Experience the Danube “Rudi’s Way” with AmaWaterways

Experience the Danube “Rudi’s Way” with AmaWaterways
Edited by Travel Weekly


AmaWaterways has announced a new Best of the Danube itinerary in honour of AmaWaterways President Rudi Schreiner. Starting and ending in Budapest, there will be 15 departures in 2025 and 14 in 2026.

Special early-season sailings (Schreiner’s favourite time to see the Danube) are departing on 23 February and 2 March, 2025 and 8, 15, 22 February and 1 March, 2026 on AmaWaterways’ Flagship, the award-winning AmaMagna.

Later season departures in 2025 and 2026 will sail on AmaBella, AmaReina, AmaViola and AmaLea.

Schreiner—a lifelong advocate of river cruising and lauded industry innovator—began his deep connection with rivers growing up in Vienna, alongside the Danube. So, when asked to pick a favourite route, he answered with ease, “The Danube flows through the heart of Europe, offering a river cruise that combines the charm of three capital cities—Budapest, Vienna, and Bratislava—with the stunning beauty of the Wachau Valley.”

“These cities are close to each other, ensuring short cruising distances and ample time to explore. Vienna, with its rich history, classical music scene, charming wine villages, coffee houses, and imperial sites like Schönbrunn and Hofburg Palace, is a highlight. Easily accessible with roundtrip flights to Budapest, it’s a year-round itinerary, ideal for any season.”

The seven-night itinerary takes guests through the capital cities of three countries – Austria’s Vienna, Slovakia’s Bratislava and Hungary’s Budapest – spending full days in each. Excursions are plentiful with bike and walking tours, food tasting opportunities, visits to cathedrals and palaces, hikes, and time to freely explore some of Europe’s most popular sites – without the crowds.

Highlights include sampling the traditional foods and beers of Slovakia; touring the UNESCO site of Melk Abbey, one of the world’s most famous active monasteries dating back to the 11th century; a thrilling guided bike ride along the romantic Danube Canal and through the city, heading to Vienna’s famous Ringstrasse Boulevard; and exploring the many treasures of Budapest with the city’s Castle District and breathtaking panorama views on the Buda side and the neo-Gothic Hungarian Parliament Building on the Pest side.

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