{"id":6730,"date":"2024-07-18T06:52:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T06:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tui.co.uk\/press\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2024-07-18T06:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T06:52:27","slug":"tui-river-cruises-debuts-festive-danube-itineraries-and-new-four-night-sailings-for-winter-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tui.co.uk\/press\/tui-river-cruises-debuts-festive-danube-itineraries-and-new-four-night-sailings-for-winter-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TUI River Cruises debuts festive Danube itineraries and new four-night sailings for winter 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>18 July 2024<\/strong> \u2013 TUI River Cruises debuts new sailings down the river Danube for winter 2025 and new four-night shorter sailings. From November 2025, guests can sail down the Danube on TUI Maya with four and five-night itineraries available over the Christmas and New Year. Four-night sailings will also be available on TUI Isla and TUI Skyla on the Rhine so customers can experience the festive Christmas markets across a range of European cities. The winter itineraries will go on sale from <strong>18<sup>th<\/sup> July 2024,<\/strong> offering <strong>15<\/strong> sailings across the entire fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The TUI Maya winter sailings will include festive itineraries such as the <strong>\u2018Yuletide Delights\u2019, a <\/strong>five-night sailing visiting Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava; a<strong> \u2018Festive Danube Delights\u2019 <\/strong>five-night sailing in Austria and Slovakia and a <strong>\u2018Austrian Christmas Flavours\u2019<\/strong> four-night sailing in Vienna, D\u00fcrnstein, Melk and Linz, to get customers into the Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-night sailings will also be available over the festive period, so customers can celebrate Christmas Day\u00a0 onboard TUI Maya\u2019s, <strong>\u2018Danube Christmas Treasures\u2019<\/strong> itinerary, stopping in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia; and welcome in the New Year on its <strong>\u2018A Danube New Year\u2019<\/strong> sailing in European cities Vienna, Budapest, Esztergom in Hungary, Bratislava and D\u00fcrnstein in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The new shorter four-night sailing will also be available on TUI Isla where customers can feel the festive cheer onboard the <strong>\u2018Christmas Carols &amp; Castles\u2019<\/strong> itinerary, stopping in festive German cities: D\u00fcsseldorf, Cologne, R\u00fcdesheim and Koblenz. TUI Skyla will also offer festive sailings with a new four-night stay on its <strong>\u2018Gl\u00fchwein on the Rhine\u2019<\/strong> itinerary sailing in Cologne, D\u00fcsseldorf and Koblenz.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there will be two seven-night festive sailings on the Rhine onboard TUI Isla with <strong>\u2018North Rhine No\u00ebl\u2019<\/strong> itinerary visiting festive European market cities across the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Plus, TUI Skyla\u2019s <strong>\u2018Festive Fairy Tale\u2019 <\/strong>sailing in picturesque German market cities: Cologne, R\u00fcdesheim, Speyer, Kehl (for Strasbourg), Mainz and Koblenz.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can enter 2026 admiring the fireworks over the Rhine in Koblenz in Germany onboard TUI Isla <strong>\u2018A New Year Sail Away\u2019<\/strong> itinerary, sailing through Germany and the Netherlands. As well as TUI Skyla\u2019s <strong>\u2018A New Year on the Rhine\u2019<\/strong> itinerary starting the New Year in Cologne, sailing through known cultural favourites in the Netherlands and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The newest ship in the fleet, TUI Al Horeya, will return for winter 2025 sailings available from November 2025 with exclusive flights from London Gatwick and Manchester Airport to Luxor. Customers seeking the sun can sail the famous river Nile with its <strong>\u2018Legends of the Nile\u2019<\/strong> seven-night sailings. The sailings will begin and end in Luxor and will visit Egyptian hotspots of Edfu, Kom Ombo and Aswan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katy Berzins, Head of River Cruises, TUI River Cruises, says:<em> \u201c<\/em><\/strong><em>We\u2019re excited to be <\/em><em>launching new winter sailings down the Danube for our winer 2025 programme. We\u2019re giving customers the chance to explore even more cities during the festive period for the very first time. By introducing the new four-night sailings down the Danube and Rhine, it will offer a chance for new to cruise customers to experience our fleet for the first time for a shorter duration.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 July 2024 \u2013 TUI River Cruises debuts new sailings down the river Danube for winter 2025 and new four-night shorter sailings. From November 2025, guests can sail down the Danube on TUI Maya with four and five-night itineraries available over the Christmas and New Year. 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