DEILMANN RESERVATIONS FOR 2007 RIVER CRUISES OPENS TODAY


European River Cruise Specialist to Offer 250 Sailings on Eight Vessels, Wide Selection of Theme Cruises, Independent Cruise Tours and “Add-ons”

NEW YORK, July 31, 2006 -- Reservations open today for booking Peter Deilmann’s 2007 European river cruises, two months earlier than in previous years. The cruise line will operate eight vessels on 250 sailings next year following the retirement of the four-star Danube Princess at the end of October.

Deilmann’s eight river ships will operate on the Danube, Rhine, Moselle, Rhône, Saône, Seine, Elbe, Vltava, Oder and other rivers from late March through mid-November 2007. Deilmann plans to replace the Danube Princess, which was sold to another company, with a five-star vessel in 2008.

Peter Deilmann will offer 10 different cruise tours in 2007 with more than 100 departures. The river cruises will have itineraries that feature special events in 2007 and new destinations. Selections will include independent cruise tours sailing the Seine, Rhône, Danube and Elbe rivers, Dutch and Belgian canals.

Deilmann will have complete cruise-tour information available in October. “Discovery Add-ons,” a concept introduced in 2006 in independent cruise tours, will once again give travelers added flexibility in selecting tour options by allowing a choice of destinations at the beginning or end of a river cruise.

In 2007, the cruise line’s special interest cruises will feature new music, golf, gardens, cycling and hiking themes. This is the third year Deilmann is offering these theme cruises on the Danube, Rhine, Rhone and Elbe.

The 96-passenger Casanova will cruise on three rivers - the Rhine, Moselle, Danube - and the Main-Danube Canal and will offer a 14-night grand cruise between Amsterdam and Budapest. The Frederic Chopin and the Katharina, both 79-passenger ships, will alternate one-week sailings from Potsdam (Berlin) and Prague on the Havel, Elbe and Vltava (Moldau) rivers.

Rhine and Moselle sailings on the 110-passenger, four-deck Heidelberg will sail to four countries calling at Rhine cities and towns that include Amsterdam, Cologne, Rüdesheim, Koblenz, Basel, Strasbourg and at the wine villages and towns of Bernkastel, Cochem and Trier on the smaller Moselle River. Ghent, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bruges and Brussels are destinations on the Dutch and Belgian canals in April on cruises that feature tulips and other flowers on roundtrip sailings from Amsterdam.

The popular seven-night Danube cruises from Passau in southern Germany, two hours from Munich, will operate on the 200-passenger Mozart, known for the largest cabins of any river vessel, 203 square feet. Both the 100-cabin Mozart and 48-cabin Casanova will sail 10- and 11-night cruises on the Danube from Passau to the Black Sea in Romania.

The 100-passenger Cezanne will cruise from Paris on the Seine offering itineraries that feature an overnight stay aboard the ship in Paris and sailings from Rouen as well as Paris. The Rhône and Saône river cruises on the 140-passenger Princesse de Provence call at towns and villages with the well-known vineyards of Côte du Nuits, Beaujolais, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Macon-Villages and other wines and the history-rich Provencal cities of Avignon and Arles. Cruises originate in Lyon and Avignon.

The Elbe River ship, the 106-passenger Dresden, will offer alternate weekly sailings from Hamburg and Dresden to Luther’s town of Wittenberg, porcelain-famous Meissen, the formal gardens of Pillnitz Palace as well as the gracious sea port city of Hamburg, historic Dresden, returned to its former glory, and excursions to the fascinating, continually changing capital of Berlin. Berlin and the Czech capital of Prague, with its elegant Old World churches and spires are the focus of the seven-night cruises of the twin ships Katharina and Frederic Chopin.

Seven of the eight river vessels sailing in the Deilmann fleet are five-star. All the ships are known for fine dining, a high level of passenger service with a 2-to-1 passenger-to-crew ratio and the elegant decor of the vessels. Readers of Travel + Leisure magazine voted Peter Deilmann Cruises one of the top 10 small ship cruises lines in the annual readers' survey of best cruise lines, which appears in the August 2006 issue.

Distribution of the 2007 Great Rivers of Europe is scheduled for October when information on the 2007 river cruises and cruise-tours become available online. Seven For 2007 Great Rivers of Europe brochures, contact Peter Deilmann Cruises at 1-800-348-8287 or e-mail pdcmail@deilmann-cruises.com. The online address is www-deilmann-cruises.com.