In the wide world of cruising, where increasingly large and opulent vessels are bound for new luxurious coastal berths, perhaps the next trend is not something newer and bigger— but rather an option ...

Simon and Garfunkel’s “59th Street Bridge Song” and the lyrics, “Slow down, you move too fast,” pop into mind as I gaze across Burgundy’s pastoral landscape from the deck of my hotel barge. We are ...

SMALL, flat-bottomed and slow-moving, hotel barges can access some of Europe’s most beautiful rural areas, navigating 19th-century canals that are off-limits to larger boats. Carrying a handful of ...

Europe is famed for the idyllic Christmas markets that overtake many of its historic cities and villages every December. I'm always tempted by the well-edited videos of these storybook Christmas towns ...

European Waterways celebrates the historic launch of their New Champagne Cruise, Kir Royale, an elegant 8 passenger luxury hotel barge, cruising the River Marne and the Canal latéral à la Marne in ...

European Waterways is offering two opera-themed cruises aboard La Bella Vita, a 20-passenger hotel barge. Participants will spend their first night of the seven-night tour in Padua, Italy, from which ...

European Waterways has announced the completion of their major refurbishment project on several of their luxury hotel barges for 2011. The 12-passenger hotel barge in Burgundy, La Belle Epoque, has ...