Celebrity Cruises is opening its inaugural season of river vacations to the public today, Thursday, September 25, 2025. The inaugural sailings will be 33 unforgettable 7-night voyages on “the most innovative ships on the river.”
“We are thrilled to open remaining inventory on 2027 Celebrity River Cruises sailings, following Priority Booking Access selling out earlier this month in just six minutes,” said Laura Hodges Bethge, president of Celebrity Cruises. “The response to the innovative design and unmatched experience Celebrity Compass and Celebrity Seeker will deliver has been overwhelmingly positive. Guests are going to love sailing Europe’s Rhine and Danube rivers The Celebrity Way on our fleet of elevated, cutting-edge ships.”
Celebrity River Cruises will offer the same service-first approach to the river as it does on the ocean. Guests will have the opportunity to explore historic destinations like Austria and Budapest as they sail the Rhine and Danube rivers aboard the first two of Celebrity’s fleet of transformative river ships.
Itineraries include a 7-night Vienna & Budapest voyage. Guests will embark from Bavaria, Germany to Budapest, Hungary on the Danube River. A voyage described as “a journey that flows through vineyard-lines hills, forested bends, and castle-crowned ridges.” There is also a 7-night Budapest and Vienna itinerary, which follows the Danube River westbound.
Guests can celebrate Christmas along the Danube River during a 7-night Budapest to Nuremberg, Germany voyage which includes exploring cultural Christmas markets. Or guests can celebrate New Year’s on a 7-night journey from Nuremberg, Germany to Amsterdam which will call on festive towns along the Rhine arriving in Amsterdam on the first day of the New Year. Guests can also enjoy pre & post-cruise experiences in Prague and Budapest.
No matter which is chosen, the Danube or the Rhine, Celebrity Seeker or Celebrity Compass, guests will experience river cruising like never before–The Celebrity Way.