Majestic Cities of Central & Eastern Europe featuring Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest & Krakow

Great experience and a rich, educational experience. Guide Marius was kind and helpful.

Our tour manager, Monica, was exceptional. She was always available to help with any issues or questions. Very knowledgeable about the region. Meals were always excellent, including breakfasts. Local ethnic food was always served at the meals. Our favorites were the ethnic folk dinners in Vienna and Krakow. Don’t miss the World Market in Budapest! So much fun. If you can’t find it there, it doesn’t exist in Hungary!

An amazing tour with great experiential visits to the cities. Can’t pick out one favorite but here’s a few: cooking class in Prague, kleezmeer restaurant and dance, visit to and guided tour of Benedictine monastery and so many more.

Varied opportunities from waltz class to spa experience to symphony and historical sights, the Hapsburg dynasty, the Ottoman influence, and remnants from WWII and the Holocaust. Particularly, I was most impressed with our tour manager Pavel. Not only ws he fluent in the needed languages but he was also of lover of history and quite knowledgeable. Collette should work to keep him as he prefers to work free lance.

We very much enjoyed the small group tour. Tomas, our tour guide was amazing. Very knowledgeable of every stop within the itinerary. We will definitely book with Collette again. It is impossible to to elaborate on our "favorite memorable experience" as each day was filled with such experiences. Always on my "bucket list" was to visit Auschwitz and Birkenau. How anyone can say that the Holocaust didn't happen, must visit the museum.

The churches are incredible!

Our very informed guides described and showed us the architectural and political contributions of the Hapsburgs and life in Eastern Europe during and after WW2. The damage to glorious architecture of the prewar period has been miraculously restored in the cities and towns we visited. Our guides movingly described the painful years during WW2, and life under communism. Our visits to a former Gestapo headquarters in Budapest and to Auschwicz and Burkinau were sobering. Our evening boat ride on the Danube to see the lavishly lit Budapest from the water was exhilarating. It was a most educational, thought-provoking trip.

All the cities were great. The locations of the hotels were perfect. Monika did an outstanding job.

Sebastian was the best tour manager I have ever had on a tour. He was knowledgeable, kind, easy going, readily available, and he made sure every one was taken care of. The cities we visited were wonderful but I feel we could have had more cultural and in-depth experiences. The tours tended to focus on the superficial, touristy sights. Some of the local tour guides were great but others were hard to understand. Museums were pointed out but they were never part of the tour. We did have some free time to visit museums on our own. I visited a museum rather than taking a waltz lesson or candy making. The local cultural dinner in Prague was awful. The food was ok but the music was too loud and very corny. The best local cultural dinner was our last night in Krakow at a Jewish restaurant. The group playing Klezmer music was fantastic.

This was a wonderful experience. All the events were very enjoyable and well timed. With only 24 people in our group it made it easy and enjoyable to get the most out of this experience.