Tauck has announced a new eight-day river cruise for 2025, celebrating the traditional Christmas markets and other holiday happenings along the Seine River in France.
“The Seine: Holiday Magic” itinerary begins in Paris, where guests will board Tauck’s MS Sapphire riverboat, spending three nights and two days in the city. Highlights in Paris will include visits to the city’s Christmas markets, among those the one in the Tuileries Garden, where guests can shop for local crafts and sample hot mulled wine, roasted chestnuts, sausages, cheeses, chocolates and more. While in Paris, guests will also have a choice of visits to discover medieval works of art at the Cluny Museum or explore the city’s Gothic Sainte-Chapelle. This royal chapel was conceived by Louis IX to house his personal collection of holy relics and is renowned for its 13th-century stained glass windows.
Other cities visited on the eight-day itinerary will include Rouen, Les Andelys and Vernon, with highlights along the way including a private tour and a holiday cocktail party at Château de Bizy, which was built in 1740 and is still privately owned by a descendant of Napoleon. Guests will also enjoy a private lunch and afternoon tea at Château Vaux-le-Vicomte, also decorated for the season, with time to explore the 100-room moated palace and formal gardens.
In Normandy, guests will have further opportunities to revel in the holiday spirit when they shop for traditional treats at the Christmas markets. The following day, guests will have their choice of guided visits, to either Normandy’s historic D-Day beaches or the Rouen Fine Arts Museum.
The cruise’s many shore excursions will be complemented by seasonal décor and holiday merry-making aboard the MS Sapphire, including musical entertainment, interactive holiday activities with a local artist and more. Tauck will operate five departures of “The Seine: Holiday Magic” next year.
The new journey on the Seine River is Tauck’s fifth Christmas market-themed river cruise and its first in France; the company already sails two holiday cruises on the Danube, including a Tauck Bridges journey designed just for families, besides holiday cruises on the Rhine and the waterways of Belgium and Holland. The new Seine cruise is also the latest in the continued expansion of Tauck’s river cruising presence in France.
For more information, visit www.tauck.com.
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