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Rome to London Quest | Hostels | Winter | 2027/2028 route map

Meet your Trip Manager and group in Rome, then travel to Verona to see Juliet’s balcony and the Roman Arena. Continue to Venice, with time to explore its islands, bridges and canals.

Take a private motoscafo through the canals to Venice’s historic centre. Spend the day exploring independently, or choose an optional food tour or gondola ride.

Meals: Breakfast

Travel from Venice to Salzburg and see Hohensalzburg Fortress. There is also a chance to visit a local farm for an Austrian dinner prepared by the hosts.

Meals: Breakfast

Travel from Salzburg to Germany, stopping at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site to learn and reflect. Continue to Munich, where you can explore its gardens, see the Glockenspiel or visit a beer hall.

Explore Munich at your own pace, with an optional guided bike tour of the city’s sights.

Travel north from Munich and stop in Leipzig for an afternoon to eat and explore. Continue to Berlin for an included dinner and a tour of the city’s top sights.

Meals: Breakfast,Dinner

Explore Berlin. Optional walking tours cover its history, including Checkpoint Charlie and the site of Hitler’s bunker, or its street art and counter-culture. The evening is free to experience the city’s nightlife.

Meals: Breakfast

Travel from Berlin through the Netherlands to Amsterdam. Enjoy an included dinner, with an optional visit to the A’DAM tower and its ‘Over the Edge’ swing. The evening is free to explore Amsterdam’s nightlife.

Meals: Breakfast,Dinner

Spend the day exploring Amsterdam’s museums and food options. This is the group’s last night together.

Meals: Breakfast

Travellers departing in Amsterdam are escorted to Schiphol Airport by about 10:00. Those continuing to London travel south to Calais, cross from France to England via Dover, and finish in London.

Meals: Breakfast

What’s included

7 breakfasts and 2 group dinners included, with dinners scheduled in Berlin and Amsterdam.
9 nights in hostels (multi-share, same-sex rooms) in Venice, Salzburg, Munich, Berlin and Amsterdam, or similar.
Private motoscafo transfer into Venice’s historic centre.
Dedicated Trip Manager support throughout the journey.
Overland transport for the full route from Rome to London, including a Channel crossing from Calais to Dover and an escort to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Day 10 (arriving around 10am).
Included experiences: Juliet’s House in Verona; cruise across the Venice lagoon; vantage of Hohensalzburg Fortress; visit to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial; Berlin orientation taking in Tiergarten, Alexanderplatz, Russian War Memorial, Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag and the East Side Gallery.

What’s not included

International flights to Rome and from London are not included.
Visas and entry requirements are not included; this may include an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) for the UK if applicable.
Travel insurance is not included and must be arranged by the traveller.
Meals not specified in the itinerary (e.g., lunches and most dinners) are at your own expense.
Optional activities and entrance fees not listed as included (e.g., Venice gondola ride, Munich bike tour, Berlin walking tours, A’DAM Tower swing in Amsterdam).
Personal expenses such as drinks, snacks, laundry, souvenirs and phone calls.
Airport transfers at the start in Rome and after the tour in London (except the included Day 10 escort to Amsterdam Schiphol) are not included.
Tips and gratuities for drivers, guides and hostel staff are not included unless otherwise stated.

Additional information

  • 7 Breakfast (B)
  • 2 Dinner (D)
  • London: You’ll need Essential Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA)From?January 8, 2025, UK law means that if you’re entering/transiting through border control in the United Kingdom (UK) and Northern Ireland you’ll need an?Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA)?before you travel. Confused? Don’t be – just read on here.
  • London: A modular trip means fellow travellers will join and leave at various locations. There’ll be some goodbyes, sure, but there’ll also be plenty of hellos with new like-minded travellers.
  • London: Your Trip Manager will advise you on who you’ll share your room with. On this trip, you’ll stay in a multi-share room with other travellers of the same sex.
  • Verona: This is the address behind the legendary love story. Visit Juliet’s House and see the spot that turned Verona into a global icon.
  • Venice: Speed across the lagoon to the aqueous island of Venice.
  • Salzburg: Marvel at one of Europe’s largest medieval castles, perched high on the hill over Salzburg. Like something out of the Sound of Music.
  • Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site: Take a somber but impactful visit to the site of a World War II concentration camp in Munich. 
  • Berlin: Get your culture on. It’s time to see Tiergarten, Alexanderplatz, the Russian War Memorial, Brandenburg Gate and the historic Reichstag building. 
  • Berlin: Heads up culture vultures. Here’s your chance to check out the longest open-air gallery in the world.

Cruise across the lagoon by private motoscafo to Venice’s historic heart, skimming past bobbing vaporetti, church domes and campanili before gliding into the broad sweep of St Mark’s Basin. The city’s skyline unfolds in a theatre of light, water and stone.

