• 4 Dinner (D)
• 8 Breakfast (B)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• Vienna: Join your Travel Director and fellow travellers for a drink, followed by a pleasant dinner with wine at a local restaurant. 
• Kraków: For your Dine-Around evening, choose your style of dining from a selection of hand-picked local restaurants, unique in Polish flavour.
• Budapest: Sit down to a Hungarian dinner amid the architectural delights of the city. 

• Prague: Stroll through the Jewish Quarter with your Local Specialist to hear how the Jewish community has shaped the history of Prague, and visit the Old-New Synagogue and the Jewish cemetery.
• Prague: Explore Prague with your Local Specialist, walk the courtyards of the Castle, and visit the imposing St. Vitus Cathedral. The city is then yours to explore. Maybe take a river cruise through the heart of the city, or walk in the footsteps of kings along the Royal Route?

• Budapest: Enjoy a tour of the Liszt Music Academy with a student, followed by an enchanting recital. Producing incredible musical talent, the university was founded by piano virtuoso and composer Franz Liszt in 1875.

Explore the cobbled courtyards of Prague Castle and step inside St. Vitus Cathedral to admire stained glass, royal chapels and a soaring Gothic nave. Views sweep across red roofs to the bridges of the Vltava below.

Seat of Bohemian kings and presidents, the complex charts a millennium of power from Romanesque to Baroque. This visit is offered as one of Prague’s included choices on day 4, ideal for lovers of sacred art and high medieval architecture.

Stroll the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) with a Local Specialist to trace centuries of faith, scholarship and resilience. Visit the Old-New Synagogue and the Old Jewish Cemetery, where timeworn headstones tilt in evocative layers.

Hear stories of the Maharal and the Golem legend, and understand the district’s survival and renewal within Prague’s tapestry. Offered as one of the included choices on day 4, this walk highlights cultural memory and living tradition.

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum with a Memorial Guide Educator to witness preserved barracks and guard towers and the barbed-wire perimeter of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. The experience is conducted with care and historical clarity.

This is a place of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust and a vital site of education. Thoughtful interpretation honours personal testimonies and the imperative to confront intolerance.

Join a Local Specialist to climb Wawel Hill and visit Wawel Cathedral, then continue into the Old Town’s Rynek Glówny to step inside St. Mary’s Basilica and hear the plaintive Hejnal bugle call from the tower.

Royal tombs, guild halls and the arcaded Sukiennice Cloth Hall reveal how kings, merchants and scholars shaped Kraków. Architecture layers Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque details around one of Europe’s grandest medieval squares.

Orava Castle (Oravský hrad) crowns a sheer limestone crag above the Orava River. Pause for photos and reflection as its turrets and terraces etch a dramatic profile against forests and misty mountain passes in northern Slovakia.

Dating from the 13th century and featured in the 1922 film Nosferatu, the stronghold guards the Orava valley and illustrates medieval defenses layered with later Renaissance and Neo-Gothic rebuilds.

Explore Budapest with a Local Specialist, visiting Heroes’ Square and gliding along Andrássy Avenue before crossing to Buda’s cobbled lanes. Climb to Fisherman’s Bastion for a Danube panorama toward the neo-Gothic Parliament.

The tour reveals the city’s dual identity—Habsburg boulevards in Pest and medieval heritage in Buda—tied by bridges and café culture. Architectural highlights span Neo-Classicism to Art Nouveau within one photogenic capital.

Step inside the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music on a student-led tour, culminating in an intimate recital that showcases Hungary’s conservatory tradition. Marvel at gilded interiors and the superb acoustics of its Art Nouveau concert hall.

Founded in 1875 by Franz Liszt, the Academy nurtured figures such as Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. The visit illuminates Budapest’s deep musical lineage and the virtuosity that still resonates through its salons and stages.

Descend by lift and walkway into the UNESCO-listed Wieliczka Salt Mine to discover subterranean chambers, saline lakes and chapels carved entirely from rock salt. Glistening reliefs and chandeliers frame the astonishing Chapel of St Kinga.

This Optional Experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour. Local guides share centuries of mining lore and artistry as you follow well-lit passages at a steady pace—an otherworldly encounter with geology and craftsmanship.

Join a guided panoramic drive along the Ringstrasse to take in the Hofburg Imperial Residence, the Vienna State Opera, the Parliament Building and Karlskirche, framed by palatial facades, statues and leafy parks that circle the Innere Stadt.

Laid out in the 1860s over the former city walls, the boulevard tells Vienna’s story from empire to modern capital. Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic and Baroque Revival architecture line the route, revealing a city designed for ceremony, music and the arts.

Learn the Viennese waltz in an inclusive studio during the Dancing without Barriers workshop. Guided instructors use tactile cues and rhythm to help you master the graceful turn and rise-and-fall steps in a specially designed sensory studio that welcomes all abilities.

Your participation directly supports the visually impaired community and champions equitable access to culture, aligning with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER experience fosters connection through movement and shared music.

Insight Vacations

Discover imperial Vienna as you step inside Schonbrunn Palace with a Local Specialist. Wander State Rooms where court life unfolded, admire the glittering Great Gallery and the intimate Hall of Mirrors where Mozart performed, and view the private apartments of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth opening onto manicured baroque gardens.

Contextualise the Habsburg dynasty’s power at this UNESCO-listed summer residence, a showcase of Rococo decoration, frescoed ceilings and crystal chandeliers. The palace and its geometric parterres reveal how ceremony, politics and personal taste shaped an empire.

Walk the cobbled, traffic-free lanes of Ceský Krumlov on an orientation walk with your Travel Director. The pastel facades of merchants’ houses frame intimate courtyards while the Vltava River curves beneath the ramparts of the hilltop castle.

A UNESCO-listed jewel of Bohemia, the town layers Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque textures, from the Latrán quarter to artisan workshops. Scenic viewpoints offer handsome panoramas of red-tiled roofs and the castle’s round tower.