The vessel MS Stolzenfels takes the visitors to a three-hour Advent Evening Dinner Cruise, starting from November 2010. This is an opportunity to the visitors to celebrate Christmas in the German style, even before December. Dinner include local specialties in three courses, such as beef bouillon with root vegetables and small semolina dumplings and roast pork with onions in a red wine sauce served with kohlrabi (German turnip) and potato croquettes. visitors can expect live music and candlelight on board, according to Viator Tours.
Premicon Queen is a luxury five-star vessel, which started to tour the Rhine waters in 2008. In an article published in "The Daily Telegraph," Colin Nicholson describes the all-inclusive experience: "Everything is lined with dark wood, there are a library, a spa with a hairdresser, and lounges and lobbies...After dinner, we went to the ship's 'theatron' to listen to a soprano, and waltzed under Cologne's railway bridge." This cruise takes visitors to almost the entire navigable length of the Rhine between Cologne and Amsterdam, with three different itineraries, reports Premicon Queen website.
Ama Waterways organizes a New Year Rhine tour departing from the German city of Nuremberg and passing through Bamberg, Rudesheim and others. The luxurious vessel MS Amadolce, launched in 2009, arrives in Cologne on New Year's eve. Visitors have time to explore the city on foot or using the complimentary bicycles before New Year's Eve dinner is served on board, under the fireworks that seems to set the waters of the Rhine alight.
