INCLUDED TOUR FEATURES • Round trip scheduled airfare • 1 night in Geneva, Switzerland • 7 nights aboard the NEW 5-star Amadeus Provence • Superb dining with all meals included during your cruise • 24 hour coffee station • Quality red & white wines from Europe's great wine regions with every dinner onboard the ship • Welcome Dinner • Captain's Gala Dinner • Daily onboard music performances • Fuel Surcharges, air and port taxes • City Tours: Geneva, Maconnais Excursion & Wine Museum, Beaune & Burgundy Excursion, Lyon City Tour, Avignon & Aries City Walk DAY 1•TUES • OCT 23: all "must see" sights. You will love Geneva! DAY 5 •SAT• OCT 27: USA-GENEVA Later this afternoon, you will enjoy the CHALON SUR SAONE-TOURNUS beautiful scenery en route to Lyon, France Depart the USA for Switzerland on an via the Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, an alpine This morning on our included Burgundy overnight flight. (in-flight meals) highway, spectacular in both scenery and Excursion to Beaune you will enjoy a engineering. In Lyon, we will board the scenic drive along France's Burgundy DAY 2 • WED • OCT 24: 5-star Amadeus Provence and settle into wine trail through Pommard, Volnay and GENEVA your outstanding accommodations. Enjoy a Meursault. In Beaune, the wine capital of Cocktail Reception and Welcome Aboard Burgundy, you will enjoy a guided tour of Upon arrival, you will be greeted by an Dinner later this evening. (B,D) the beautiful Hotel-Dieu, founded as a Adelman representative and transferred hospice in 1443. The rooms overflow with to your centrally located hotel. Geneva is treasures: statues, furniture, pottery, surrounded by the Alps and lies at the DAY 4 • FRI • OCT 26: paintings and tapestries. The kitchen has Southern tip of Lake Geneva (Lac MACON been restored to its 19th century state. Leman). This Swiss city, known as the Later, enjoy a wine tasting experience at "City of Peace," is the headquarters of Our included excursion, Maconnais with one of Beaune's famous cellars. Enjoy a the European United Nations of the Wine Museum, will depart from Macon free afternoon onboard or join the International Red Cross. The city is a and we will make our way through the optional Excursionto Brancion and global hub for diplomacy and banking vineyards, past castles and the stately Cormatin with a visit to the Castle of with a heavy French Influence from the homes gracing the area. A highlight of Cormatin built between 1605 and 1629. language to dining to the beautiful this tour is the visit to Georges Optional tour participants will rejoin the gardens. Enjoy your free day exploring Duboeuf's Hameau du Vin. In the unique ship at Tournus for dinner. (B,L,D) the city. setting of this 19th-century railway station, you will marvel at the wine DAY 3 •THURS• OCT 25: making process which includes GENEVA-LYON transporting the grapes as well as the wine, the winemaker's tools and trade, This morning is the included Geneva City the cellars, the making of the wine and Tour. You will enjoy an up close and the bottling and corking. Finish the visit personal look at this cheerful city with its with a tasting of Beaujolais wines, in a backdrop of lofty snowcapped peaks. The room housing a barrel organ called a lakefront and its famous water fountain, the "bouteillophone". (B,L,D) Flower Clock, St. Peter's Cathedral, Reformation Wall and the Palace Neuve are At Lyon, the Rhone and Saone rivers "kiss" and together they become the Grand Rhone as it rolls along Aries and on to the Mediterranean Sea. The 500 mile long Rhone-Saone river winds its way through picturesque Provence and the heart of French wine country with breathtaking vistas and splendid views of small French villages, famousvineyards, UNESCO World Heritage sites, architectural masterpieces and papal palaces. Come along and savor the taste, sights and sounds of this very special corner of Europe. DAY 6 • SUN • OCT 28 2000 year old Roman aqueduct. Enjoy DAY 9 •WED• OCT 31: LYON your evening. Ship overnights in CHATEAUNEUF-DU-RHONE - LE POUZIN Avignon. (B,L,D) This morning enjoy the included Lyon This morning, after breakfast, we have City Tour. This UNESCO World Heritage the optional excursion to the Ardeche city is the 3rd largest city in France and Gorge. This natural wonder is the 'Grand sits at the confluence of the Rhone and Canyon of Europe' and its spectacular the Saone. Walk the streets of the Old DAY 8 •TUES• OCT 30: limestone cliffs towering 1000 feet Town and learn the history of the Basilica ARLES above the river are an illustrious sight. of Notre-Dame de Fourviere, the famous We will rejoin the ship in Le Pouzin in After breakfast, we depart for our Roman theatre and the architecture time for lunch and spend a lovely included Walking Tour of the city of bearing the influence of the Italian afternoon cruising the Rhone. This Aries. Famed as a World Heritage Site, Renissance. After lunch, enjoy a day of evening is the Captain's Gala Dinner. Aries flaunts a rich history which includes cruising, whether watching the French (B,L,D) the Gauls, the Romans and the countryside pass by from the comfort of Archbishop of France. This afternoon is a balcony cabin or from the Sun Deck on 0 O free to wander the streets of Aries just as DAY 10 THURS NOV 1: the top of the ship. An afternoon Vincent Van Gogh did in the late 1800's. LYON - USA on board also offers a window of time for In fact, many of the city's settings may a massage in the spa or an afternoon Bid the Rhone River au revoir and fly seem somewhat familiar as several of nap. Enjoy your day! (B,L,D) home from Lyon. (B) Van Gogh's paintings originated here. This afternoon, you also have the option OPTIONAL POST-CRUISE of joining our excursion to the DAY 7 • MON • OCT 29: Camargue Nature Park which covers STAY IN PARIS AVIGNON over 300 square miles and boasts unique 3 NIGHTS - $799 PER PERSON flora, fauna, wild bulls and white Greet the "City of Popes," Avignon, on Camargue horses. (B,L,D) • 3 nights accommodations in a firstclass our included Walking Tour. Visit hotel in Paris, with breakfast included Avignon's lavish Palais des Papes (Palace each morning of the Popes) which was considered the • All transfers included center of the Christian world during the 14th century. Perhaps you'd like to • City tour of Paris signup for the optional excursion to the • Free time to enjoy all the sights, such as Pont du Gard and Uzes this afternoon to Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower and the Arc de learn the history of the Pont du Gard, a Triomphe .