• 6 Dinner (D)
• 13 Breakfast (B)

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

• Budapest: Dine in elegance and savour Hungarian delicacies accompanied with specially selected Hungarian wine during your dinner.
• Prague: Upon arrival to ”The Golden City”, you are invited to a Dine-Around progressive dinner experience in a number of exciting venues in the heart of Prague’s Mala Strana district, topped off with a visit to the famous Charles bridge!
• Cesky Krumlov: Experience South Bohemian flavours and hospitality when you choose from a selection of regional specialities in a local restaurant in the town centre.
• Vienna: Your Imperial Viennese dinner is regal splendour on a plate. Enjoy a delicious traditional meal with drinks at a local restaurant, before a concert of classical music that pays homage to the genius of Strauss and Mozart.

• 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.

• Vienna: Visit a traditional coffeehouse to enjoy Viennese specialities of coffee and Sachertorte.
• Vienna: Learn the Viennese Waltz in an inclusive workshop designed to support the visually impaired community. ‘Dancing without Barriers’ takes place in a specially designed sensory studio, promising a unique experience for all your senses. This workshop focuses on inclusion and education around the topic of visual impairment. Through their foundation, the organisation supports children from disadvantaged families and children with a visual impairment. This experience advances United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities. 

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum with a Memorial Guide Educator, moving quietly among preserved barracks, guard towers and the barbed-wire perimeter. The stark landscape and personal testimonies confront the magnitude of the Holocaust with dignity and respect.

Contextual interpretation deepens understanding of the camp’s function within Nazi occupation and genocide. This solemn encounter invites reflection, remembrance and a renewed commitment to human rights and vigilance against hatred.

Join your Local Specialist along Kurfurstendamm to the shattered spire of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, a powerful peace symbol. Cross the Tiergarten to the Reichstag’s glass dome, reflecting a democratic era above a storied past.

Stand beneath the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate and follow Unter den Linden past the State Opera to UNESCO-listed Museum Island. Imperial facades and modern lines chart Berlin’s journey from empire to division and reunification.

Admire the porcelain brilliance of the Procession of the Princes mosaic and the domed grace of the Frauenkirche during an orientation with your Travel Director. Dark stones salvaged from the ruins punctuate its restored walls, a visible testament to memory.

See the sculpted fountains and baroque pavilions of the Zwinger, and the opera heritage of the Semperoper. The Saxon capital’s revived beauty blends courtly exuberance with a reflective postwar soul.

Walk the grand squares of Prague Castle with your Local Specialist and step inside St. Vitus Cathedral, where jewel-bright stained glass glows beneath soaring Gothic ribs. Coronations, saints and dynasties echo in stone and light.

From castle ramparts, take in the red roofs of Malá Strana and the sinuous line of the Vltava. This crown of Bohemia reveals layers of spiritual, royal and artistic life at the heart of the Czech lands.

Savor a Dine-Around progressive dinner across handpicked restaurants in Malá Strana, sampling modern takes on Czech classics alongside crisp Czech pilsners or local wines. Each course introduces a different neighborhood flavor.

Conclude with a gentle walk to Charles Bridge, where gas lamps flicker over baroque statues and the Vltava glides beneath stone arches. It’s a culinary and atmospheric portrait of Prague after dark.

Visit Schonbrunn Palace with your Local Specialist to see the Hall of Mirrors, where Mozart performed as a child, and the Great Gallery used for Habsburg court festivities. Step into gardens patterned like embroidered parterres.

Continue along the Ringstrasse to view the Hofburg, State Opera, Parliament and Karlskirche. Imperial facades and grand boulevards reveal Vienna’s synthesis of politics, art and music.

Take a marble-topped table in a traditional Viennese coffeehouse and order a creamy melange with a slice of Sachertorte. Silver trays, linen napkins and measured service reflect an institution where time stretches and ideas mingle.

This cultural ritual celebrates conversation and reflection as much as flavor. It forms one of your included Choice Highlights in Vienna, offered as an alternative to the waltz workshop for a different lens on the city’s soul.

Count “one-two-three” as you learn the Viennese Waltz in an inclusive studio where Dancing without Barriers supports the visually impaired community. Guided by expert instructors, feel rhythm and posture merge into graceful turns.

This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience combines cultural heritage with social impact, offering a meaningful alternative to the coffeehouse Choice Highlight while advancing inclusion through arts education.

Share a traditional Austrian dinner with drinks at a refined local restaurant before taking your seat for a classical concert. Waltzes, polkas and arias by Strauss and Mozart fill the hall as bows sweep in unison.

The elegant setting, gleaming wood and warm acoustics capture Vienna’s devotion to music, pairing culinary tradition with the city’s most beloved art form.

