• 6 Dinner (D)
• 18 Breakfast (B)
• 2 Lunch (L)

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

• Amsterdam: Join your Travel Director and fellow guests at a local restaurant in the heart of Amsterdam for a delightful dinner, served with wine.
• Budapest: Enjoy a scenic dinner cruise and take in the city’s night time beauty as you float along the Danube.
• Venice: Savour a Venetian dinner with wine in a restaurant in the heart of this historic city.
• Tuscany: Gather at a family-owned estate in the Chianti hills for an intimate tasting of their estate wines, paired with silky extra-virgin olive oil pressed from the surrounding groves. As you sip and swirl, your hosts share the story of this land shaped by sun, stone and centuries of Tuscan know-how, turning a simple glass and drizzle into something far more personal. It is a true taste of Tuscany, enjoyed up close and personal with the people who call it home.
• Umbria: Explore the art of Italian cooking with Chef Lorenzo followed by a tasty lunch.
• Lucerne: Choose from a selection of restaurants on your Dine-Around evening and hand-pick your preferred ambience, cuisine and drinks for an intimate culinary experience.
• Paris: With your newfound friends indulge in refined French cuisine during your dinner at the iconic restaurant L’Alsace.

• Prague: Stroll through the Jewish Quarter with your Local Specialist to hear how the Jewish community has shaped the history of Prague, and visit the Old-New Synagogue and the Jewish cemetery.
• Prague: Explore Prague with your Local Specialist, walk the courtyards of the Castle, and visit the imposing St. Vitus Cathedral. The city is then yours to explore. Maybe take a river cruise through the heart of the city, or walk in the footsteps of kings along the Royal Route?

• 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: Be pampered with traditional coffee and cake. An experience like no other, this cosy cafe provides companionship, and promotes well-being and support for the community, in addition to crafting delicious treats.
• Tuscany: Be welcomed like an honoured guest at historic Fattoria di Bagnolo as a member of the noble Bartolini Baldelli family opens the doors to their Tuscan home. Discover a legacy stretching back nearly a thousand years, from Machiavelli’s era to today, as you explore the villa, vineyards and atmospheric cellars, up close and personal with those who call it home.
• Vatican City: Visit the Vatican Museums and witness the genius of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel.

Walk the medieval walls of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, circling stout towers and timbered gates that shelter Germany’s best-preserved old town.

Pause at the photogenic Plonlein, admire crooked eaves and cobbles, and sense the prosperity of the Romantic Road etched into every gable and square in this storybook hilltop city.

Explore Hradcany’s heights as you walk the castle courtyards and step inside St. Vitus Cathedral to admire its soaring nave and jewel-bright stained glass.

Your Local Specialist reveals tales of Bohemian kings, defiant saints and imperial pageantry as red-roofed city views unfurl below. This is one of two included Choice options; select on tour.

Walk the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) with a Local Specialist, entering the atmospheric Old-New Synagogue, among Europe’s oldest active synagogues.

Contemplate layers of memory in the Old Jewish Cemetery, where tilted stones rise in crowded tiers and legends echo through narrow lanes. This is one of two included Choice options; select on tour.

Settle in for a dinner cruise on the Danube as Budapest glows to life, reflections rippling across the water between Buda and Pest.

Drift past the illuminated Hungarian Parliament Building and under the Chain Bridge while live music frames a leisurely tasting of Hungarian flavors and riverside vistas.

Join a guided panoramic drive along Andrássy Avenue to Heroes’ Square before exploring the Buda Castle District on foot.

Ascend to the arcaded terraces of Fisherman’s Bastion for sweeping views across the Danube, reading the city’s skyline from royal palace to elegant bridges and parliament’s neo-Gothic crown.

Tour the Liszt Academy with a student guide to discover Art Nouveau flourishes and stories of virtuoso training in Hungary’s premier music school.

Take your seat in the Art Nouveau concert hall for a student-led recital that brings the country’s rich musical heritage into clear, ringing focus.

Join a guided panoramic tour along the Ringstrasse to see the Hofburg and State Opera, then stroll cobbled lanes in the historic Innere Stadt.

Pause in a traditional café for coffee and cake, where marble-topped tables and mirrored walls preserve Vienna’s conversation-rich coffeehouse tradition.

Travel by private boat along the Giudecca Canal as your Travel Director orients you to Venice’s waterborne rhythms and skyline.

Slip by the Doge’s Palace toward the grand stage of St. Mark’s Square, where domes, arcades and the bell tower greet the lagoon’s silver light.

Witness glassblowing as masters draw molten glass from the furnace and shape it with breath, movement and steel tools.

Hear how Murano techniques—from canework to millefiori—have been guarded for centuries, and meet artisans keeping this luminous craft alive.

