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8 Ways a Canal Barge Cruise is Different to a Regular River Cruise
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2024
- What are the main differences between a European canal hotel barge cruise and a river cruise? I think there are 8 key things you need to know that makes a canal cruise different to a river cruise. By understanding how they differ you can better decide is a river cruise or canal hotel barge cruise is best for your next European river cruising vacation
Note: I travelled as a guest of CroisiEurope on a 6-night hotel barge cruise in France before making this video Croisieurope had no input into the opinions or content of this video.
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Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 60+ cruises.
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My mother-in-law rented a small barge in France with 6 friends. They ate breakfast on the barge then bicycled to a preset spot to meet the barge for lunch. After lunch they biked to their dinner spot, and spent the night.
They had a chef making amazing food, and a small crew taking care of them.
I haven’t been on a river cruise but did a barge cruise on the Loire river in France some years ago. It was so relaxing, the tempo just right. Sometimes my land tours leave me feeling exhausted but not this one. I can recommend this way to travel. Thank you for your very informative cruise info. I’m looking forward to my first ocean cruise to Alaska next year.
Thanks for watching! Great destination choice for your first ocean cruise
I did not know that those kind of Cruises exist but i have to say your Video made me very interested in trying one out
Freighter cruises too. Look it up. Another option. Can go a long way .
The barge cruise is so relaxing especially you sit on the deck and enjoy Southern France sunshine sailing by the vineyard along the canal, my best memory ever!
I don't know if I will ever get to do any cruises but I really appreciate this, I feel better informed in case I do find myself in the position for a trip like this!! Thank you so much.
“How is a barge different from a river cruise?” would be a better title (in the thumbnail).🙂 Great video as always, many thanks Gary!
Like it. Have changed the thumbnail :-) Thanks for that!
I was not familiar with this, very interesting!!!
Thanks for watching !
My husband and I are thinking about this very cruise in a couple of years! Thank you for posting this video
Thank you for the content. Great info that has directed me to a river cruise instead. 20 years from now probably a canal cruise :)
Thanks for watching. Good to hear it helped you decide which was best for you!
Thanks, Gary. I was wondering if you were going to cover this interesting option, as I remember a travel documentary from some years back titled “Barging Thru Europe”, which was quite interesting.
I understand the excursions and alcohol,etc are included in all the river cruises and there is less people on the cruise, but it is extremely pricey in something like four times the cost as a regular cruise ship charges and has less amenities. What is your explanation to believing it is worth the price that justifies the cruise lines cost?
Great advice, as usual - many thanks
Thanks for watching! Good to hear you found it interesting :-)
There are around 45 hotel barges in France, 2 in Scotland, I each in England, Ireland and Italy. So there's quite a choice, and they vary hugely in size (number of cabins/guests), luxury level and price, and where in France (for example) they cruise - and there are a couple of barges that cruise on the River Rhone for example. Because everything is included and food, drink, excursions are all top-quality (5-star or better) cost comparisons with river (or ocean) cruising are interesting even if the headline price is expensive. Gary's CrosiEurope cruise was great, as I would have expected, but the fleet is slightly more mid-market than others are. Check out the French Waterways channel; we're world experts.
I would love to try barge cruise however am currently in a wheelchair so I fear that it wouldn’t be possible! We did do a two week river cruise in 2013 and it was amazing, however so busy and I really wish there was just like you say half a day to just sit and enjoy the scenery and relax…!
It would be a big challenge. However, on the Deborah barge there was an accessible cabin for wheelchair travellers
Really? So exciting...I will have to research that possibility! Thx...
It sounds like you definitely prefer river cruises over barge cruises. But the characteristics of barge cruises that sounded like they were meant to be drawbacks struck me as positives. Having viewed your video, I think that a barge cruise, for me, would be a much more pleasant experience overall.
One aspect I will like to know is barge more flexible when their is low level of water.
Another great video… However such a lot of this stuff was absolutely obvious… Smaller boats barges cannot provide the facilities of all of those huge cruise ships… I much prefer a smaller boat but had an unfortunate experience on a barge
Great content as always, thanks!
But is there a hot tub pool?
Thx. Cheers. Very kewl.😎
Are the town they dock at very interesting, any cycling tours?
They carry bikes on them so lots of cycling opportunities
That was very interesting. Did you see somebody having a different menu than the rest? as vegan, who finds it ok to have some milk in coffee, but definitely wouldn't eat a cheese course and no dessert because of the sugar, I wonder, if that kind of diet would challenge a french cook? even, if I would say, I can go without dessert. just give me an extra salad or a bigger portion of the main course, most cooks don't know, how to deal with vegans. I wonder, if it would be too much to ask for?
It is fine as long as they know in advance and cater for it. On our cruise this was the case
@@tipsfortravellers ok. that's good to know. thank you
So, basically, a River cruise boat has 3 decks.
A barge cruise boat has 2 decks and so can go in shallower waterways and pass under lower bridges, but can't carry many people or supplies, so the meal choices are far more limited and less to do on the boat.
Most modern cruise ships look about like a barge carrying a mid-rise apartment complex.
They do :-)
I luv the small ships.
Tips For Travellers They look like small towns on boats.
Are these old barges that are converted to tourism?
Do they offer barge cruise options in Australia?
River cruises on waterways like the Murray, houseboats on places like Gippsland Lakes, Lake Eildon, some NSW estuaries and some other rivers, but no barge cruises in Oz.
@@Dave_Sisson Thank you. I'm going to have to go on one soon. These sound like good options and cost effective.
Do you use a drone for these sky shots?
Yes. A DJI Spark ⚡️
Do you launch on the ship or do you have to go on land.