READERS OF THREE TRAVEL MAGAZINES ONCE AGAIN RATE DEILMANN RIVER AND OCEAN CRUISES ONE OF THE BEST


Condé Nast Traveler and Travel+Leisure Magazines Rank Line In Top 10; “Best River Cruise” Award from Porthole Magazine

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2006 – For the seventh year, Peter Deilmann River and Ocean Cruises ranks as one of the 10 best small-ship cruise lines in the annual readers’ survey conducted by Condé Nast Traveler magazine, a distinction the cruise line also attained in Travel+Leisure’s annual “World’s Best” survey. At the same time, Deilmann Cruises once again won the Readers’ Choice award for “Best River Cruise” from Porthole Cruise magazine.

The Condé Nast Traveler "Gold Award" winners appear in this month’s issue of the magazine and the Porthole “Best” award winners are announced in the December issue. Travel+Leisure’s "World’s Best" awards were published in August.

The only privately owned and operated river cruise line, Peter Deilmann has been voted one of the 10 best small-ship cruise lines in the Condé Nast readers’ surveys since 1999. Close to 30,000 readers of the magazine responded to this year’s questionnaire on cruise lines, airlines, cities, islands, hotels and resorts. Subscribers judge cruise lines on activities/facilities, cabins, crew/service, design/layout, food/dining and itineraries. Among river vessels, Deilmann ships are known for their elegant style, cruise itineraries and the highest level of service with passenger-to-crew ratios of 2.5 to 1.

Deilmann’s eight river ships sail the Danube, Rhine, Rhône, Seine, Saône, Moselle, Neckar, Elbe, Oder, Havel and Vltava rivers, the Main-Danube Canal and Dutch and Belgian canals. The line’s ocean-going MS Deutschland sails to destinations throughout Europe and the world. Deilmann is a pioneer in European river cruising and now in river theme cruises offering music, golf, gardens, cycling, wellness and hiking cruise programs. Best sellers are the classical music cruises on the 204-passenger river ship MV Mozart and the 513-passenger ocean liner MS Deutschland.

In 2007, music cruises on the Mozart from Passau to Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava are April 15-22 and Oct. 7-14, with performances both onboard and ashore, while the onboard gala classical music cruise on the Deutschland is April 21-May 14 on a Mediterranean and Atlantic sailing from Venice to Bordeaux.

The eight ships in the river fleet include the five-star Mozart with the largest cabins - 203 sq. ft. - of any river ship in the world and the five-star MV Heidelberg, the newest vessel built in 2004, offering cabins of 190 sq ft. Deilmann ships in France are the 100-passenger Cezanne, which sails the Seine from Paris, and the 140-passenger Princesse de Provence, which sails the Rhône and Saône rivers between Lyon and Avignon. The other five-star vessels are the 96-passenger Casanova, the two 79-passenger Frederic Chopin and Katharina von Bora and the 106-passenger Dresden.

A pioneer in the river cruise industry in the 1980s, founder Peter Deilmann was the first to design and build ships that reflected the style and amenities of ocean-going cruise ships but focused on the unique specifications of river cruising. The line continues to be a leader in luxury cruising and a family operation headed by his two daughters, Gisa and Hedda Deilmann. Based in the Baltic town of Neustadt in Holstein, the company was founded in 1968 and has had its North America headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, since 1995.

In 1998, entrepreneur Peter Deilmann built the 513-passenger MS Deutschland that sails around the world in the grand style of ocean liners of the past. In 2007, the ship’s ports of call include South America, Western Europe, the Mediterranean, the Baltic and North seas, the Near East, India, Singapore, China and Hong Kong.

For information and copies of the 2007 Great Rivers of Europe brochure and the Grand Hotel Voyages of the MS Deutschland, contact Peter Deilmann Cruises at 1-800-348-8287 or by e-mail at pdcmail@deilmann-cruises.com. Online, log on to www.deilmann-cruises.com.