Cruise the Danube at night as a multi-course dinner is served on board. The Chain Bridge, Buda Castle and the Hungarian Parliament glow against the water, their reflections trailing like ribbons across the current.

This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour, combining Hungary’s favorite flavors with Budapest’s most cinematic views.

Descend a timber staircase into the Wieliczka Salt Mine, where tunnels open to saline lakes and entire chapels carved from rock salt. In St Kinga’s Chapel, chandeliers glitter and reliefs glow with pearly light.

This UNESCO-listed labyrinth reveals centuries of craft and devotion beneath Kraków. It is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Take your seat in an intimate salon for a Chopin recital where nocturnes, waltzes and mazurkas flow from the keyboard with crystalline precision. The music’s shifting moods echo the city’s grace and resilience.

This Optional Experience is offered at additional cost and is bookable on tour, providing a refined window into Poland’s most celebrated composer.

Travel beyond the city for a country mansion dinner showcasing seasonal Austrian specialities and local wines. Candlelight, polished wood and garden views set a leisurely rhythm for conversation.

This Optional Experience is available at additional cost and bookable on tour, offering a convivial taste of rural hospitality just beyond Vienna’s grand boulevards.

Glide along the water on a cruise of the Vltava River, drifting beneath Charles Bridge as statues pass overhead and arches frame reflections. Views of Prague Castle and the National Theatre unfold from a relaxed riverside vantage.

This Optional Experience is offered at additional cost and bookable on tour, ideal for easy sightseeing with time to enjoy the city’s silhouette from the water.

Taste Hungarian delicacies as you meet your Travel Director and fellow travellers at an elegant local restaurant. Expect paprika-scented stews, seasonal salads and light pastries, paired with specially selected Hungarian wine that highlights the country’s diverse regions.

Hear how Ottoman spices, Habsburg kitchens and countryside traditions shaped the dishes on your table. The warm hospitality and lively conversation set the tone for your journey as glasses clink and the aromas of slow-cooked flavors fill the room.

Follow your Local Specialist up Wawel Hill to Wawel Cathedral, burial place of Polish monarchs and a church closely associated with Pope John Paul II. Continue through the medieval lanes to Rynek Glówny, where the arcaded Sukiennice anchors Europe’s largest market square.

Step inside St. Mary’s Basilica to admire jewel-toned vaults and the famed high altar before the hejnal trumpet call drifts from the tower. Learn how Kraków’s trade wealth, royal patronage and faith shaped its enduring elegance.

Discover the golden balconies and floral motifs of the Art Nouveau Grand Hall as you join a tour of the Liszt Music Academy with a student guide. Settle in for a brief recital that shows off the hall’s famed acoustics, each note unfolding with clarity and warmth.

Founded by Franz Liszt in 1875, the academy nurtured generations of virtuosi. On some departures, this experience may be replaced by an evocative organ recital at Matthias Church, celebrating Budapest’s musical heritage in sacred space.

Insight Vacations

Explore Buda’s UNESCO-listed Castle District with your Local Specialist, where cobbled lanes crest the hill to the ornate roof of Matthias Church. From the neo-Romanesque terraces of Fisherman’s Bastion, gaze across the Danube to the glowing neo-Gothic silhouette of the Hungarian Parliament, its spires mirrored in the river.

Hear how this royal quarter evolved from medieval fort to Habsburg stronghold, and why the bastion’s seven towers symbolize the Magyar tribes. Join a guided walk that blends sweeping panoramas with stories of kings, sieges and revival.

Discover the phoenix-like Warsaw Old Town, meticulously rebuilt after WWII, as your Local Specialist leads you past the Royal Castle and painted merchant houses. Look up at the socialist-realist height of the Palace of Culture, a controversial icon that still defines the skyline.

Stroll tree-lined paths in Lazienki to the Chopin Memorial, then pause at the Ghetto Heroes Monument. Stories of resistance, cultural rebirth and modern ambition reveal a capital that refuses to be defined by loss.

Follow your Travel Director through the winding lanes of this riverside town before a Local Specialist leads you through Ceský Krumlov Castle. Cross the tiered arches of the Cloak Bridge and pass painted facades that mimic columns and windows in trompe-l’œil style.

Within this UNESCO-listed old town, Renaissance courtyards, medieval towers and the looping Vltava create a fairy-tale setting grounded in authentic South Bohemian history.

Enjoy South Bohemian flavours at a local restaurant in the heart of Ceský Krumlov, where regional dishes might include roast duck, bread dumplings and braised cabbage, paired with a lager from a nearby brewery or a glass of Moravian wine.

As conversation flows, the medieval streets outside grow quiet and the river murmurs below the town walls. Rustic recipes and warm hospitality capture the character of this storied region.