Winner of the ‘Condé Nast 2009 Best Small Ship’ award, the River Duchess has been in service since 2003 and carries 134 guests on 7- to 14-night cruises throughout Austria, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, and Slovakia along the Danube, Main, and Rhine Rivers. Decadently-appointed cabins and suites are complete with every amenity including hotel-style beds, built-in closets, safes, hair-dryers, individual thermostats, flat-screen TVs with satellite, L’Occitane body products, and more. Each meal onboard is prepared with attention to detail and created from fine ingredients often selected locally from the surrounding region. Guests have a wide array of entertainment options onboard from chess and shuffleboard on the sun deck to multiple lounges with full bars. Guests can also enjoy the complimentary use of bicycles and Nordic walking sticks to ensure that they get the most out of each stop.