Not your average river cruise ship

The first river cruise I ever took was nearly seven years ago; a Christmas Markets cruise along the Danube with AmaWaterways. The ship I sailed on was the petite AmaLyra; a classy, cosy ship holding just 146 passengers that was built in 2009.
AmaWaterways continued to innovate throughout the intervening years, but innovation doesn’t come easy on the rivers of Europe. Ships are severely limited in terms of their physical dimensions thanks to shallow waters, low-hanging bridges and narrow lo