Cruise route map
Alsace-Lorraine
Base at Lutzelbourg
Lutzelbourg: Canal de La Marne au Rhin, Canal de la Sarre, Moselle, Canal des Vosges
Our base at Lutzelbourg provides an Alsatian welcome, with its castle and its famous crystal workshops.
Whichever way you cruise, half-timbered houses gay with window boxes, onion-domed church towers, intricate wrought-ironwork and a hundred small details give the villages a festival air.
Wherever you stop, you'll find the food equally special: choucroute and charcuterie as well as mouthwatering plum and greengage tarts.
Cruising the Canal de la Sarre you pass mainly through woodland with the odd small town to tempt you with a restaurant meal.
At Sarreguemines, you'll be charmed by the hand-decorated pottery.
On your return, you'll travel on the boat lift at Arzwiller which replaces 17 locks.
Following the Marne-Rhine Canal, you pass through Saverne with its ducal palace and across the Alsatian plain to the heart of Strasbourg.
At Toul, a town fortified by Vauban and enjoying fine views over the loops of the river Moselle, you are entering Lorraine.
Its countryside is just as fine as its cities, of which Nancy and Metz are the high-points.
One-week cruises from Lutzelbourg
- Lutzelbourg, Saverne, Strasbourg, Lutzelbourg
115 km; 60 locks; 4hr45 cruising per day - Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Dombasle, Nancy, Lutzelbourd
188 km; 52 locks; 5hr30 cruising per day
10 or 11-day cruises
- Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Sarreguemines, Sarrebruck, Lutzelbourg
234 km; 72 locks; 4hr15 cruising per day
Two-week cruises
- Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Sarreguemines, Sarrebruck, Lutzelbourg
234 km; 72 locks; 3hr30 cruising per day - Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Dombasle, Nancy, Metz, Lutzelbourg
303 km; 64 locks; 4hr30 cruising per day
Weekend cruise
- Lutzelbourg, Saverne, Arzviller- Lutzelbourg
28 km; 26 locks; 5h15 cruising per day
Two or Three-week cruise
- Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Sarreguemines, Sarrebruck, Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy, Lutzelbourg
454 km; 78 locks; 4 tunnels; 2 inclined planes; 3h45 cruising per day if cruising for 3 weeks
Locaboat rental boats for Alsace-Lorraine
There are 14 self-drive boats for the Alsace-Lorraine
