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TourCrafters offers 2- to 10-day European river cruises

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LIBERTYVILLE, IL — What could be a better celebration of spring than an excursion to Keukenhof — the famed Dutch garden that displays the glorious colors of spring with millions of bulbs in flower — on an 8-day cruise through Dutch and Belgian waterways? TourCrafters is offering this Lüftner river cruise on April 29, starting at US$1,875 per person, double occupancy, in an outside cabin.

Lüftner Cruises is a well-regarded Austrian river cruise line that's little known in the US. It's Amsterdam to Amsterdam itinerary includes the picturesque fishing village of Volendam, Arnhem, site of the WWII battle (with an optional excursion to the Airborne Museum or the Kröller-Müller Museum and its van Goghs); Middelburg; city tours of medieval Ghent and Bruges; Antwerp (with an optional tour of Brussels); Kinderdijk with its 16th-century windmills; and the university city of Utrecht (with an optional excursion to Keukenhof and its acres of tulips).

Among other choices are an 8-day Classical Rhine Cruise from Amsterdam to Basel on October 19 starting at US$1,156 per person; an 8-day Danube Discovery Cruise from Nuremberg to Budapest on May 24, June 26, and September 28, starting at US$1,393; a 10-day Prague and Danube Cruise with three departures, starting at US$1,590; and a 10-day Blue Danube Adventure (to seven countries) on September 20, starting at US$2,365. These and three 8-day music cruises on the Rhine and Danube rivers are all Lüftner Cruises.

TourCrafters also offers shorter cruises of 2 to 10 days on the Premicon Queen: Basel to Mannheim, Mainz to Cologne, Cologne to Basel, Basel to Cologne, Cologne to Frankfurt, Regensburg to Munich, Frankfurt to Regensburg, and Cologne to Regensburg — all on the Rhine and Main-Danube Canal. The Premicon Queen also features 4- to 7-day cruises on the Danube as far as Vienna and Budapest. Prices range from US$546 to US$2,226 per person, double, in a mini-suite on the main deck.

For more information, visit www.tourcrafters.com, click "The Best of Europe brochure," then click "River Cruises." For reservations, call 800-482-5995.

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