• 4 Dinner (D)
• 8 Breakfast (B)

• 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.

Meet your Travel Director and fellow travellers over dinner and a drink at a local Vienna restaurant. This hosted gathering offers an introduction to the group and a chance to settle into the Austrian capital.

Share a meal with wine in a city known for its longstanding café and dining traditions. The evening is an opportunity to exchange stories and get acquainted in a relaxed setting.

• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

Insight Vacations

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

Explore Schonbrunn Palace with a Local Expert and walk through its formal gardens. Inside the Habsburgs’ former summer residence, see richly decorated state rooms, including the Hall of Mirrors and Great Gallery, alongside the private apartments of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth.

Gilded Rococo details, frescoed ceilings and crystal chandeliers reveal the scale of imperial court life. Your expert connects these rooms to the dynasty’s politics, rituals and personal stories.

Travel along Vienna’s Ringstrasse for views of the Hofburg Imperial Residence, State Opera and Parliament Building, as well as Karlskirche. This sightseeing drive brings together some of the capital’s most recognisable architectural landmarks.

Laid out where the old city walls once stood, the grand boulevard became a showcase for Vienna’s 19th-century ambitions. Look for the contrasting styles of its monumental buildings, from imperial grandeur to civic confidence.

Learn the Viennese waltz in Dancing without Barriers, an inclusive workshop held in a specially designed sensory studio in Vienna. Follow the music and movement while gaining insight into how the experience is adapted to support people with visual impairments.

The session offers a hands-on connection to one of the city’s best-known cultural traditions. It also introduces the organisation’s work supporting visually impaired children and children from disadvantaged families.

Explore Prague Castle’s courtyards with a Local Expert and visit St Vitus Cathedral on this included Insight Choice experience. Walk through the historic castle complex and see the Gothic cathedral that dominates its skyline.

For centuries, the castle has been a seat of Czech rulers and presidents. The cathedral’s soaring architecture reflects Prague’s royal and religious history. This is one of two included Prague activities; travellers choose it instead of the Jewish Quarter walk.

Walk Prague’s Jewish Quarter with a Local Expert to learn how its Jewish community shaped the city. Visit the Old-New Synagogue and Jewish cemetery while exploring the streets of Josefov.

These places preserve centuries of religious and community history within Prague’s historic centre. Your expert provides context for the quarter’s enduring cultural significance. This is one of two included Prague activities; travellers choose it instead of the castle courtyards and St Vitus Cathedral visit.

Visit Prague’s Old Town Square and see the Astronomical Clock, whose hourly display draws onlookers to the Old Town Hall. Take in the square’s mix of historic facades and the lively public space at the heart of the city.

The clock has marked time here since the early 15th century. Its intricate dial and moving figures reflect Prague’s long fascination with astronomy, craftsmanship and civic display.

Visit the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum with a Memorial Guide Educator at Oswiecim, Poland. View preserved barracks, guard towers and the barbed-wire perimeter of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

This guided visit offers a place for learning and reflection on the Holocaust and the people persecuted and murdered here. The surviving structures and museum interpretation bear witness to events that remain central to understanding 20th-century history.

Visit Wawel Cathedral with a Local Expert on Kraków’s Wawel Hill, where Polish monarchs and statesmen are buried. Walk through the Old Town toward Rynek Glówny, passing sites associated with Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II.

See the medieval Sukiennice Cloth Hall in the vast main square. Your expert traces how royal patronage, trade guilds and university life shaped the streets and buildings of Kraków’s historic centre.

Step inside St Mary’s Basilica, the 14th-century church overlooking Kraków’s main square. Explore one of the city’s most important sacred landmarks and look toward the towers that have defined the square’s skyline for generations.

Listen for the hejnal trumpet call sounded from the taller tower, a tradition closely associated with Kraków. The basilica connects the bustling market square with the city’s centuries of religious and civic life.

Choose your Kraków dining experience from a selection of hand-picked local restaurants. This included Dine-Around evening lets you select a setting and style that appeals to you while sampling flavours of Polish cuisine.

Dining in the city offers a different perspective on its traditions, from familiar regional dishes to the character of its restaurant rooms. The choice of venues makes the meal a more personal way to experience Kraków.

Tour Budapest’s Liszt Music Academy with a student and hear a recital by one of its musicians. See a place where performers study and practise, and experience its musical tradition through a live performance.

Founded in 1875 by composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, the academy remains closely tied to Hungary’s cultural life. The student perspective adds a personal dimension to a visit centred on music-making, not just the institution’s history.

Explore Budapest with a Local Expert, visiting Heroes’ Square and travelling along elegant Andrássy Boulevard in Pest. Across the Danube, walk the medieval streets of Buda’s Old Town and take in the views from Fisherman’s Bastion.

The experience brings together the city’s two distinct sides: Pest’s broad boulevards and monuments, and Buda’s hilltop historic quarter. From the bastion, the Danube and Pest’s skyline reveal the geography that gives Budapest its character.

Taste Hungarian specialities with selected wines at a hosted dinner in Budapest. Sit down with fellow travellers to enjoy the country’s flavours against the backdrop of the capital’s architecture.

Hungarian cooking draws on longstanding regional traditions, while the paired wines offer another introduction to local tastes. This included dining experience makes food and conversation the focus of an evening in the city.

Descend into the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków to discover a subterranean network of tunnels, salt sculptures and underground lakes. See the remarkable chapel carved from rock salt by miners, with details that turn the workings of a mine into an unexpected artistic space.

Worked for centuries, Wieliczka reveals the skill and labour behind Poland’s historic salt industry. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Walk the medieval streets of Ceský Krumlov on an orientation led by your Travel Director. Discover cobbled lanes and colourful houses in the historic centre, set within a sweeping bend of the Vltava River.

The town’s castle rises above a compact streetscape shaped over centuries. Its preserved layout and riverside setting make this a distinctive introduction to South Bohemia’s architectural heritage, with views that show how closely the settlement follows the river.