Avalon Waterways

Avalon Waterways pauses sailings until end of August

Avalon Waterways will suspend all sailings for an additional two months until 31 August this year. However, passengers can reschedule their travel plans in 2020, 2021 or 2022 without incurring any cancellation fees. Avalon will […]

WORDS BY Teresa Ooi . May 13 2020

Avalon Waterways reveals three new itineraries and six ports for 2021 season

Avalon Waterways has revealed six new ports and three new itinaries for their 2021 European season. The new destinations will feature ports in Croatia, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. The Danube, which is one of the […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Apr 22 2020

Spoiled for choice – an active cruise aboard the Avalon Envision

Onboard the Avalon Envision, Sue Bryant enjoys the line’s do-it-your-way ethos, especially their more active options.

WORDS BY Sue Bryant . Apr 22 2020

The new European excursions of 2020/21

Many river lines have changed itineraries and shore excursions to attract regular cruisers back to popular routes like Amsterdam to Basel next year. Guests will see new castles and cathedrals, experience more foodie tours and […]

WORDS BY Vanessa Wu . Mar 25 2020

Avalon Waterways extends their suspension of river cruises

Avalon Waterways today announced they will be extending their suspended sailings of river cruises, across all destinations, until 30 June 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. The announcement also includes all of the affiliated brands […]

WORDS BY Rose Kelly . Mar 24 2020

What Asia’s river cruise lines are doing about coronavirus

With the closure of numerous ports, multiple river cruise lines have temporarily halted sailings. Viking Cruises has suspended river cruise operations until May 1, 2020.  With the shutting down of the tourist industries in Vietnam […]

WORDS BY Rebecca Wong . Mar 23 2020

Short and suite: A luxury river cruise for just $947

The introduction of short sampler cruises has proved such a big hit in persuading younger people to try rivers that Avalon is ramping up the experiment for 2020. The luxury river line experienced a 37 […]

WORDS BY Peter Lynch . Jan 15 2020

Avalon names game show hostess as godmother of new ship

Game show hostess Meredith Vieira has been named godmother of Avalon Waterways’ new ship Avalon View scheduled to sail the Danube River in 2020. She will christen the 166-passenger Avalon View in Ybbs, Austria on […]

WORDS BY Teresa Ooi . Nov 13 2019