{"id":4231,"date":"2011-12-11T15:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T22:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2018-08-25T20:12:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T00:12:16","slug":"live-from-the-river-embarking-amalyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/2011\/12\/live-from-the-river-embarking-amalyra\/","title":{"rendered":"Live from the River: Embarking AmaLyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a quick flight over from Frankfurt, I found myself in the friendly city of Nuremberg, where I collected my luggage and was whisked by the pre-arranged shoreside transfer service en route to <strong>AmaWaterways\u2019<\/strong> <strong><em>AmaLyra<\/em><\/strong>, which lies docked along the Main-Danube Canal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8695\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8695\" class=\"wp-image-8695 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ftdc_ama-5135-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ftdc_ama-5135-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ftdc_ama-5135-480x360-280x210.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beautiful Main Lounge aboard AmaWaterways&#8217; AmaLyra. Photo \u00a9 2011 Aaron Saunders<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There was another river cruise ship docked just downstream from <em>AmaLyra<\/em>, but it was clear that the 2009-built AmaWaterways ship was the clear aesthetic winner.\u00a0 Indeed, the <em>AmaLyra<\/em> has a strikingly elegant profile that is designed as much to soothe as to impress.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping onboard couldn\u2019t have been easier. My transfer van pulled up at the dock next to the ship, I got out, and within mere minutes I\u2019d exchanged my passport for my stateroom key.\u00a0 But there was a surprise in store there, too: I found myself the fortunate recipient of one of the ship\u2019s premier <strong>Junior Suites<\/strong>.\u00a0 And at a generous 255 square feet, it knocked my socks off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a quick flight over from Frankfurt, I found myself in the friendly city of Nuremberg, where I collected my luggage and was whisked by the pre-arranged shoreside transfer service en route to AmaWaterways\u2019 AmaLyra, which lies docked along the Main-Danube Canal. There was another river cruise ship docked just downstream from AmaLyra, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}