Shore Excursion Options

One of my favorite things about sailing with AMA Waterways, is the care that they take to provide a wide variety of shore excursion options. Each day travelers have several options. Guided walking tours are offered with gentle, regular, or active walking styles. Biking excursions and longer hikes are also common.

In addition to these standards, AMA goes out of their way to provide unique extras such as a gondola ride, a holiday train to the town center, wine tasting in a family owned wine cellar, a canal cruise or other tasting tours (coffee, beer, etc).

  

There are no minimum numbers for the tours and I've been the only two travelers on an excursion or traveled with a larger group. Walking tours are typically broken into groups of no more than 15-20 travelers.

All our local guides were exceptional. I was so impressed with their knowledge, ability to communicate, humor, patience, and understanding. Entrance fees were also included as well as little extras like a coupon to try a free gluhwein in the Christmas market. 

My daughter's favorite excursion was a visit to the museum of mechanical musical instruments, a collection of hundreds of self playing instruments spanning several centuries. Our fantastic guide operated a variety of them for us to hear and provided incredible context into how the collection was built and continues to be maintained (not an easy task as some of the instruments require skills that have been nearly lost, with only a handful of people in the world still able to perform them.