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Highlights
Vienna: Visit Vienna’s grand Baroque palace with your Local Specialist and trace the legacy of the Habsburg dynasty. See the Hall of Mirrors where Mozart performed as a child, the richly decorated Great Gallery used for court functions, and the private apartments of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth. Learn how court rituals, politics and personal tastes shaped one of Europe’s most influential empires.
Vienna: Travel along the Ring Road to see the Hofburg Imperial Residence, Opera House, Parliament Building and Karlskirche.
Cesky Krumlov: Your Travel Director will lead you on an orientation of the city as you explore the medieval streets of this fairy-tale town.
Auschwitz: Visit the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum with a Memorial Guide Educator, viewing preserved barracks, guard towers and the barbed-wire perimeter of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
Kraków: Visit Wawel Cathedral with your Local Specialist, stepping inside the burial place of Poland’s monarchs and statesmen. You’ll see chapels added across successive dynasties and the cathedral where Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, served as Archbishop of Kraków.
Kraków: Join your Local Specialist to trace Kraków’s development around Rynek Główny and the streets that formed the city’s medieval core. You’ll see the layers of architecture shaped by royal patronage, mercantile guilds and university life, noting how each period left its mark on the Old Town’s pattern.
Kraków: Visit the 14th-century St. Mary's Basilica, the most important church in the city.
Budapest: Explore the Old Town of Buda with a Local Specialist.
Kraków: Join your Local Specialist to trace Kraków’s development around Rynek Główny and the streets that formed the city’s medieval core. You’ll see the layers of architecture shaped by royal patronage, mercantile guilds and university life, noting how each period left its mark on the Old Town’s pattern.
Kraków: Visit the 14th-century St. Mary's Basilica, the most important church in the city.
Budapest: Explore the Old Town of Buda with a Local Specialist.
All hotel tips, charges and local taxesWe carry your bags for you and promptly deliver them to your hotel doorComplimentary coach and hotel WiFi where available
Meals
4 Dinner (D)8 Breakfast (B)
Transport
Airconditioned, 40seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom
Guide
An expert Travel Director and professional DriverFrom time to time, your Travel Director will delight you with a local specialty representing the destination.
Others
Audio headsets for flexible sightseeing
9 daysDuration
Group TourJoin a group of travelers
48 peopleMaximum group size
5 - 99 yearsAge range for participants
EnglishGuide language
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Itinerary
Across nine days, you wander from marble halls and coffee-scented streets to market squares, river bends, castle courtyards and candlelit tables. In Prague, choose between the cool ancient stone of its thousand-year-old castle precincts and the Jewish Quarter’s synagogues and narrow lanes with a Local Specialist. Across Slovakia and the Tatra Mountains, verdant forests and high mountain peaks pass the window before Budapest waits beside the Danube sparkling in the sun. In Buda’s Old Town, you gaze across to Pest from Fisherman’s Bastion, then end at dinner with Hungarian wines and warm, rich dishes under a candlelit glow.
day 1Welcome to Vienna
Your journey begins in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Spend your afternoon at leisure before meeting your Travel Director and fellow travellers for a pleasant dinner at a local restaurant.
Meals
Dinner
Location Visited
Vienna
Accommodation
Hilton Vienna Park
day 2Stately Vienna and the Habsburgs
day 3Charming esk Krumlov and Golden Prague
day 4Prague, City of a Hundred Spires
day 5Reflect on Auschwitz then on to Krakw
day 6The Damsels and Dragons of Krakw
day 7Through Slovakia to Budapest
day 8Budapest, the Queen of the Danube
day 9Depart Vienna
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