Czech Highlights & Christmas in Prague

Ferry to Calais and overnight stay in Germany.

Czech Highlights & Christmas in Prague

Continue to our centrally located hotel in Prague, arriving in time for dinner.

Czech Highlights & Christmas in Prague

Today we enjoy a guided city tour of Prague, where highlights include the Old Town Square, famous for its ancient buildings such as the Old Town Hall with its Astronomical Clock that has been keeping time since 1410. After the tour concludes, enjoy free time to explore Prague and its festive Christmas markets before making your own way back to our centrally located hotel, where we are treated to a special Christmas Eve Gala.

Czech Highlights & Christmas in Prague

Today, we take a guided tour of Karlovy Vary, the crown jewel of western Bohemia and one of Europe’s most celebrated spa towns. Our visit begins with a leisurely coach overview, offering a wonderful first glimpse of the town’s elegant architecture, colourful facades and lush, forested hillsides that frame the valley. After taking in these beautiful views, we continue on foot to explore the heart of the Old Town. Strolling through its charming streets, we discover the town’s colonnades, each with its own distinctive character and history, before pausing to admire the bubbling hot springs that have drawn visitors here for centuries. Take the chance to stroll along the riverside spa district, where promenades follow the curve of the Teplá River.

Czech Highlights & Christmas in Prague

We start the morning with a guided walking tour of the grounds of Prague Castle, which sits imposingly above the city. Dating back to the 9th century, it is the largest castle complex in the world and is made up of several magnificent buildings, including palaces, churches, gardens and defence towers. Our tour then takes us down the hill and across the Charles Bridge into the city centre, where we have free time to explore the markets, before making our own way back to the hotel. This evening, we take a special dinner cruise on the River Vltava.

Czech Highlights & Christmas in Prague

We make our way to Pilsner Urquell Brewery, home to the world’s first golden lager. We enjoy a guided tour here and find out about centuries of brewing tradition, followed by a tasting of their famous unfiltered beer. We are then treated to lunch at Na Spilce, a restaurant housed in the former fermentation halls right beside the brewery. Afterwards, there’s free time to explore Plzen, visit the impressive St Bartholomew’s Cathedral, or simply relax in one of its cafés. Later, we return to our hotel for dinner.

Czech Highlights & Christmas in Prague

Today, we travel to our overnight hotel in Germany and enjoy a light evening meal.

Czech Highlights & Christmas in Prague

Continue on to Calais for our return ferry home.

Celebrate in the city with a Christmas Eve gathering at your hotel, featuring a festive gala buffet dinner in a warm, candlelit setting. Winter greenery, soft music and the glow of Prague beyond the windows set a convivial holiday mood.

Enjoy seasonal Czech and international flavours as you raise a toast with fellow travellers—an elegant pause in the heart of Bohemia that blends tradition, hospitality and the quiet charm of a Prague winter evening.

Walk the ridge-top precincts on a guided walk of Prague Castle grounds, taking in grand courtyards, palace facades and the soaring mass of St Vitus Cathedral. Stroll past historic lanes like Golden Lane and pause for sweeping views over red rooftops tumbling to the river below.

Founded in the 9th century and celebrated as the largest castle complex in the world, this seat of kings and presidents reveals a millennium of faith and power. A crossing of the statue-lined Charles Bridge links the hill to the Lesser Town, where domes and bell towers frame the Vltava’s banks.

Cruise the River Vltava on a special evening voyage, gliding beneath centuries-old arches as Prague Castle glows above the water and the cupolas of Malá Strana shimmer in the current. Gentle currents and city lights set an elegant, unhurried mood.

Savour a leisurely dinner on board while landmark silhouettes—Charles Bridge, the National Theatre and riverside palaces—slip by the windows. The illuminated embankments and reflected facades offer a calm, cinematic perspective on Prague’s historic core.

Discover the elegance of western Bohemia on a guided excursion to Karlovy Vary, where pastel villas nestle between forested slopes and the Teplá River curves through a sheltered valley. The town’s spa architecture lends a refined, Belle Époque air.

Walk the Mill and Market colonnades, feel the warmth rising from bubbling hot springs, and follow the Teplá River promenade past cast-iron arcades. Founded under Charles IV and favoured by Europe’s fashionable set, Karlovy Vary blends ritual promenade with serene parkland and gracious café culture.

Explore Prague’s medieval heart on a guided walking tour through cobbled lanes and story-filled passages to the grand stage of Old Town Square. Gather by the Old Town Hall with its Astronomical Clock as carved figures parade on the hour, and admire the Gothic spires of the Church of Our Lady before Týn rising above baroque facades and café arcades.

Hear how trade guilds, royal pageantry and civic protest shaped these streets—from Charles IV’s imperial vision to a modern republic—while your guide points out artisan courtyards, hushed passageways and the architectural layers that define this atmospheric district.

Visit Plzen for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery, birthplace in 1842 of the world’s first golden lager. Trace the journey from gleaming copper brewhouses to cool, labyrinthine cellars and learn how water, malt and Saaz hops define a global classic.

Conclude with a tasting of unfiltered beer drawn straight from the oak cask, then enjoy lunch at Na Spilce inside the former fermentation halls. Nearby, the Gothic tower of St Bartholomew’s Cathedral testifies to Plzen’s proud history and skyline.