• 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 savor 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 flavors and hospitality when you choose from a selection of regional specialties in a local restaurant in the town center.
• Vienna: Your Imperial Viennese dinner is regal splendor 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 specialties 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 organization supports children from disadvantaged families and children with a visual impairment. This experience advances United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities. 

Join a guided panoramic tour along the Ku’damm to the scarred spire of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, then glide through the Tiergarten toward the glass dome of the Reichstag and the neoclassical Brandenburg Gate.

Follow Unter den Linden past the State Opera to Museum Island, a UNESCO ensemble of domes, colonnades and the Spree’s arched bridges. Hear stories of imperial grandeur, wartime fracture and creative resurgence that define Berlin’s shifting skyline and layered identity.

Take an orientation with your Travel Director to view the Frauenkirche, the Baroque pavilions of the Zwinger Palace and the Semperoper, then admire the shimmering Procession of the Princes mosaic stretching along Augustusstrasse.

Pieced together after 1990, the Frauenkirche’s contrasting stones reveal Dresden’s wartime scars. Along the palace wall, 24,000 Meissen tiles depict Saxon rulers on horseback—an open-air chronicle of courtly pageantry and porcelain mastery.

Explore Prague Castle with a Local Specialist, crossing historic courtyards to St. Vitus Cathedral. Inside, radiant stained glass in ruby and sapphire rises to ribbed vaults above the tombs of Bohemian kings.

Hear how monarchs processed along the Royal Route to their coronations here. From castle terraces, take in spires and bridges over the Vltava while your guide connects medieval artisans, Habsburg power and modern restoration shaping this UNESCO-listed complex.

Visit Schonbrunn Palace with a Local Specialist to see the Hall of Mirrors where young Mozart performed, the opulent Great Gallery and the private apartments of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth.

Continue along the Ringstrasse past the State Opera, Hofburg and Parliament to Karlskirche’s green dome. Hear how court ritual, politics and personal taste shaped Habsburg Vienna, from baroque interiors to grand 19th-century boulevards.

Visit a traditional Viennese coffeehouse and settle at a marble-topped table for a melange or Einspänner alongside Sachertorte. Silver trays, mirrored walls and newspapers on wooden holders set the timeless mood.

This is one of your included Choice Highlights in Vienna. Learn how café culture shaped debate, literature and music as the roasted aroma fills the room and you savor dense chocolate balanced by lightly whipped cream.

Join an Inclusive Viennese Waltz workshop and Dancing without Barriers session that welcomes all abilities. Guided by specialist instructors, feel the rhythm as you count one-two-three and glide across the floor in a sensory-aware studio.

This included Choice Highlight supports education around visual impairment and advances SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities. Learn the social history of the waltz while practicing turns designed for confidence, connection and pure Viennese grace.

Dine in elegance on traditional Hungarian dishes paired with specially selected Hungarian wine, and meet your Travel Director and fellow travelers. Rich paprika aromas, slow-cooked stews and market-fresh salads introduce the city’s culinary soul.

Between courses, hear stories of thermal baths, Art Nouveau cafés and riverside palaces that frame your stay. Local vintages—from Tokaj’s golden sweetness to robust Eger reds—offer a first taste of Hungary’s diverse terroir.

Sample Prague on a progressive Dine-Around dinner through Malá Strana, with each course served in a different venue. Later, wander to Charles Bridge, where gas lamps glow above statues and the Vltava slips quietly beneath the arches.

Between bites of hearty Bohemian fare, your Travel Director reveals neighborhood tales of nobles’ palaces, hidden courtyards and riverside mills. The evening’s finale pairs sweet dessert with spellbinding views of the lit Old Town skyline.

Enjoy a traditional Viennese dinner with drinks before taking your seat for a classical concert celebrating Strauss and Mozart. Strings, woodwinds and waltz rhythms fill an elegant hall where chandeliers glitter above the audience.

Between musical highlights, appreciate how Vienna’s salons and court theatres shaped Europe’s soundscape. This curated evening pairs regional flavors with the city’s defining art form for a finale worthy of the Habsburg capital.

Cruise the Danube after dark as a multi-course dinner is served and the river mirrors the lights of the Parliament and Chain Bridge. Glide between Buda and Pest while cameras capture the city’s illuminated skyline.

This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour. Gentle live music and soft commentary set the mood as bridges and UNESCO-listed embankments unfold in a continuous ribbon of gold.

Descend 380 steps into the Wieliczka Salt Mine to see cathedral-scale chambers, an underground lake and the glittering St Kinga’s Chapel with salt-crystal chandeliers. Guides reveal miners’ legends and the engineering behind this UNESCO-listed wonder.

