Welcome to Basel. We’ll meet you at the airport and transfer you to your ship.* After boarding, enjoy free time and get acquainted with the city.

After breakfast, join a tour of this multi-cultural city. See its historic Middle Bridge, cathedral and steep winding streets. Then, tour one of the city’s many art museums. Enjoy afternoon free time. Lunch and dinner are served aboard.

This morning, arrive in Breisach, gateway to the Black Forest. After breakfast, enjoy a motorcoach excursion through the area’s mountain landscape, meadows and dense forests and see a cuckoo clock-making demonstration. You have free time this afternoon. Or, join our optional guided walking tour of Colmar, a quaint Alsatian town. Dine aboard and dock overnight.

After breakfast take a guided tour of Strasbourg. See the Place d’Austerlitz and European Parliament, and enjoy a guided visit inside the city’s famed cathedral. Free time allows you to further explore the old section of this French-German city. Dinner aboard; cruise through the night.

After breakfast, take a motorcoach to Heidelberg, home to Germany’s oldest university founded in 1386. Your guided tour features imposing Heidelberg Castle, a red sandstone ruin overlooking the Neckar River. Continue with a walking tour through the Old Town and marketplace. Return to your ship for afternoon cruising. Lunch and dinner aboard. Dock late in Rüdesheim. Enjoy free time to stroll along the Drosselgasse, a pedestrian-only street lined with restaurants, bars and shops. Dock overnight.

After breakfast, take a mini-train to tour Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Museum. Following free time, eat lunch aboard as you cruise through the afternoon past legendary Lorelei Rock. This afternoon, visit 700-year-old Marksburg Castle and tour its museum. Return to your ship in Koblenz, at the intersection of the Rhine and Moselle. You have free time before dinner aboard. Sail this evening to Cochem.

After breakfast, take a walking tour through this quaint village. See its medieval town gate and marketplace. Then, visit a winery and taste some local vintages. Return to your ship for lunch; cruise through the afternoon, arriving in Cologne tonight. Enjoy free time; remain docked overnight.

After breakfast, your walking tour takes you past St. Martin’s Church to Cologne’s Old Town. Your guided tour visits the magnificent Gothic cathedral. Then tour a local brewery and sample the beer. Lunch and dinner are served aboard, but dockside there are many taverns, cafés and shops for you to explore. Depart late tonight.

Arrive during breakfast in Arnhem and join a motorcoach excursion to the Dutch Royal Family’s former summer residence, Paleis Het Loo.† Tour the palace’s lavish rooms; then stroll through the picture-perfect gardens fashioned after Versailles. After lunch aboard, explore this quaint town rich in World War II history on your own. Or, join the optional battlefield tour visiting the site of Operation Market Garden and the Airborne Museum. Dine aboard. Evening departure.

This morning, enjoy a glass-topped canal cruise past merchant houses and the famed Skinny Bridge. Visit the Van Gogh Museum and explore works by the famed artist. Enjoy free time. Lunch and dinner are aboard. Dock overnight.