• 5 Dinner (D)
• 12 Breakfast (B)

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

• Rome: Savour dinner at a uniquely Roman restaurant, offering a perfect exploration of Lazio’s typical flavours.
• Venice: In St. Marks Square at sunset, long after the day-trippers have gone to their mainland hotels, sip cocktails before dinner at a local restaurant.
• 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.
• Amsterdam: Board a canal cruise through Amsterdam’s UNESCO-listed waterways and enjoy dinner inspired by the city’s Dutch-Indonesian culinary heritage. This enduring fusion dates back to the 17th century, when the Dutch East India Company established trade routes with Southeast Asia, introducing spices and cooking traditions that continue to shape the Netherlands’ food culture today.

• Vatican City: Visit the Vatican Museums and witness the genius of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel.

• Vienna: Visit a traditional coffeehouse to enjoy Viennese specialities of coffee and Sachertorte.
• Vienna: Visit the Capuchin Crypt, the historic burial place of the Habsburg dynasty.

Sip cocktails at sunset as musicians weave arias across St Mark’s Square. The day’s crowds fade, leaving the colonnades hushed and the facades glowing, an ambience heightened by an ensemble serenade and the soft clink of glasses.

Revel in the Venetian evening atmosphere before dining nearby, when café orchestras score the square and lanterns catch the lagoon breeze. A timeless Venetian ritual of elegance and light.

Join a walking tour beside the Ljubljanica’s willow-draped banks to Prešeren Square and Plecnik’s ingenious Triple Bridge. Trace pastel facades to the market arcades and step into the baroque St. Nicholas Cathedral with its gilded interior and marble sheen.

Hear how architect Jože Plecnik shaped the city’s human-scale beauty and why cafés spill into elegant squares. Ljubljana reveals a cultured ease—Central European charm framed by bridges and river light.

Stroll with your Travel Director through Maribor’s Old Town, where riverside lanes meet medieval squares along the Drava River. Note the blend of Habsburg-era facades and contemporary murals that animate this university city.

Learn how wine culture, trade routes, and scholarship shaped Slovenia’s second city. The compact center rewards an unhurried pace—quiet courtyards, wrought-iron balconies, and stone underfoot polished by centuries of market days.

Admire imperial Vienna on a panoramic circuit of the Ringstrasse, passing the State Opera, Parliament, and the Hofburg. Continue on foot into the cobbled lanes of the Innere Stadt, where cafés and concert halls echo with waltz rhythms.

Pause at St. Stephen’s Cathedral to consider Gothic spires rising above Biedermeier facades. The Habsburg legacy lives in grand boulevards, horse-drawn carriages, and salons where music still lingers in the air.

Settle into a traditional coffeehouse to savor a foamed Viennese melange and a slice of glossy Sachertorte. Marble-topped tables, newspapers on wooden holders, and silver trays reflect a ritual perfected over centuries.

Learn how Vienna’s UNESCO-listed coffeehouse culture shaped debate, arts, and daily life—from Freud’s reflections to Klimt’s golden age. A delicious immersion in the city’s intellectual and culinary soul.

Descend beneath the Kapuzinerkirche to the Capuchin Crypt, resting place of the Habsburg dynasty. Ornate baroque sarcophagi commemorate emperors and empresses, from Maria Theresa to Franz Joseph and Sisi.

Consider power, mortality, and ceremony in this somber chamber where history is etched in bronze and stone. The crypt offers a quiet counterpoint to Vienna’s glittering palaces, revealing the empire’s human story.

Explore baroque Salzburg with a Local Specialist in the Mirabell Gardens, where terraces and fountains frame views to the Hohensalzburg Fortress. Cross Residence Square and admire the vast Salzburg Cathedral rising over market-laced lanes.

Wander the Getreidegasse past wrought-iron shop signs to Mozart’s Birthplace. Music, monastic heritage, and cinematic scenery merge in streets that still ring with arias and alpine air.

Walk Innsbruck’s pastel arcades to the Golden Roof, its gilded shingles gleaming beneath the alpine backdrop. Hear stories of imperial tournaments and pageantry near the Tyrolean Imperial Palace.

Gothic bay windows, baroque facades, and the distant Nordkette peaks create a striking urban-meets-mountain tableau. It’s a compact city that balances courtly grandeur with rugged Tyrolean charm.

Pause for photos and reflection beneath Vaduz Castle, the princely residence perched above Liechtenstein’s capital. Framed by the snow-capped Alps, its turrets and ramparts hint at medieval frontiers and mountain lore.

Learn how this tiny principality balanced sovereignty and tradition in the Rhine Valley. The stop offers sweeping views and a sense of storybook scale—royal walls set against vast peaks.

Discover Lucerne’s icons in one elegant sweep: the solemn Lion Monument hewn from sandstone, the covered Chapel Bridge with painted roof trusses, and the baroque Jesuit Church reflecting in the Reuss.

Absorb stories of Swiss valor, mercantile wealth, and guild traditions that shaped this lakeside town. Timber, water, and stone compose a harmonious cityscape framed by mountains and the shimmer of Lake Lucerne.

