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Casual Barge Biking Cruises in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France

The cruises listed below are for those passengers that are looking for a very laid back experience at an affordable price.  These cruises are multi language.  Your cabin consists of your own private toilet and shower, though you take care of cleaning your room.  You are given clean linens during the cruise and you make your own bed.  Lunch is a packed bag each day.  There is no formal meals such as a Captain's Farewell dinner.  No alcoholic beverages included in the rates.

These are a great value and great fun if the above features appeal to you.  

3 Country Mosele Tour

8 Days
Metz to Cochem

July 25,  August 1, October 10, 17, 2009

Individual Booking - € 1040 per person
Charter € 21,840,-  for 24 passengers

August 8, 15, October 3,  2009

Individual Booking Only - € 1040 per person

Rate includes:  8 days, breakfast, lunch package, dinner, bed linen, bike rental, tour guide.

You can book this trip as a bike & barge trip or as a cruise. If you book a bike & barge trip, you can make a bike tour of 20 – 40 km per day, accompanied by an experienced guide. If you book a cruise, you sail with the barge and you use public transport, accompanied by another experienced guide.

Itinerary: Metz –Konigsmacher – Remich - Saarburg –Trier – Bernkastel - Cochem

Highlights:  Cathedral of Metz – Maginot line - Saarburg - Porta Nigra in Trier- marketplace Bernkastel - fine white wines

The countryside on both banks of the Mosel are splendid, the cool wines taste deliciously, the picturesque little towns have rich histories and the conditions for cycling are excellent indeed. Here you fine the perfect mix of ingedients for a fine bike and barge vacation. This tour takes us through a wonderful, varying region.  We follow the river Mosel, partly in France, partly in Luxembourg, and partly in Germany.  The tour starts in Metz, France, with her splendid cathedral. We bike through the charming French countryside with welcoming villages, where the inhabitants are proud of their sweet, smooth wines and golden “Mirabellen” liqueur (plum liqueur) and we visit the fort Hackenberg, important part of the Maginot line. We continue into Luxembourg where we spend the night in Remich. In Germany we will first follow the river Saar to charming Saarburg, with the stunning waterfalls in the city center. Then, of course, there is Trier, the oldest city of Germany with the Porta Nigra dating from the first century after Christ. After Trier we follow the Mosel downstreams along the endless vineyards and the enchanting old cities Bernkastel and Cochem. It goes without saying that we will taste the local wines whenever we can.