TUI - new old company on the rivers

[notamermaid]

A bit of news from TUI. The 2023 winter itineraries: https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/travel-agents/tui-river-cruises-unveils-packages-for-2023

 

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TUI has new itineraries for summer 2024. Unusual is the - even for UK travellers - short Rhine Gorge Discovery: https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/ports-destinations/tui-river-cruises-launches-2024-summer-sailings-new-itineraries-and-flight

In summer even German companies do not have such short sailings normally, they are mostly offered off season and for Christmas shopping.

 

TUI like other German and European companies is adding more itineraries starting from the city Frankfurt on the Main with its major transport connections. Very convenient.

 

The Moselle valley itinerary from Frankfurt, available in 2023 and 2024, looks very nice.

 

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Quite a lot of advertising in the U.K. at the moment.

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TUI, apart from running a few more unusual itineraries that no other company offers, are now also bringing unusual activities onto their ships: https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/entertainment/tui-brings-book-club-and-stargazing-its-river-vessels

 

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Stargazing wonderful idea needs some thinking about. We’ve just stayed in a part of Wales that is a designated dark sky reserve so pretty interesting. It would seem useless though near a town or city hope it worked then maybe other companies might try it.

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A coincidence no doubt if I am correct - both Cruisecritic's Adam Coulter and Emma, a seasoned traveller on cruise ships, it seems were on the same river cruise that did not go as planned. It was an unusually rainy November and December on the Rhine so the cruise on the TUI Skyla had some hiccups. Adam reported on this here: https://www.cruisecritic.co.uk/articles/just-back-from-tui-skyla-a-christmas-markets-cruise-on-the-rhine

 

Emma reported on the flooding that changed the itinerary so her video footage complements the text and photo from Adam of Andernach (see also the link in his article). The young lady shows you around the ship and you get a good impression of what sailing TUI can be like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_-bPhPYLs

 

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