An independent river-cruise reference
Every river cruise ship, deck plan and itinerary in one place.
Profiles for 252 active river cruise vessels — Rhine longships, Mekong shallow-draft yachts, Loire paddle-wheelers, Nile dahabiyas — plus the cabin categories, deck layouts and signature itineraries that define each one.
Featured fleet
Recently profiled ships
Viking Egil
Longship · launched 2014 · 190 guests
Viking Var
Longship · launched 2014 · 190 guests
Viking Vali
Longship · launched 2014 · 190 guests
Viking Skadi
Longship · launched 2013 · 190 guests
Viking Idun
Longship · launched 2012 · 190 guests
Viking Tor
Longship · launched 2013 · 190 guests
By operator
Cruise lines covered
Viking River Cruises
Scandinavian-styled Longships exploring Europe's great waterways.
AmaWaterways
Boutique river ships with twin balconies and onboard bicycles.
Avalon Waterways
Suite Ships with beds that face the river.
Scenic Luxury Cruises
All-inclusive Space-Ships with butler-served suites.
Emerald Cruises
Star-Ships with an indoor pool that converts to a cinema.
Uniworld Boutique River Cruises
Floating boutique hotels with hand-curated antiques.
CroisiEurope
Family-owned French line covering Europe's lesser-known rivers.
Tauck
Family-owned American operator with multi-generational departures.
A-ROSA River Cruises
Lifestyle river cruising for a German-speaking market.
Riviera Travel
British operator with single-supplement cabins on every ship.
Amadeus River Cruises
Family-owned Austrian line with classic European itineraries.
Grand Circle Cruise Line
Small-ship river cruises for active North American travellers.
Pandaw
Colonial-era teak ships on Asia's less-trafficked rivers.
Aqua Expeditions
Luxury small-ship river cruising in the Mekong, Amazon and beyond.
Heritage Line
Boutique themed ships across Indochina's rivers.
Sanctuary Retreats
Boutique river cruising on the Nile, Yangtze and Irrawaddy.
American Cruise Lines
US-built coastal and river ships across America's waterways.
American Queen Voyages
Heritage paddle-wheelers on the Mississippi River system.
Riverside Luxury Cruises
New ultra-luxury entrant with all-suite ships.
Vodohod
Russia's largest operator on the Volga and waterways of the north.
By waterway
Rivers & regions
Rhine
The Rhine is the busiest river-cruise corridor in the world. Its Middle-Rhine gorge between Bingen and Koblenz is a UNESCO World Heritage…
Danube
The Danube is Europe's second-longest river and the only one that flows from west to east across the continent. Classic itineraries run…
Seine
Seine river cruises round-trip from Paris, threading through Monet's Giverny, Richard the Lionheart's Château Gaillard, and the half-timbered streets of Rouen before…
Douro
The Douro is one of the most spectacular river-cruise routes in Europe — a deeply terraced wine valley cultivated since the seventeenth…
Rhône & Saône
The combined Rhône and Saône itinerary runs the length of Burgundy and Provence — from the gastronomic capital of Lyon down to…
Main & Moselle
The Main and Moselle are the most picturesque tributaries of the Rhine. The Moselle in particular — a thirty-mile sequence of horseshoe…
Elbe
The Elbe runs from the Krkonoše mountains in Bohemia through Dresden, Wittenberg and Magdeburg to Hamburg. Its shallow draft requires purpose-built ships…
Loire
France's longest river is also one of its wildest, with shifting sandbars that for centuries kept commercial cruising off the table. CroisiEurope's…
Po
Po itineraries depart from Venice and trace the river upstream through the Po Delta to Mantua and Ferrara. Ships are limited in…
Mekong
Mekong cruises run between My Tho or Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and Phnom Penh or Siem Reap in Cambodia, typically…
Irrawaddy
The Irrawaddy — known locally as the Ayeyarwady — flows the length of Myanmar from the Himalayan foothills to the Andaman Sea.…
Volga
The Volga is Europe's longest river. The signature itinerary, "Waterways of the Tsars", connects Moscow and St Petersburg via the Volga–Baltic canal…
Nile
Nile cruises run between Luxor and Aswan, almost always as part of a guided land package that includes Cairo and the Pyramids…
Mississippi
Cruises on the Mississippi are operated by paddle-wheel and modern shallow-draft ships from American Cruise Lines and American Queen Voyages. Itineraries run…
Columbia & Snake
The Columbia and Snake itinerary follows the Lewis and Clark trail across the Pacific Northwest from Portland to Clarkston. Ships transit eight…
Ohio, Tennessee & Cumberland
The Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland river system is sailed by American Cruise Lines and AQV between Memphis, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.…
What you'll find inside RiverCruiseGuide
RiverCruiseGuide is an editorial directory of the world's river cruise vessels. Every ship in the database is documented with the same structured profile so that comparisons across lines and classes are direct and consistent.
For each ship we publish the launch year, the passenger and cabin count, the number of decks, the overall length in metres and the rivers she primarily sails. The cabin section lists every category offered onboard with its square footage, deck location, view type and maximum occupancy. The deck plan section walks the ship from sun deck down to main deck with a description of what each level contains. Each profile finishes with the signature itineraries the vessel runs and a list of public-room amenities — restaurants, lounges, wellness spaces, top-deck features and inclusive program perks.
Use the menu to browse all ships, drill in by cruise line, or start with a river or region. Profiles are crosslinked so you can move from any ship to her line, her river and her sister vessels in a single click.