The Alsace and the Lorraine with Locaboat

Cruise in the Alsace-Lorraine with Locaboat

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 on your Locaboat, 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.

10 or 11-day cruises

• Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Sarreguemines, Sarrebruck and return
  Cruise distance 234km (145.40 miles), 72 locks, 39 hours of cruising

Two-week cruises

• Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Dombasle, Nancy, Metz and return
  Cruise distance 234km (145.40 miles), 72 locks, 42 hours of cruising

• Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Dombasle, Nancy, Metz and return
  Cruise distance 303km (188.28 miles), 64 locks, 54 hours of cruising

Weekend cruise

• Lutzelbourg, Saverne, Arzviller- Lutzelbourg
  Cruise distance 28km (17.40 miles), 26 locks, 5:9 hours of cruising

Two or Three-week cruise

• Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Sarreguemines, Sarrebruck, Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy, Lutzelbourg
  Cruise distance 454km (282.10 miles), 78 locks, 45 hours of cruising

  4 tunnels; 2 inclined planes; 3h45 cruising per day if cruising for 3 weeks

One-week cruises from Lutzelbourg

• Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Dombasle, Nancy and return
  Cruise distance 188km (116.82 miles), 52 locks, 33 hours of cruising

• Lutzelbourg, Saverne, Strasbourg and return
  Cruise distance 115km (71.46 miles), 60 locks, 35 hours of cruising