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onboardreview
Holidays on
the
AmaKristina
"
Carla Hunt
As a young girl growing up
in Dresden on the banks
of the Elbe River, I never
dreamed I would have a
ship named after me.
"
What more fitting place to be: Sailing up
the Rhine River on a Christmas Markets
cruise tucked into an elegantly cozy cabin
aboard the 156-guest AmaKristina, where,
on checking my e-mails, I learn that
AmaWaterways captured not only the
Gold award for "Best River Cruise" in the
Recommend Readers' Choice Awards," but also
"Best in Cruise Cuisine." Our readers are
blessed with excellent taste.
Indeed, AmaKristina is a visual delight:
Not your usual muted nautical blues and
beiges, but a warmly elegant melange of Art
Nouveau styling and a flower-garden-like
palette of color, accented with smartly placed
reproductions of Gustav Klimt artworks. The
season's Christmas decorations that decked
the ship's halls were as artistic as NYC's
Saks Fifth Avenue windows. One evening,
guests trimmed the uber-tree with ornaments
of gingerbread, like those we would find
-- Kristin Karst, Executive Vice
President/Co-Owner, AmaWaterways
among the dazzling Christmas markets
ahead: Cologne; Heidelberg; Strasbourg.
Tree trimming was just one of the onboard
activities designed to, under the magic
wand of cruise director Mariana Lopez, turn
132 guests from a dozen countries and five
continents-unusual for a river cruise-into
one big festive family.
The core of passenger activities and
accommodations revolves around three
decks, connected by marble staircases and a
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handsome glass elevator. My spiffy stateroom
(210 sq. ft.) came with a big comfy bed,
good reading lights, complimentary WiFi,
infotainment system and flat-panel TV.
The well-lit marble bathroom, meanwhile,
featured fluffy towels and a square-shaped
shower that gave plenty of room to scrub up
under the multi-jet shower head. As in most
staterooms, the signature amenity is "twin
balconies," a step-out balcony adjacent to an
interior French balcony. While there's not
much stepping out on a December Rhine
cruise, these balconies combine into a glass
wall of nonstop panoramas. Well, not quite
nonstop-with the dramatic increase in
river cruisers, there's a matching decrease in
overnight parking spaces, resulting in vessels
tying up for the night side-by-side, two or
three deep. Yes, dockside you often keep your
drapes closed.
To meet the growing demands of the family
market, this generation of AmaWaterways
ships offers a newly designed rooming
configuration featuring connecting cabins
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