AmaMora

AmaMora is the same 443-foot hull as AmaVerde and AmaSerena with three fewer staterooms in it. That sounds like a downgrade and is the opposite. The 2019 boats took the same volume (the beam is fixed at 38 feet by the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and the length by the locks, so there is no other variable to move), and spent it on the rooms rather than the room count.

What eight years of the same hull bought

She was the eleventh Concerto-class vessel, built by Vahali in Serbia, and she made her maiden voyage from Amsterdam to Basel on June 3, 2019. She was christened the following month at Lahnstein on the Rhine, with Libbie Rice of Ensemble Travel Group as godmother.

Two changes are worth the money. The first is the elevator. On AmaVerde, AmaPrima, AmaSerena and AmaVenita it serves Violin and Cello Decks only; the lowest accommodation deck, Piano, is stairs. On AmaMora it serves Violin, Cello and Piano. It still does not reach the Sun Deck, because nothing on a river boat does, but for a passenger with a bad knee that single deck is the difference between the cheap cabin being possible and not.

The second is the cabin plan: 78 staterooms across nine categories, with suites at 350 square feet, the larger figure, matching AmaVerde rather than the 300 square feet of the 2013-to-2015 boats. She also carries a Category CB at 155 square feet, the smallest room in the class, so the spread from cheapest to best is wider on this ship than on her sisters. Most rooms above the waterline have the twin balcony, a French balcony plus a separate step-out one.

Her heated Sun Deck pool has a swim-up bar, which the older hulls do not. Two dining rooms, the Main Restaurant and The Chef’s Table at the stern. Bicycles aboard, a fitness room, massage, a hair salon, and Wi-Fi that works better than it used to.

She has moved to the Danube

She was built for the Rhine and ran it for years; AmaWaterways’ own page still describes her that way, which is stale. Her booked sailings now start almost entirely at Budapest, with a few at Vilshofen and Nuremberg, and the itineraries attached to her are Romantic Danube, Melodies of the Danube and the Danube Christmas market week. Trust the schedule: this is a Danube ship now. Everything on her calendar into 2028 is seven nights.

That is a narrower job than she has had before. In 2024 she carried the longest river sailing AmaWaterways has ever run, 49 nights from Amsterdam to Giurgiu and back again the other way, fifteen countries, the whole Danube plus the Main, the Moselle, the Rhine and the Dutch waterways, with a week in the Danube Delta. Nothing like that is on her books now.

Who she suits

The Danube passenger who cares about the cabin. Within this fleet she is the best-configured of the seven-night Danube boats: the largest suites, the widest category spread, and the only elevator in the batch that reaches every deck where people sleep.

She does not suit anyone wanting the lower Danube; that is AmaVerde’s route, and AmaMora stays on the Vienna-Budapest-Passau stretch that everyone sails. She does not suit families; there is no children’s program and there would be nowhere to put one. And the swim-up bar is a bar in a small heated pool on a sun deck, not a resort feature. Booking her for that would be a mistake.