• 6 Dinner (D)
• 13 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.

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

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Meet your Travel Director and fellow travellers over dinner at a local Budapest restaurant. Taste Hungarian specialities accompanied by selected Hungarian wine in a setting designed for a relaxed introduction to the group.

Hungarian cooking draws on ingredients such as paprika, seasonal vegetables and slow-cooked meats. This hosted meal offers a flavour of the country’s food traditions as well as a chance to get to know your travelling companions.

Explore Budapest’s Liszt Academy of Music on a guided tour and hear a recital in an institution founded by composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt in 1875. A student-led perspective offers insight into the academy’s continuing role in Hungarian musical life.

Music is part of the city’s cultural identity, and the recital brings that tradition into focus. On some departures, this experience is replaced by an organ recital at Matthias Church.

Explore Buda’s Old Town with a Local Expert, admiring the patterned-roof facade of Matthias Church and taking in the Danube views from Fisherman’s Bastion. The terraces frame Budapest’s riverfront and the Pest skyline across the water.

Set on Castle Hill, this historic quarter reflects centuries of Hungarian royal and civic life. Its lanes, church towers and lookout points offer a close-up view of one of the capital’s most distinctive districts.

Walk Kraków’s Old Town with a Local Expert, exploring Wawel Hill and stepping inside Wawel Cathedral, the burial place of Polish monarchs and statesmen. Continue through the historic centre to the Main Market Square, the Sukiennice Cloth Hall and St Mary’s Basilica.

Wawel’s chapels record successive dynasties, while the square remains the heart of Kraków’s civic life. Listen for the trumpet call sounded from St Mary’s tower, a tradition closely associated with the city.

Visit the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum near Oswiecim with a Memorial Guide Educator. Walk through preserved areas of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, viewing barracks, guard towers and the barbed-wire perimeter.

This is a place of remembrance for the people persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust. The guided visit provides historical context while allowing time for quiet reflection amid the surviving structures and memorials.

Discover Warsaw with a Local Expert, seeing the Old Town, Royal Castle and Palace of Culture and Science. Visit the Chopin Memorial in Lazienki Park and pay your respects at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes.

Warsaw’s historic centre was painstakingly rebuilt following the Second World War. Together, its restored streets and memorials reveal both the city’s cultural achievements and the profound losses endured by its people.

Explore Berlin with a Local Expert, travelling through the Tiergarten towards the Reichstag and pausing for a photograph at the Brandenburg Gate. The sightseeing route also takes in the Ku’damm, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Unter den Linden, the State Opera and Museum Island.

These landmarks trace Berlin’s imperial past, wartime destruction, division and reunification. The church’s damaged spire remains a memorial, while the Brandenburg Gate has become a defining symbol of a reunited city.

Explore central Dresden with your Travel Director, seeing the reconstructed Frauenkirche, the Baroque Zwinger Palace and the Semperoper. Admire the Procession of the Princes, a long porcelain-tile mural depicting Saxony’s rulers.

Devastated by air raids in 1945, Dresden has restored many of the buildings that once defined its skyline. This orientation offers a view of the city’s Saxon heritage and the care invested in its reconstruction.

Enjoy a progressive Dine-Around dinner at venues in Prague’s Malá Strana district. Moving between settings gives you a taste of this historic neighbourhood beneath Prague Castle, with a visit to Charles Bridge completing the experience.

Malá Strana’s streets and squares have long connected the castle to the Vltava. Charles Bridge, lined with statues and framed by towers, brings centuries of Prague history into view against the city’s spired skyline.

Explore Prague Castle with a Local Expert, walking its courtyards and visiting St Vitus Cathedral. The cathedral’s Gothic scale and intricate stonework make it a focal point of the castle complex overlooking the city.

Prague Castle has served as a seat of power for centuries, and its buildings reflect successive periods of Czech history. A guided visit helps make sense of the complex’s royal and religious significance.

Visit Schonbrunn Palace with a Local Expert to explore the Habsburgs’ grand Vienna residence and its formal gardens. See richly decorated rooms associated with court life, including the Great Gallery and the private apartments of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth.

The palace reflects the power and tastes of a dynasty that shaped Central Europe for centuries. Its ceremonial spaces, including the Hall of Mirrors where Mozart performed as a child, reveal how politics, ritual and family life met at court.

Tour Vienna with a Local Expert along the grand Ringstrasse, seeing the Hofburg Imperial Residence, Vienna State Opera, Austrian Parliament Building and Karlskirche. The boulevard offers a broad view of the architecture surrounding the historic centre.

Built on the line of Vienna’s former city walls, the Ringstrasse became a showcase for the imperial capital in the 19th century. Its monumental buildings reveal the ambitions and cultural life of Habsburg-era Vienna.

Choose a traditional Viennese coffeehouse visit and sit down to coffee and Sachertorte, the city’s chocolate cake served as part of its café tradition. This is one of two included Insight Choice experiences available in Vienna.

Vienna’s coffeehouses are places to linger over conversation as well as refreshments. Choosing this experience offers a taste of an enduring local custom in a setting closely associated with the city’s social and cultural life.

Choose to learn the Viennese Waltz in an inclusive sensory-studio workshop designed to support awareness of visual impairment. Exclusive to Insight Vacations guests, Dancing without Barriers uses movement and the senses to make this Viennese tradition accessible.

This is one of two included Insight Choice experiences in Vienna. The organisation’s foundation supports children from disadvantaged families and children with visual impairments, giving the workshop a purpose beyond the dance floor.

Enjoy traditional Austrian fare and drinks at a local Vienna restaurant, paired with a concert of Viennese classical music. The programme pays homage to Mozart and Strauss, two composers closely linked with the city’s musical identity.

Vienna’s concert tradition grew alongside its imperial courts and public music venues. Combining a hosted dinner with live performance brings its cuisine and musical heritage together in one evening experience.

Cruise the Danube through Budapest and view the city’s riverfront landmarks from the water while enjoying a meal of Hungarian specialities. Bridges link the historic hills of Buda with the broad avenues of Pest, creating a striking setting for an evening cruise.

This Optional Experience offers a different perspective on the capital’s architecture and riverside atmosphere. It is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Descend into the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków to explore a network of underground passages shaped by centuries of mining. See salt sculptures, subterranean lakes and a remarkable chapel carved by miners from the rock salt itself.

Mining at Wieliczka began in the Middle Ages, leaving an underground record of craftsmanship and working life. This Optional Experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Dine at a country mansion near Vienna for an optional Austrian meal in a setting beyond the city centre. It is an opportunity to spend an evening around the table and sample local cuisine in country-house surroundings.

Austria’s food traditions extend well beyond Vienna’s grand cafés, and a mansion setting offers a contrasting atmosphere for dinner. This Optional Experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Walk Ceský Krumlov’s cobbled medieval streets on an orientation with your Travel Director, then visit its centuries-old castle with a Local Expert. Explore the castle’s courtyards and historic interiors, including chambers, kitchens and dungeons.

The town curves around the Vltava River beneath its imposing castle and is recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its preserved streets and layered castle complex offer a close look at South Bohemia’s architectural and noble heritage.

Taste South Bohemian specialities at a local restaurant in the centre of Ceský Krumlov. Choose from regional dishes and enjoy the hospitality of a town whose compact historic streets invite a slower pace in the evening.

This hosted dinner is an opportunity to encounter Czech food traditions in a local setting. Beyond the restaurant, the town’s medieval buildings and castle provide a distinctive backdrop once the busiest visiting hours have passed.

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