• 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.

Insight Vacations

Meet your Travel Director and fellow travellers over a hosted dinner at a local Budapest restaurant. Taste Hungarian specialities accompanied by carefully selected Hungarian wine, with time to settle into the convivial rhythm of a shared table.

Hungarian cooking draws on ingredients such as paprika, seasonal vegetables and slow-cooked meats. This dinner offers an introduction to the country’s food culture, as well as a chance to get to know the people travelling with you.

Explore Budapest’s Liszt Academy of Music on a guided visit and listen to a recital in a setting dedicated to musical performance. Founded in 1875 by composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, the academy remains central to Hungary’s musical life.

The experience brings you close to a living artistic tradition rather than presenting music solely as museum history. On some departures, an organ recital at Matthias Church replaces the academy visit and recital.

Explore Buda’s historic Old Town with a Local Expert, admiring the distinctive facade of Matthias Church and taking in the views from Fisherman’s Bastion. Its terraces look across the Danube towards Pest and the Hungarian Parliament Building.

The Castle District’s cobbled streets and centuries-old buildings evoke Budapest’s royal past. Your guide adds context to the landmarks while the Bastion’s arcades provide a vantage point over the river and the two halves of the city.

Take in the Low Tatra Mountains while travelling through Slovakia, with a scenic stop at Donovaly. See Orava Castle, known locally as Oravský hrad, rising dramatically above the village of Oravský Podzámok.

Built on a steep rock outcrop, the castle has watched over the Orava region for centuries. Mountain landscapes, traditional wooden houses and the fortress’s layered silhouette offer a glimpse of northern Slovakia’s rural and medieval heritage. A castle interior visit is not specified.

Explore Kraków with a Local Expert, ascending Wawel Hill to visit Wawel Cathedral and walking through the Old Town to the Main Market Square. See the medieval Cloth Hall and step inside the 14th-century St Mary’s Basilica.

Wawel Cathedral is the burial place of Polish monarchs and statesmen, while the vast square has long been the city’s civic heart. Listen for the trumpet call sounded from St Mary’s tower, a distinctive Kraków tradition.

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

This is a place for learning and remembrance, not conventional sightseeing. The surviving structures and memorials bear witness to the people persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust, and the guided visit provides historical context for a difficult, deeply important chapter of European history.

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.

The route reveals a capital shaped by artistic achievement, wartime destruction and reconstruction. Warsaw’s rebuilt Old Town stands in contrast to its Soviet-era skyline, while the memorials honour both the composer closely associated with the city and those who resisted persecution in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Explore Berlin with a Local Expert, travelling through the leafy Tiergarten towards the Reichstag and pausing for a photograph at the Brandenburg Gate. See Unter den Linden, the State Opera and Museum Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The sightseeing connects Berlin’s imperial landmarks with the geography of its Cold War division and reunification. A view of the Reichstag’s modern glass dome and the former East Berlin boulevard helps make the city’s changing political identity tangible.

Walk through Dresden’s historic centre with your Travel Director to see the reconstructed Frauenkirche and the monumental Procession of the Princes mural on the Royal Palace wall. Take in the facades of the Semperoper and Baroque Zwinger Palace.

Much of central Dresden was devastated by air raids in 1945. Its restored landmarks reveal both the splendour of Saxony’s former royal capital and the painstaking work of rebuilding a cityscape from what survived.

Enjoy a progressive dinner in Prague’s Malá Strana, dining across a selection of venues in the historic district. The hosted experience also includes a visit to the Charles Bridge, which links Malá Strana with the Old Town across the Vltava.

Baroque facades and narrow streets give this neighbourhood its distinctive character. Moving between venues makes dinner an introduction to the district itself, while the medieval bridge offers a close look at one of Prague’s best-known landmarks.

Explore Prague Castle with a Local Expert, walking its courtyards and visiting the imposing St Vitus Cathedral. The castle complex occupies a commanding position above the Vltava and has been a seat of Czech power for more than a thousand years.

Inside the Gothic cathedral, centuries of royal and religious history come into focus through its soaring architecture. The guided visit offers a grounded introduction to Prague’s historic centre and the landmarks that shape its skyline.