Ascend by open-top Cabrio cable car on a pioneering solar-powered ascent to the Stanserhorn summit. Breathe crisp air as a Swiss ranger talk introduces local flora and fauna, then follow gentle paths across flowered meadows.

Savor a sweeping Alpine panorama over Lake Lucerne to the Black Forest on clear days. Keep watch for marmots and raptors circling thermals above the ridgelines.

Cruise the Rhine River from Boppard toward St. Goar, gliding past terraced vineyards, timbered villages, and hilltop castles. Raise a glass as you sample regional wines while currents curl beneath the fabled Lorelei Rock.

Hear legends of river sirens and toll-collecting barons that shaped this storied waterway. The landscape is a living tapestry of trade, myth, and viticulture stitched between steep slate slopes.

Settle in for a canal dinner cruise through the UNESCO-listed canal ring, watching lamps ignite along Golden Age gables. Glide beneath graceful bridges as course after course reflects the city’s Dutch-Indonesian culinary heritage.

The water reveals Amsterdam at its most atmospheric—arched bridges mirrored on inky canals, bell gables rising like silhouettes. A floating salon of cuisine, history, and night-lit architecture.

Begin your journey with a convivial welcome dinner at a local Roman restaurant, celebrating typical Lazio flavours. Expect seasonal antipasti, handmade pasta like cacio e pepe, and perhaps citrus-scented roasted meats.

Discuss tomorrow’s adventures over regional wines as servers move between tiled floors and framed vintage posters. This is Rome’s warmth made edible—hospitality, heritage, and cuisine at the table.

Enjoy a curated Dine-Around evening where you choose your restaurant in Lucerne—from wood-paneled taverns to sleek lakeside spots. Taste Swiss specialities such as rosti, lake fish, and Alpine cheeses paired with crisp local whites.

With the Reuss glinting and mountains etched against twilight, dinner becomes a portrait of place. Choose ambiance and cuisine to match your mood, and linger as bells chime the hour.

Visit Pompeii, the Roman city sealed by Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. Walk basalt streets to the forum, baths, and frescoed villas where time paused mid-gesture. Plaster casts, mosaics, and graffiti whisper of daily life before ash fell.

This excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour. It offers a powerful encounter with antiquity—urban planning, artistry, and tragedy preserved in stone and pumice.

Glide across emerald waters aboard a traditional pletna boat toward the tiny isle of Lake Bled. Climb to the hilltop church and, if you wish, ring the wishing bell as Alpine peaks ring the horizon.

This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour. It blends gentle adventure with storybook scenery—glacial lake light, spruce-scented air, and ripples feathering the shore.

Step inside Schonbrunn Palace, the Habsburg summer residence, to view state rooms where mirrors multiply chandeliers and Mozart played in the Hall of Mirrors. Stroll the parterres and fountains of the formal gardens toward the Gloriette.

This private visit is at additional cost and bookable on tour. It reveals Habsburg splendour across salons and terraces that frame imperial Vienna at its most theatrical.

Ascend to the Eagle’s Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) for sweeping views of the Bavarian Alps. Learn about its construction and role in Third Reich history before stepping onto terraces where valleys and ridgelines unfold in every direction.

This excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour. It pairs poignant context with panoramic views, adding a high-altitude chapter to your time in the Salzburg region.

Insight Vacations

Explore the treasures of the world’s smallest state on a guided visit through the Vatican Museums, culminating beneath the Sistine Chapel where Michelangelo’s frescoes ignite the ceiling with color and drama. Walk into St Peter’s Basilica to admire Michelangelo’s Pietà and the grandeur of Bernini’s bronze baldachin.

Gain insight into papal patronage, Renaissance artistry, and centuries of faith as you stand beneath the basilica’s soaring dome. Art, devotion, and politics converge in these galleries and chapels, offering a deep sense of continuity from antiquity to the present.

Glide across the lagoon on an orientation cruise, tracing the broad Giudecca Canal past weathered brick warehouses and gleaming palazzi. Your Travel Director points out the Doge’s Palace and the open expanse of St Mark’s Square, revealing Venice’s power shaped by trade, art, and the sea.

Feel the city’s rhythm from the water as gondolas slip through side canals and church bells carry over the lagoon. This nautical vantage sets the tone for Venice—an elegant choreography of tide, stone, and sky.

Witness a traditional glassblowing workshop where master artisans coax molten glass into goblets and sculptures using time-honored Murano techniques. Watch forms emerge in the furnace glow as tools click and shape glowing threads into delicate patterns.

Hear how guilds safeguarded secrets for centuries and why Venice became synonymous with fine glass. This living craft blends chemistry, dexterity, and design—an intimate window into La Serenissima’s inventive spirit.

Arrive in style by private boat transfer to the city’s ceremonial heart, St Mark’s Square. Take in the shimmering mosaics of the Byzantine Basilica, the elegant arcades, and the slender Campanile that has long guided mariners home.

Absorb tales of doges, processions, and masked festivities as marble lions watch over the lagoon. This is Venice’s stage—where power met spectacle beneath colonnades warmed by Adriatic light.