Navigate the Ancient Yangtze With Victoria Cruises

Along the shores of China's Yangtze River, the ancient and the modern collide. And on a journey with Victoria Cruises, you will experience the thrilling ebb and flow of Chinese life in the 21st Century.
For over a decade, Victoria has been the leader in Yangtze cruising, because of the quality of our fleet, our outstanding service and innovative itineraries.

In 2008, we are pleased to feature our premier ships, a series of larger contemporary vessels; these include new or newly rebuilt ships with enhanced facilities. All cabins on our premier ships have private balconies for viewing the spectacular Three Gorges scenery. We will also feature our classic ships, first class vessels which entered service in the 1990's, and feature Victoria's same outstanding service.

In 2008, we will offer itineraries through the spectacular Three Gorges, sailing 3 nights Chongqing/Yichang, 4 nights Yichang/Chongqing, as well as our round trip 7 night itinerary sailing Chongqing/Yichang/Chongqing, (with different shore excursions in each direction) for those wishing an in depth view of the Three Gorges region. We will continue to offer our cruises, which add the interesting sights of the Eastern Yangtze, sailing 6 nights Chongqing/Shanghai and 8 nights Shanghai/Chongqing.

In addition, our specially-priced Winter Special program from early December through mid-March will sail downstream Chongqing/Yichang every Thursday (3 nights), upstream every Sunday (4 nights), as well as round trip Chongqing/Yichang/ Chongqing every Thursday (7 nights), utilizing our classic ships.

All cruises sail through the ship locks adjacent to China's new engineering marvel-the Three Gorges Dam, where a sightseeing tour is included.

Integrated Evaluation

At the moment, in the tourism market of Three Gorges Cruise itinerary, the American management Victoria Fleet has the best quality guarantee. Dependent of the good American management and international service, most entrepreneurs and famous people from Taiwan like to take Victoria Cruise when they come to visit the Yangtze Three Gorges. Zhao Shaokang, the chairman of the famous flying saucer, and his family especially design the Victoria Cruise to visit the Yangtze Three Gorges. All of them were satisfied with the service on board and they also mentioned it in the television programmers once again and introduced it to the audience.

Victoria Cruise has been starting to run in 1994, the high-quality American management and international service standard welcome every guest boarding on the boat. Therefore, this makes it have the highest quality service of travel cruise on the Yangtze River, producing the most satisfactory of Three Gorges tourism and the loyalty of the tourists from the entire world. Most of the tourists take the Victoria Cruise to visit the Yangtze Three Gorges once again and also introduce the unforgettable experience of the Yangtze Three Gorges to their relatives and friends. In the past ten years, Victoria improves their quality not only in the hardware of the boat but also the service on board.

Advantages of the cruise

All the Victoria Fleet has managers who can speak double languages of all nationalities all the year round

All the Victoria Cruises have comfortable observation cabin and private bath facilities
(P Series have bathtubs, C Series have shower facilities)
Premier Series: Victoria Katarina, Victoria Anna, Victoria Queen, Victoria Empress, Victoria Prince, and Victories Star
Classis Series: Victoria Rose

All the P series of American Victoria Fleet have private balcony and you can visit the beautiful landscape of the Yangtze Three Gorges

All the deluxe suite of American Victoria Fleet has private balcony, shower facilities and sofa rest area.

All the Victoria Cruises have private air-conditioner facilities and bathtubs

All the Victoria Cruises provide all kinds of self-service breakfast; the lunch and supper are Chinese banquet.

All the Victoria Cruises have commercial center, reading room, conference hall, gymnasium, present department and beauty salon on board.

All the Victoria Cruises have rich activities: talks on the Yangtze River, Chinese calligraphy mad Taiji Boxing.

All the Victoria Cruises have rich amusement activities: welcome party, folk clothing performance and welcome banquet by the Captain.

All Victoria Cruises have stable schedule every year and provide many kinds of itineraries. All the cruises have international satellite communication telephones, HBO, BBC television channels and international post.

Service characteristics of the Victoria Fleet

All Victoria Cruises have representatives on board.

All the representatives on board have carefully chosen them from outstanding people. They not only have deep tourism service experience but also rich driving ships experience. Therefore, these representatives have Chinese background and they are very familiar to Chinese society and they can also speak fluently Chinese.

All Victoria Cruises have guide on board who can speak double languages

As the tourists from all over the world, the ship guide will serve for you both in English and Chinese. The guide will make vivid explanations for the tourists to make them understand the deep meanings. All the professional captains have more than ten years experience Yangtze River voyages and they are familiar to the season changes of the Yangtze Channels, they can deal with all the conditions that will happen and they are the most important characters on board.

All the Victoria Cruise has young and energetic staff

All the waiters on board have been strictly chosen from the outstanding young people who can speak English, and they have professional hotel training for one year, training on board for three months, and now they can make good service for the tourists.

All the Victoria Cruises have international dinners

There are tourists from all over the world on board, in the arrangement of dinners, breakfast and lunch are self-service dinners both having Chinese and western characteristics. The supper is Chinese style and also has a Chinese dish to meet the tourists' needs.

All the Victoria Cruises have wonderful amusements

All the Victoria Cruises have wonderful amusement activities like Taiji boxing, traditional kites-making, introduction about Three Gorges landscape and Chinese Calligraphy appreciation, etc. At night, there is welcome party by the Captain, arts performance, etc. Apart from this, the tourists who like singing, playing Mahjong, dancing, and massage can use the equipments on board.