This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour. Sculpted reliefs, timbered passages and cool, mineral-scented air create an otherworldly atmosphere in a working mine that operated for over seven centuries.

Settle into an intimate salon for a Chopin recital, where mazurkas, Nocturnes and Polonaises unfold on a concert grand. Candlelit ambiance and expert commentary illuminate the composer’s Warsaw roots and poetic lyricism.

This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour. Close-up acoustics and a focused program offer a contemplative counterpoint to the city’s grand boulevards and royal squares.

Drift beneath stone arches on a Vltava River cruise, gliding under Charles Bridge with storybook views of Prague Castle, baroque churches and red-roofed palaces reflected in the water.

This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour. Gentle narration and open-air decks make this a relaxed way to photograph Prague’s UNESCO-listed riverfront from a different perspective.

Travel beyond the city for a country mansion dinner in the Vienna Woods or surrounding wine country. Seasonal Austrian dishes and local vintages are served in stately rooms or a garden setting, depending on the venue.

This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour. Your Travel Director’s commentary ties the evening to Vienna’s rural estates and the culinary traditions that flourish just beyond the Ring.

Discover Kraków with a Local Specialist, climbing Wawel Hill to Wawel Cathedral, burial place of Polish monarchs, before crossing to Rynek Glówny to admire the arcades of the Sukiennice Cloth Hall. St. Mary’s Basilica reveals deep-blue vaults and a masterful carved altarpiece.

Hear the midday hejnal bugle call break off mid-note, recalling a 13th-century legend. In cathedral chapels added across dynasties, trace royal symbolism and Renaissance detail, then walk medieval lanes where scholars, artisans and traders once shaped the city’s Golden Age.

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum with a Memorial Guide Educator, witnessing preserved barracks and guard towers, the railway spur and barbed-wire perimeter. This is a solemn, reflective experience conducted with historic rigor and care.

Contextual exhibits and personal testimonies help frame the site within Europe’s wartime history. Quiet moments for remembrance are observed throughout, offering space to honor those who suffered and died here and to consider the universal responsibility such places ask of us.

Explore historic Buda with a Local Specialist and join a guided walking tour past cobbled lanes to the patterned tiles of Matthias Church. Step onto the neo-Romanesque terraces of Fisherman’s Bastion and follow the river’s curve to the distant dome of Parliament shimmering across the Danube.

Hear how this hilltop quarter evolved from medieval royal stronghold to Habsburg enclave. Zsolnay-glazed rooftops, pastel townhouses and stone bastions frame superb photo stops while your guide reveals stories of sieges, coronations and café culture tucked behind Buda’s quiet courtyards.

Experience the Liszt Academy of Music on a student-led visit through its Art Nouveau Grand Hall, where gilded balconies and sculpted owls preside over resonant acoustics. Take your seat for an intimate recital that brings Hungary’s musical lineage to life.

Founded by Franz Liszt in 1875, the Academy nurtured many of the country’s finest musicians. On some departures, this cultural moment may be replaced by a moving Matthias Church organ recital, letting the instrument’s sonorous tones fill the Gothic nave.

Insight Vacations

Explore Warsaw with a Local Specialist through the UNESCO-listed Old Town, past the Royal Castle’s brick walls to the socialist-realist spire of the Palace of Culture. In leafy Lazienki Park, pause by the Chopin Memorial before paying respects at the Ghetto Heroes Memorial.

Rebuilt with extraordinary fidelity after 1944, the Old Town’s pastel facades conceal centuries of royal ceremony and civic life. In the park’s calm, hear how Chopin’s music became a national voice; at the memorial, reflect on courage during the 1943 uprising.

Visit Ceský Krumlov Castle with a Local Specialist to navigate a medieval maze of chambers, courtyards, kitchens and storerooms. See the multi-tiered Cloak Bridge spanning the ravine and wander medieval lanes lined with painted facades.

Once seat of the Rosenbergs and Schwarzenbergs, the castle crowns a UNESCO-listed Old Town looped by the Vltava. Frescoed walls, trompe-l’oeil windows and Renaissance towers reveal power and taste layered over centuries in South Bohemia’s fairy-tale citadel.

Savor a traditional Czech dinner featuring South Bohemian specialties in the heart of Ceský Krumlov. Expect roast meats, dumplings, seasonal soups and local beers or Moravian wines served in a cozy historic setting.

As evening settles over the riverside town, quiet lanes and painted facades set a storybook mood. Your Travel Director’s recommendations highlight dishes rooted in countryside traditions, from caraway-scented roasts to fruit-filled sweet dumplings.