ARosa will sail the Seine from 2017

[notamermaid]

The ITB (Internationale Tourismus-Börse) Berlin earlier this month had some interesting annoucements as regards the cruising and river cruising markets. Among them Arosa's plans for the near future.

 

ARosa is one of the companies not sailing the Seine. I mentioned this in the thread about Viking's problems with their dock in LePecq a few days ago. Arosa announced at the ITB that from 2017 they will offer the Seine and the cruises are already in the online catalogue. The cruises will be 3, 4 and 7 nights. They may sound short but appeal to German holidaymakers especially when the company offers them on those long weekend-breaks we have in Germany due to some public holidays.

 

Paris is only six to eight hours away by car or train for millions of Germans.

 

ARosa says they are reacting to customer demand and will shift the Rosa Viva from the Rhine to the Seine. This leaves a void in the Rhine itineraries that they are going to fill with a newbuilt.

 

The long 7 nights tour will be from Paris to Caudebec-En-Caux.

 

This is were the subject becomes interesting for North-American river cruisers.

 

The Arosa Viva is a ship almost identical to the Viking longships in size and max. passengers: 135m by 11.4m, 202 passengers

 

Viking Rinda: 135m by 11.45m, 190 passengers

 

The shorter vessels of several companies dock in Paris itself, at least two travel as far as Honfleur, further than Caudebec-En-Caux, they are Scenic and CroisiEurope. You may find more if you research.

 

Arosa, like Viking, cannot sail as far as Honfleur.

 

Viking docks in the Paris suburb of LePecq.

 

It remains to be seen where Arosa will be allocated a berth by the Parisian authorities.

 

notamermaid