On arrival, get a short orientation to find landmarks such as the Grand Canal, the Rialto Bridge, and St Mark’s Square. Learn how centuries of maritime trade shaped this floating republic’s palazzi-lined waterways and maze of calli and bridges.

Explore Salzburg’s baroque Altstadt where onion-domed churches and pastel townhouses meet café terraces. Look up to the Hohensalzburg Fortress, the vast 11th-century stronghold crowning the Monchsberg, and pause for photos and reflection along the Salzach River.

Hear how prince-archbishops shaped this Alpine city of music and festivals. Recognise Sound of Music backdrops and Mozart’s legacy as you take in the fortress-studded skyline that has guarded Salzburg for nearly a millennium.

Visit the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site for a sober, educational experience. Walk through the former roll-call square, memorial chapels and exhibition spaces, and pause for photos and reflection at places dedicated to remembrance.

Learn about Dachau’s establishment in 1933 and its role as a prototype for the camp system. Exhibits, testimony and the museum and reconstructed barracks help illuminate timelines and personal stories, encouraging thoughtful contemplation of Europe’s 20th-century history.

Join a guided panoramic tour of Berlin to see sweeping green Tiergarten, lively Alexanderplatz, the solemn Soviet War Memorial, and signature landmarks including the Brandenburg Gate and the historic Reichstag.

Trace a city reborn, from Prussian grandeur through wartime scars and Cold War division to creative, modern energy. Your guide shares context that links squares, avenues and monuments into one compelling story of resilience and renewal.

Walk the East Side Gallery, the longest open-air gallery in the world, where a preserved stretch of the Berlin Wall bears vivid murals and political statements by international artists.

See icons like the “Fraternal Kiss” and pause for photos and reflection along the Spree. The gallery’s layered paint and concrete embody 1989’s turning point, transforming a barrier into a global canvas of freedom and memory.

Taste your way through Venice on a hosted stroll to traditional bacaro wine bars, where you’ll sample cicchetti—bite-sized Venetian tapas—paired with regional wines or a bittersweet spritz. Expect creamy baccalà mantecato, seasonal crostini and lagoon-inspired flavours.

Along the way, learn how neighborhood bars anchor local life and why these small plates thrive in a city of bridges and tides. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable with your Trip Manager on tour.

Glide on a classic gondola ride as your gondolier rows beneath low-slung bridges and along quiet back-canals where facades brush the waterline and whispered currents echo against stone.

Feel centuries of maritime ritual in the gentle sway and carved prow, passing waterside palazzi and hidden courtyards. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable with your Trip Manager on tour.

Venture into the Alpine foothills to meet a local family and sit down to a farmhouse dinner made with seasonal produce. Expect hearty regional dishes, warm Austrian hospitality, and stories of life shaped by mountain seasons.

Between rustic barns and meadow views, learn how recipes travel across generations and why the countryside remains Salzburg’s pantry. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable with your Trip Manager on tour.

Pedal Munich’s flat streets on a guided bike tour, tracing leafy paths through the English Garden, riverside routes beside the Isar, and photogenic stops at Marienplatz and Viktualienmarkt.

Hear tales of Wittelsbach royalty, WWII rebuilding and beer-garden traditions as you roll between baroque churches and modern boulevards—perfect for snapshots and fresh air. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable with your Trip Manager on tour.

Walk through pivotal sites of 20th-century history, including Checkpoint Charlie, the Topography of Terror documentation center, and the site of Hitler’s bunker. Themes of dictatorship, division and reconstruction frame each stop.

Encounter memorials and stories that humanize timelines, from Stolpersteine to the Berlin Wall’s legacy. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable with your Trip Manager on tour.

Discover the city’s creative undercurrent on a guided ramble through Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, exploring murals, stencils and paste-ups around the RAW-Gelände and riverfront warehouses. Learn how street art evolved from protest to public gallery.

Your guide decodes tags, crews and community projects that keep Berlin’s walls alive with color and commentary. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable with your Trip Manager on tour.

Ascend to A’DAM Lookout for panoramic views across the IJ, Centraal Station and the 17th-century canal belt. For a thrilling finale, strap into Over the Edge, Europe’s highest swing, and soar out above the tower’s edge.

It’s a sky-high perspective on Amsterdam’s maritime past and modern skyline, perfect for dusk photos as the city lights up. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable with your Trip Manager on tour.

Contiki

Visit Juliet’s House in Verona and stand beneath the famed balcony that inspired Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Wander the cobbled lanes nearby, where shopfronts and trattorie spill onto stone-paved courtyards, and pause for photos and reflection amid walls layered with notes of devotion.

Continue to the Roman Arena, the city’s first-century amphitheatre that still hosts grand operas each summer. Admire its elliptical tiers and weathered pink marble as you trace Verona’s evolution from Roman stronghold to Renaissance beauty.

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