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UNIWORLD SPICES UP 2009 CRUISES

October 8, 2008 on 8:40 am | In Adventure Travel, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, London, Luxwmbourg, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Paris, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rome, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Wales, Yugoslavia |

Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection is making Europe even more tantalizing in 2009 with the debut of their Epicurean Adventurer Program in which guests can indulge their passion for fine wines and gourmet foods.

Guests aboard a Uniworld cruise featuring the Epicurean Adventurer Program will enjoy a host of culinary delights including private wine tastings, special wine and food pairings, cooking demonstrations and unique onshore excursions.

With our new Epicurean Adventurer Program, we’re giving our guests the ultimate in entertainment and education,” said Guy Young, president of Uniworld. “Now they can explore regional foods and wines in an entirely new way.”

Uniworld’s intimate boutique, hotel-style ships offer the perfect setting for an in-depth discovery of the preparation and pairing of premier foods and wines. On each Epicurean Adventurer cruise, guests enjoy a special dinner prepared with the region’s freshest ingredients and learn how to select the perfect wine to complement the meal.

Guests will also have the opportunity to participate in cooking demonstrations led by master chefs who reveal trade secrets and techniques to help ‘students’ create their own gourmet dishes. Guided shore excursions will take guests into castles and vintners’ homes for private wine tastings, or to local open-air food markets to sample regional treats. Overall, the new Epicurean Adventurer Program is designed to give Uniworld’s guests, as they journey through Europe, even more memories to savor.

Uniworld’s Epicurean Adventurer Program will be available on the following 2009 cruises:

Danube Discovery. Travel from Vienna to Nuremberg in nine days with fares starting from $2,099 per person

Rhine Discovery. Travel from Nuremberg to Basel in nine days with fares starting from $2,099 per person.

Grand European Discovery. Travel from Basel to Vienna in 16 days with fares starting from $4,049 per person.

Legendary Rhine & Moselle. Travel from Amsterdam to Basel in 14 days with fares starting from $3,599 per person

Paris & the European River Romance. Travel from Paris to Nuremberg in 11 days with fares starting from $1,999 per person.

Paris & the Heart of Europe. Travel from Paris to Vienna in 18 days with fares starting from $4,059 per person

Paris & the Grand European Waterways. Travel from Paris to Bucharest in 32 days with fares starting from $7,259 per person

Burgundy & Provence. Travel from Arles to Chalon in nine days with fares starting from $2,059 per person.

Grand European Explorer: Travel from Basel to Bucharest in 30 days with fares starting from $8,199 per person.

About Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection

Los Angeles-based Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection, the premier river cruise company, was recently named to Travel+Leisure’s World’s Best Top 10 Small Cruise Lines, Condé Nast Traveler’s 2008 Gold List and their Reader’s Choice Awards for World’s Top 10 Small Cruise Lines.

Uniworld features intimate boutique, hotel-style cruise ships with an average capacity of 134 guests, and a ratio of one staff member for every three guests, world-class cuisine, and expertly planned itineraries with custom-blended shore excursions. The company offers over 500 departures on more than 35 itineraries sailing on 12 rivers in over 20 countries throughout Europe, Russia, China and Egypt.