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Itineraries of the Century Legend

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decks plans

Deck - 7

Bridge
Bridge

Deck - 6

Observation
Observation

Deck - 5

Sun
Sun

Deck - 4

Upper
Upper

Deck - 3

Promenade
Promenade

Deck - 2

Main
Main

Deck - 1

Lower
Lower

Technical specifications

  • Decks:  7

Fourteen itineraries announcing Basel and ending in Shanghai

Let us start with what we found in our own system, because it concerns you directly. This page carries fourteen departure dates, and their label announces a one-way trip from Basel to Shanghai. We checked the itinerary detail: it mixes Amsterdam, Basel, Beijing, Chongqing, Wuhan, the Yangtze and Shanghai. It is a combined Europe-and-China product attached to a ship that only sails the Chinese portion.

The anomaly is confirmed at source and is being corrected. We name it here rather than let it mislead you: no Yangtze ship climbs the Rhine.

The ship, and who runs her

The Century Legend belongs to a Chinese shipowner based in Chongqing. The line marketed her under partial charter, as other major Western brands have done. The ship no longer appears in the fleet the line publishes, and China no longer appears in its catalogue.

One hundred and forty-two metres, 196 staterooms, 398 travellers, seven decks, built in 2013 and rebuilt in 2022. A heated indoor pool of around two hundred square metres, two lifts, a seven-storey atrium, two restaurants, a cinema, a spa. Electric propulsion with azimuth thrusters reduces noise and vibration, presented as a first on this river.

An honest remark: with close to four hundred travellers, this ship is nothing like a small vessel. She sits at the opposite end from the positioning the line defends on its other rivers, and that partly explains why she no longer appears there.

The active ships in the fleet

The Avalon Saigon holds the Mekong. The MS Farah holds the Nile. The Delfin III sails the Peruvian Amazon. The Avalon Expression is a European hull.

What this trip asks of you from Montreal

A transatlantic flight, not included in the fare. Some embarkation cities are reachable non-stop in high season, others need a connection. Total door-to-door time often exceeds what the brochure suggests, and that has to be planned for.

Arrive the day before at the very least. It is the only margin that absorbs a delay, a lost bag or a sleepless flight. Many of our clients take two nights in the city before embarking and have never regretted the expense.

Our advisors bring flight, cruise, hotels, transfers and insurance into a single file protected by Quebec's compensation fund for travel agency customers. Write to us: we will verify the real dates before anything is booked.

Frequently Asked Questions

That is an anomaly in our data, confirmed at source and being corrected. The label comes from a combined Europe-and-China product attached to a ship that sails only the Chinese portion of the route.
No, never. She is a Yangtze ship, run in China between Chongqing and Yichang, sometimes as far as Shanghai. No Yangtze ship sails in Europe.
A Chinese shipowner based in Chongqing. The line marketed her under partial charter, as other major Western brands did before and after it.
No. The ship no longer appears in the fleet it publishes and China no longer appears in its catalogue. We keep this page because the name keeps being searched.
One hundred and forty-two metres, one hundred and ninety-six staterooms, three hundred and ninety-eight travellers, seven decks. She is a very large river vessel, on a different scale from the brand's European hulls.
Yes, a heated indoor pool of around two hundred square metres. The ship also has two lifts, a seven-storey atrium, two restaurants, a cinema and a spa.
She has two lifts, which is rare in river cruising and a real advantage. Chinese quays and the excursions themselves remain demanding, with a great many steps.
She underwent a major rebuild in 2022, nine years after construction. That is documented by Chinese sources specialising in Yangtze cruising.
The ship uses electrically driven azimuth thrusters, which reduce noise and vibration in the staterooms. It is presented as a first on this river, and the difference is audible at night.
As a block inside a China tour including internal flights, hotels and guided sightseeing. The Yangtze cruise was never sold on its own by this line.
Yes, the Chinese owner still operates this ship and other brands sell space aboard. Write to us with your dates and we will check what actually exists for a Quebec traveller.
The contractual detail of this programme is no longer available on an up-to-date official page, since the line no longer sells it. We do not reconstruct it from memory.
No, and that should be said. Close to four hundred travellers is a mass experience, at the opposite end from the small-ship positioning the line defends on its European rivers.
There is not always an exact replacement, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. We look instead for what comes closest to what you wanted, telling you plainly what differs.
We first check what actually exists on the date you have in mind, then build flight, lodging, cruise, transfers and insurance into one file, under the protection of Quebec's compensation fund for travel agency customers.
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