What is a Hotel Barge Vacation?
Luxury hotel barges are smaller vessels, accommodating a minimum of 6 passengers, maximum 50 passengers. They may include gourmet meals with wine, shore excursions, an “open bar” , and bicycles for the use of the guests. These vessels cruise on small waterways – mostly on canals, such as the Nivernais in Burgundy, France’s most famous wine country, the Canal du Midi in the south of France, or through the tulip fields of Holland or along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland; but sometimes they cruise on rivers, such as the Shannon in Ireland, the Rhone and Soane in France and the Thames in England.
