m.touch travel
Barge Cruises in France
Who we are
M-Touch Travel offers a full range of hotel barges and river cruises.
But thats not all, we offer pre and post trip sightseeing tours, dinner cruises, cooking courses, wine tastings and experiences for groups and individuals.
The M-Touch Difference is hands-on, hassle free travel with the goal to make your holiday an experience to remember whatever your budget.
Welcome to France!
Larry Davis
Details
Current Special Cruises
2 passengers travel for the price of one at the standard price:
22 March: Charlemagne, Libellule, Lorraine
29 March: Anacoluthe, Charlemagne,
5 April: Lorraine
12 April: Anacoluthe, Libellule
Let Us Plan Your Trip
I have selected for you the very best of France's Waterway barges.
We can arrange your transfers at a discounted price. In addition, we will reserve hotel pre and post cruise for added convenience.
Burgundy
A boat ride along Burgundy's waterways makes a truly delightful way to float through history...
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Burgundy spans a watershed. The Saone River runs south to the Mediterranean; the Yonne flows north to join the Seine. In addition, canals link the main cities and towns. The Canal de Bourgogne is the most popular waterway in France for leisure cruising extending over 150 miles through the famous vineyards, towns and villages of this beautiful region
| BARGE | RIVERS | SLEEPS | COST* | MORE |
| Litote | Burgundy Canal |
20 | 1,600€ |  |
| Libellule |
River Saone |
20 | 1,600€ | |
| La
Belle Epoque |
Nivernais |
12 | 1,600€ | |
| Art
de Vivre |
Upper Nivernais |
8 | 1,600€ | |
| Fleur
de Lis |
Saône & Canal du Centre |
6 | 29,400€ | |
| The
Amarylis |
Saône, Rhône, Canal du
Centre |
8 | 33,900€ | |
| The
Hirondelle |
Canal de Bourgogne, Centre, Rhône,
Saône |
8 | 3,200€ | |
| Le
Premier |
Canal de Bourgogne |
4-6 | 3,500€ | |
| Savoire
Faire |
River Yonne |
12 | 2,300€ | |
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Provence
With its feet in the Mediterranean and its head in the Alps, the region has an extensive palette of colourful landscapes.
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The light is exceptionally bright, and its landscapes are wonderfully varied: from rocky inlets with their parasol pines and turquoise water to the Camargue plain, from the Vaucluse vineyards to the summits of the southernmost Alps or the plateaux of Haute-Provence with their scents of thyme and lavender. Just south of Arles is the meeting place of the Rhone and the Mediterranean. A natural and protected park of the Camargue, composed of vast plains of wetlands, ponds and rice paddies and its natural inhabitants the pink flamingoes, herons and cormorants.
| BOAT | ROUTE | SLEEPS | COST* | MORE |
| Anjodi |
Canal du midi |
8 | 1,600€ | |
| Impressionniste |
Canal du midi Rhone, Canal a Rhone
a Sete |
12 | 1,600€ | |
| Le
Phenicien |
Canal du Rhône à Sète |
18 | 2,060€ | |
| Roi
de Soleil |
Canal du Midi |
6 | 1,600€ | |
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Loire Valley
The Spectacular Loire Valley and its main tributary, the River Cher, have carried cargo and passengers for over 2000 years since pre Roman times.
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| BOAT | ROUTE | SLEEPS | COST* | MORE |
| Nymphea |
River Cher | 6 | 2,150€ | |
| Meanderer |
River Cher |
6 | 1,600€ | |
| Alphonsa |
Loire River |
6 | 650€ | |
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Bordeaux & South-West
Stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, the man-made waterways of the Canal du Midi and the Canal Lateral a la Garonne form France's longest navigable artificial waterway. Together they are called the Canal Des Deux Mers.
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West from Toulouse the canal becomes the Canal Lateral a la Garonne, passing through Moissac, Agen and Castets-en Dorthe ending at the beautiful the 18th century city of Bordeaux. Started in 1666 and built by as many as 12,000 men, the Canal du midi runs 235 kilometres and requires over 100 locks to join the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Plane trees and poplars line the banks of the Canal du Midi against the hot summer sunshine. From the pink city of Toulouse to the port of Sete, the canal cuts through Southern France.
| BOAT | ROUTE | SLEEPS | COST* | MORE |
| Saint
Louis |
Canal du Midi | 6 | 2,150€ | |
| Alouette |
Canal du Midi |
20 | 2,600€ | |
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Normandy
From the mouth of the Seine westwards to the Orne is the Floral Coast...
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At the mouth of the Seine is Le Havre, a busy port that houses a great modern museum, Musee Malraux. On the opposite side of the Seine Estuary is the lovely old fishing port of Honfleur with its tall houses. Following the Seine from Paris is Les Andelys dominated by the Chateau Gaillard built in 1196 by Richard Lionheart, King of England and Duke of Normandy, to keep the King of France from reaching Rouen.
| BOAT | ROUTE | SLEEPS | COST* | MORE |
| Esprit D'Europe | Seine River | 38 | 2,150€ | |
| Anacoluthe | Seine River |
50 | 1,600€ | |
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Alsace Lorraine
Canal du Rhone au Rhin, a beautiful waterway that has seen little use since the building of the Grand Canal d"Alsace in the 1950's.
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See the famous "Arzviller" barge lift: raising craft 52 meters. and cruise into Lorraine, where the canal follows the steep-sided valley of the River Zorn to the famous inclined plane of Arzwiller. and then through a cutting and two tunnels under the peak of the Vosges Mountains
| BOAT | ROUTE | SLEEPS | COST* | MORE |
| Lorraine |
Canal du Rhône
au Rhin |
22 | 1,500€ |  |