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

Schonbrunn’s ceremonial spaces reflect the political reach and elaborate rituals of the imperial court. Details such as the Hall of Mirrors, where Mozart performed as a child, connect the palace’s splendour with the people who lived and worked there.

Tour Vienna with a Local Expert and follow the grand Ringstrasse past the Vienna State Opera, Hofburg and Austrian Parliament Building. See Karlskirche and pause for photographs of the capital’s monumental architecture.

Built on the line of Vienna’s former city fortifications, the Ringstrasse became a showcase for the Habsburg capital in the 19th century. The tour places its celebrated buildings within that broader story of imperial ambition and urban change.

Choose a traditional Viennese coffeehouse visit and enjoy coffee with a slice of Sachertorte, the city’s well-known chocolate cake. This is one of two included Insight Choice activities offered during your time in Vienna.

Vienna’s coffeehouses have long been places to read, converse and linger over a drink. Experiencing that unhurried ritual gives the familiar pairing of coffee and cake a cultural setting that is distinctly Viennese.

Choose an inclusive Viennese Waltz workshop in a specially designed sensory studio. Created for Insight Vacations guests, Dancing Without Barriers introduces the steps and rhythm of the waltz while encouraging awareness of visual impairment.

This is one of two included Insight Choice activities in Vienna. Its host organisation’s foundation supports children from disadvantaged families and children with visual impairments, giving the workshop a purpose that extends beyond learning a dance associated with the city.

Dine on traditional Austrian fare with drinks at a local Vienna restaurant, followed by a concert celebrating the music of Strauss and Mozart. The evening brings two strands of the city’s cultural identity—its cuisine and its classical music—into one hosted experience.

Vienna was central to both composers’ careers and remains closely identified with concert-going. Hearing their music performed in the Austrian capital offers a fitting perspective on a heritage still woven into the city’s cultural life.

Cruise the Danube through Budapest and enjoy a meal of Hungarian specialities on this optional evening experience. From the water, take in the city’s riverfront and the historic districts of Buda and Pest from a different perspective.

Budapest’s bridges and grand embankments were shaped by the river that joins the two sides of the capital. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; confirm the cruise and dining arrangements with your Travel Director.

Explore the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków on an optional visit through its underground passages. See salt sculptures, subterranean lakes and an ornate chapel carved from rock salt by miners.

Mining at Wieliczka stretches back centuries, and its chambers preserve evidence of both demanding industrial work and remarkable craftsmanship. The descent reveals an unexpected world beneath southern Poland. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Listen to a Chopin recital in Warsaw if you choose this suggested optional experience. Hearing the composer’s music in the Polish capital adds a musical dimension to the city landmarks associated with his life.

Frédéric Chopin spent his formative years in Warsaw, and his piano works remain an important part of its cultural identity. A recital offers time to focus on that connection. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability.

Dine at an Austrian country mansion during your time in Vienna if you choose this optional evening experience. It offers a hosted meal in a setting beyond the city centre, with an opportunity to enjoy Austrian cuisine.

The country-house setting provides a different atmosphere from Vienna’s grand boulevards and coffeehouses. Specific dishes and venue details may vary; your Travel Director can confirm the arrangements. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Walk Ceský Krumlov’s medieval streets with your Travel Director and visit its centuries-old castle. A Local Expert leads the castle exploration through courtyards and historic interiors, including chambers, kitchens and dungeons.

The Vltava River curves around this UNESCO-listed South Bohemian town, where closely packed rooftops sit beneath the vast castle complex. Its rooms and service spaces offer a revealing contrast between noble life and the work that sustained a great residence.

Taste South Bohemian specialities at a local restaurant in the centre of Ceský Krumlov, choosing from a selection of regional dishes. The meal offers a relaxed way to experience the town’s hospitality beyond its castle and cobbled lanes.

Dining in the historic centre brings you close to Ceský Krumlov’s evening atmosphere, when its narrow streets grow quieter. Regional flavours and the small-town setting make this a distinct cultural experience rather than a routine hotel dinner.

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