Step into Tuscan country life to sample estate wines and peppery extra-virgin olive oil inside cool, atmospheric cellars.

Walk amid vines and stone farm buildings as your hosts share generations of tradition woven into Chianti’s seasons and soils.

Benefit from fast-track entry to the Vatican Museums, tracing galleries past the Raphael Rooms to the Sistine Chapel and its epoch-defining ceiling.

Continue into St. Peter’s Basilica to reflect before Michelangelo’s Pietà and the vast, light-filled nave anchoring Catholicism’s spiritual heart. On some departures, museum access may be replaced by the Capitoline Museums.

Stroll around the Colosseum exterior, reading tiers of arches and weathered stone as stories of games and gladiators come alive.

Survey the Arch of Constantine and vistas toward the Roman Forum to map the city’s ancient civic stage in your mind’s eye.

Join a hands-on cooking demonstration at a family farmhouse as fresh pasta from scratch takes shape on a flour-dusted table.

Sit down to a hearty lunch with local wine while your hosts share Umbrian flavors and the gentle rhythm of rural life.

View the Duomo, Giotto’s bell tower and the Baptistery’s gilded Gates of Paradise before continuing to Piazza della Signoria, an open-air gallery of Renaissance power.

Step inside a workshop to see artisans at work in leather and gold, a living craft that threads through the Santa Croce neighborhood.

Discover Lucerne’s icons, from the mournful Lion Monument hewn into a limestone cliff to the baroque Jesuit Church by the River Reuss.

Cross the medieval Chapel Bridge, reading painted panels under its eaves as alpine peaks and lake light frame the old town.

Ride the open-top cable car to Mount Stanserhorn’s summit, breathing an alpine panorama as cowbells echo across meadows and distant ranges ring the horizon.

Follow easy trails and, when available, hear a conservation talk from a Swiss ranger about native flora and marmots. Your visit supports SDG 15: Life on Land.

Join a guided panoramic tour of Paris to admire the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe linked by the grand sweep of the Champs-Élysées.

At Place de la Concorde and along the Seine near Notre-Dame, hear how Revolutions, empires and the Belle Époque shaped the elegant city you see today.

Step inside imperial life on a private tour of Schonbrunn Palace, from the gilded Great Gallery to frescoed staterooms.

Stroll the formal gardens to grasp Habsburg grandeur and courtly rituals set against manicured parterres and classical fountains.

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Cruise the Venetian lagoon to the colorful island of Burano, where fishermen’s houses line quiet canals and lace traditions endure.

Savor a seafood dinner paired with local wines as evening light softens the pastel facades.

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Travel to Pisa’s Piazza dei Miracoli to see the Leaning Tower tilting beside the Cathedral and the Romanesque Baptistery.

Hear how shifting soil shaped this marble ensemble and enjoy time for photographs amid lawns and arcades.

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Venture into rolling farmland for a horse-drawn carriage ride past meadows and traditional chalets.

Meet local farmers to hear about alpine traditions and sample regional treats in a setting of pastures and peaks.

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Slip into a world-famous Parisian cabaret where high-energy choreography meets glittering costumes and champagne sparkle.

A live orchestra and vintage glamour revive Belle Époque spirit for a lavish night in a legendary theatre.

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Cruise the Vltava beneath the arches of Charles Bridge, watching Prague Castle silhouette the skyline as spires and domes glide by.

Gentle commentary reveals riverside palaces and mills, opening fresh angles on the “City of a Hundred Spires.”

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Insight Vacations

Discover the Dutch capital from the water as you join a canal cruise through the UNESCO-listed ring, gliding past gabled mansions of the Golden Age and arched bridges. Your Travel Director orientation sets the scene while lanterns shimmer across the surface.

Hear how maritime trade shaped these elegant facades before settling into a neighborhood restaurant for a convivial welcome dinner with wine. It’s an atmospheric introduction to the rhythms and flavors of Amsterdam.

Cruise the River Rhine through its most storied gorge, drifting past vineyard terraces and slate cliffs between Boppard and St. Goar. Boats, bells and castle silhouettes lend a romantic cadence to the waterway.

Glide beneath the legendary Lorelei Rock and past turreted castles—Burg Rheinfels, Burg Katz and Burg Maus—while you raise a glass of local wine to scenery that has inspired poets for centuries.

Explore Wurzburg’s baroque heart on a relaxed walk to the statue-lined Alte Mainbrucke, where river breezes carry views up to the Marienberg Fortress cresting the vineyards.

Trace the city’s rebirth after wartime destruction and learn how Franconian wine culture shaped guild houses, chapels and market squares as you wander this elegant university town.