{"id":19851,"date":"2014-06-25T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/tauck-launches-the-ms-savor\/"},"modified":"2014-06-25T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:03:00","slug":"tauck-launches-the-ms-savor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/06\/tauck-launches-the-ms-savor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauck Launches the ms Savor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tauck Chairman Arthur Tauck, Jr., ms Savor Godmother
 Liz Tauck Walters and Captain Michael Szekely <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Some 20 members of the Tauck<\/a> family spanning three generations joined Tauck company executives, journalists, special guests and local dignitaries in Bingen am Rhein, Germany on Saturday, the 21st June 2014, to christen Tauck\u2019s newest riverboat, the ms Savor. ms Savor is Tauck\u2019s second New Inspiration Class Riverboat, along ms Inspire, means that Tauck has boosted its river cruising capacity by 55% this year. <\/p>\n

European river cruising continues to be the fastest growing segment of Tauck\u2019s business, the company routinely sells out its cabin inventory each year, and demand has been further bolstered by Tauck being named the \u201cWorld\u2019s Best River Cruise Line\u201d twice in the past three years by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine. <\/p>\n

FEWER PASSENGERS, AND UP TO FOUR-TIMES THE SERVICE STAFF<\/p>\n

The ms Savor and ms Inspire together comprise Tauck\u2019s new Inspiration Class ships, and they join Tauck\u2019s four existing Jewel Class ships, the ms Treasures, ms Swiss Jewel, ms Swiss Sapphire and ms Swiss Emerald. Like the Jewel Class ships, the Inspiration Class vessels carry far fewer passengers \u2013 yet they have far more service staff \u2013 than ships of the same size operated by other river cruise lines. Where the 443-foot-long Inspiration Class ships carry just 130 guests, other lines\u2019 ships of the same length carry 190 passengers, or 46% more guests. And where other lines have just one cruise director to tend to the needs of those 190 guests, Tauck staffs each ship with a Tauck Cruise Director and three professional Tauck Directors to care for 130 guests.<\/p>\n

Also notable on the Savor and Inspire are the eight \u201cloft\u201d cabins located on each ship\u2019s lower (Emerald) deck. On other European riverboats the lower-level cabins are small, and because they\u2019re mostly below the ships\u2019 waterlines, they\u2019re limited to modest, sealed windows at eye level that admit minimal sunlight and zero fresh air. Tauck\u2019s 225-square-foot loft cabins, however, have a raised platform seating area located against the ships\u2019 hull\/outer wall with a correspondingly higher ceiling immediately above. The higher ceiling in turn allows the use of a much taller window than can normally be incorporated into lower-level cabins. The middle portion of this window can be opened electronically for fresh air, and being taller, the window allows far more natural light to fill the cabin.<\/p>\n

Each of the new Inspiration Class ships also has twenty-two 300 square foot suites furnished with two French balconies with floor-to-ceiling windows, a pull-out couch, roomy walk-in closets with built-in drawers, and a spacious bathroom with rain shower. Along with the suites, the newbuilds also have thirty-two 225 square foot cabins, plus an additional thirteen cabins ranging from 150 to 190 square feet. In keeping with Tauck\u2019s policy of welcoming solo travelers, four of the 150 square foot cabins are set aside for guests traveling on their own. All suites and cabins feature in-room movies, minibar, individual heating and cooling controls, luxury toiletries, and plush bedding with 100% goose down pillows, 400-thread-count linens and pillow-top mattresses.<\/p>\n

For 2014, the ms Savor will sail on two Tauck itineraries, \u201cThe Blue Danube\u201d (12 days, from $4,790 per person plus airfare) and \u201cDanube Reflections\u201d (10 days, from $4,590 per person plus airfare). Like all Tauck river cruises, both itineraries aboard the ms Savor are fully inclusive. <\/p>\n

Besides launching two new ships, Tauck is also launching four new river cruise itineraries this year, including its first on the River Seine in France. Tauck will launch two additional river cruises in 2015, the 23-day \u201cBelle Epoch: London to Monte-Carlo\u201d on the Seine, Sa\u00f4ne and Rh\u00f4ne rivers, and the 8-day \u201cCastles on the Rhine: Family Riverboat Adventure.\u201d The latter itinerary is the third river cruise created specifically for families by Tauck, which has twice been named the “World’s Best River Cruise Line for Families” by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tauck Chairman Arthur Tauck, Jr., ms Savor Godmother Liz Tauck Walters and Captain Michael Szekely  Some 20 members of the Tauck family spanning three generations joined Tauck company executives, journalists, special guests and local dignitaries in Bingen am Rhein, Germany on Saturday, the 21st June 2014, to christen Tauck\u2019s newest riverboat, the ms Savor. ms Savor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tauck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}