~ Luxury Canal & River Cruises on Europe's Finest Canal Barge

Europe's finest luxury canal barge cruises...

• Bringing Classic Yacht Quality Inland
  The canal barge Golden Odyssey is designed to bring classic yacht quality to the European canals and rivers. Newly rebuilt with the finest materials and to the highest International Yacht Standards, Golden Odyssey marks a departure from the usual canal barge cruise experience. A cruise vacation aboard the canal yacht Golden Odyssey is akin to travelling with one's own five star hotel.

• Canal Cruise Charters
  Golden Odyssey offers her six guests the opportunity to explore the most beautiful parts of Europe at their own pace. Our itineraries are as individual as our clients. Europe's canals and rivers are the byways of history, passing through the major cultural and historic centres, as well as the most beautiful countryside. Aboard Golden Odyssey you are free to explore at your leisure. Your schedule is ours.

• Cuisine
  An essential feature of a luxury canal cruise aboard Golden Odyssey is our gourmet cuisine and fine wines. Menus can be individually tailored to meet your tastes. Indeed our guests often say that the food and service aboard are the highlight of their canal cruise.
  

• Castle Cruise
  Golden Odyssey is delighted that, with the gracious permission of the Count de Roodenbeke, we are able to offer a unique cruise of six nights aboard Golden Odyssey, with the seventh night a-shore as guests of Castle Ooidonk. A family home for centuries, the castle is not generally open to the public. Guests will be invited to a private dinner before spending the night in the stately bedrooms, a real privilege: never before in living memory has anyone but family spent the night in Ooidonk Castle.
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  A Perfect Evening
  Arriving at castle Ooidonck from our hot air balloon for  champagne and a fantasy diner in the castle of the Count de Roodenbeke
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
• Opera Cruise
  Once per year Ooidonk hosts a major Opera Production against the stunning background of the castle's inner Courtyard. Following on from last years enormously successful production of Madame Butterfly,  the same artistic team will this year stage a lavish production of The Magic Flute on the nights of September 6th, 7th & 8th.
  François de Carpentries and his team have carte blanche in this production, which promises the opportunity to rediscover Mozart's much loved masterpiece.
  Guests aboard Golden Odyssey can look forward to a memorable night, with private limousine straight to the Castle, returning to the yacht for a midnight supper.
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“….our expectations were exceeded, in every respect.  I’ve never experienced better dining, nor better service and keen attention to our every need….The best evidence of our satisfaction level, I suppose, is that we intend to return next year….”