Cruise Traveller Partners with AmaWaterways

Save A$3196 per couple on French river cruise and stay three nights for free in Paris Book by December 30, 2024

Australian small ship specialist, Cruise Traveller, now represents 66 boutique, expedition and river cruise operators around the world, following its latest partnership with leading river cruise brand, AmaWaterways.

And to mark the new affiliation, Cruise Traveller has released an exclusive river cruise package with AmaWaterways in France that offers savings of A$3196 per couple, a free, three-night stay in Paris and free, skip-the-queue tours of two of Paris’s biggest attractions – the Louvre and Palace of Versailles.

Family-owned and operated for 22 years and headquartered in the US, AmaWaterways offers luxury river cruises aboard 31 custom-designed ships on Europe’s major rivers and on Asia’s Mekong River, Africa’s Chobe River, the Nile in Egypt and from 2025, Colombia’s Magdalena River. Modern, spacious and elegant, AmaWaterways’ ships welcome an average of just 150 guests and boast plush lounges and bars, pools or whirlpools, fine dining restaurants serving locally sourced cuisine, gym and included wellness activities such as guided cycle and hiking tours ashore.

“At Cruise Traveller, we love to share with Australians beautiful journeys aboard smaller vessels and the superior experiences offered on spectacular rivers around the world by AmaWaterways are exactly what we specialise in,” said Cruise Traveller Managing Director, Joe O’Sullivan. “We look forward to bringing to the Australian market a constant stream of packages and product with AmaWaterways that showcase amazing places and offer amazing value.”

Cruise Traveller’s exclusive, new 10-night ‘Seine Serenity – Paris and Normandy’ cruise and stay package starts August 18, 2025, with a free, three-night stay in Paris and free, guided, skip-the-lineup tours of Paris’ famous
Louvre Museum – home of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa painting –  and the lavish Palace of Versailles.

Guests then board AmaWaterways’ 144-guest river ship, AmaLyra, for a seven-night return journey from Paris to the Normandy coast and back. AmaLyra offers a restaurant, specialty dining restaurant, lounge, fitness room, whirlpool on the sun deck and a fleet of bikes.

The itinerary will enable guests to visit Monet’s famous gardens in Giverny, the colourful harbour town of Honfleur, the beaches of Normandy where WW2’s D-Day Invasion occurred and the place in Rouen where Joan of Arc achieved martyrdom.

Cruise Traveller’s 10-night ‘Seine Serenity – Paris and Normandy’ package beginning August 18, 2025, is available from A$6137 per person, twin-share, in a river-view stateroom  – a saving of A$1598 per person. Fare includes immersive tours ashore, hikes and bike tours, speciality dining, onboard beverages with lunch and dinner daily, sparkling wine with breakfast daily, complimentary cocktail hour each day and onboard gratuities. The savings, free three-night hotel stay in Paris and free Paris tours are for bookings made by December 30, 2024.   Flights from Australia are additional.