Tour Description

You trace 10 days through Central Europe in cathedral hush, castle stone and lanes worn smooth by centuries of footsteps. You start in Regensburg among medieval towers, cool church stone and narrow lanes lined with old trading houses. In Prague, you wander past tall spires, painted façades and the warm scent of pastry drifting from bakery doors. Bratislava waits by the Danube with cafe chatter, hillside walls and riverfronts. In Budapest, you cross bridges between Buda and Pest, feeling the city’s many cultures in its market halls, bathhouses and grand cafes. Vienna and Salzburg place you among marble staircases, concert halls and Mirabell Gardens.

Priced From:

$ 3455pp ^*

From: 2027-04-02

To: 2027-09-24

Start Location: Munich, Germany

End Location: Munich, Germany

Trip Type: CostSaver Regional Experiences

Tour Advisors

Beccy Hayes

Travel Specialist

Tiffany McCrea-Lennon

Managing Director

Russell Mein

Travel Specialist

Caitlin Lennon

Travel Coordinator

Gaylyn Murdoch

Administration Manager

Holly Skene

Travel Co-ordinator

Kim Thomas

Broker

Itinerary

Munich’s Squares: Bavaria Begins Here

Day 1

Duration: 1

Accommodation: Holiday Inn Express - City East

You’ll arrive in Munich through bells over Marienplatz and laughter spilling from beer-hall doors. After settling into your hotel, you join your Travel Director for an orientation tour through streets of painted signs, gabled roofs and church towers rising above the old centre. In Marienplatz, you stand between the Old Town Hall and the New Town Hall as the Glockenspiel performs its famous tale of a royal wedding, jousting knights and the coopers’ dance. Later, the evening is yours to explore. Perhaps you’ll take a seat at an outdoor Biergarten, where long wooden tables and cold beer welcome you into Bavaria.

Follow the Danube Towards Prague

Day 2

Duration: 1

Accommodation: Ibis Praha Mala Strana

Beyond Munich, your first stop is Regensburg, where the Danube runs beside a UNESCO-listed medieval centre of stone arches, steep roofs and carved doorways. You look up at the Gothic cathedral as its towers rise over the town, then move through streets where cool stone, painted signs and the scent of bread from nearby bakeries pull you further into the Bavarian city. Crossing into the Czech Republic, you wander beneath sharp spires and around lamp-lit corners. Later, you can choose tonight’s Optional Experience to explore the illuminated city.

Bohemia’s Capital: Prague in Detail

Day 3

Duration: 1

Accommodation: Ibis Praha Mala Strana

Following your Local Specialist through Prague Castle’s courtyards, you pause inside the Cathedral of St. Vitus, where coloured glass scatters red, blue and gold across the chapel walls. In Old Town Square, you stand among carved clock faces and Gothic towers as the warm scent of cinnamon drifts from pastry stalls nearby. Your free afternoon leaves room to return for the Astronomical Clock’s hourly Walk of the Apostles, perhaps with a freshly baked trdelník in hand. Or choose an Optional Experience lunch cruise on the Vltava, passing riverside palaces, bridges and Prague Castle.

Cross Slovakia Onwards to Budapest

Day 4

Duration: 1

Accommodation: Ibis Castle Hill

Leaving Prague behind, you'll travel through Moravia’s southern landscapes towards Slovakia, watching villages, fields and church roofs pass beyond the glass. In Bratislava, you explore the Old Town, where the 15th-century Old Town Hall stands among pastel buildings, narrow passageways and cafe awnings. Then Budapest waits further along the road, split between Buda and Pest across the broad sweep of the river. Your evening is free, or you can choose an Optional Experience private dinner cruise, tasting Hungarian specialities as you drift past Parliament, stone bridges and shimmering riverside lamps.

Hungary’s Capital: Budapest in Full

Day 5

Duration: 1

Accommodation: Ibis Castle Hill

In Budapest, you explore a city of tiled rooftops, carved doorways, see steam rising from bathhouse vents and smell the paprika warmth of Hungarian kitchens in the air. With your Local Specialist, you trace the city’s many influences on a sightseeing tour through grand boulevards, historic squares and neighbourhoods shaped by centuries of movement between east and west. The rest of the day is yours to spend however you choose. You might join an Optional Experience to Szentendre, a medieval town on the Danube known for artists’ houses, church towers and lanes lined with galleries. Later, another Optional Experience invites you to dinner, where you sit down to Hungarian dishes among bright embroidery, traditional dance and live music.

Journey from Budapest to Vienna

Day 6

Duration: 1

Accommodation: Senator

Before leaving Budapest, you may step inside the Hungarian Parliament, where red carpeting climbs the Grand Stairway, frescoes cover the ceiling and the Hungarian Holy Crown rests beneath the Dome Hall. Back on the road, you cross the hilly Transdanubia region towards Győr, watching vineyards, farmhouses and chapel towers pass between Hungary and Austria. Vienna waits at the end of the day with polished stone, coffee house windows and opera house doors lit for the evening. As evening falls, you arrive in a capital of galleries, concert halls and candlelit dining rooms, where you can spend the night among grand avenues, old cafe tables and velvet-seated concert halls.

Vienna’s Elegance: Schönbrunn, Streets and Sonatas

Day 7

Duration: 1

Accommodation: Senator

At Schönbrunn Palace, a guided Optional Experience can take you through the former Habsburg summer residence, past gilded rooms and patterned parquet, as you glimpse crystal chandeliers scattering shards of dancing light across the rooms. Later, with your Local Specialist, you explore Vienna through carved balconies, baroque doorways and quiet courtyards tucked behind grand streets. This evening, another Optional Experience pairs dinner with the music of Mozart and Strauss, as violin and piano notes fill the room.

Vienna to Salzburg: Danube Valley and Mozart

Day 8

Duration: 1

Accommodation: B&B Salzburg Nord

Following the Danube Valley towards Salzburg, you watch the river slip between wooded hills, village roofs and pale church towers. In Salzburg, your Local Specialist leads you into a city of music and pale baroque stone, where you cross Mirabell Gardens among fountains, statues and low box hedges curling around bright beds of red and yellow flowers. Later, the afternoon is yours to spend deeper in the Old Town, passing wrought-iron signs on Getreidegasse, lifting your eyes to church domes and stepping inside the Cathedral where Mozart was baptised. You can also visit his nearby birthplace, where portraits, letters and early instruments trace Mozart’s childhood in Salzburg.

Return Through Bavaria to Munich

Day 9

Duration: 1

Accommodation: Holiday Inn Express - City East

Leaving Austria, you return to Bavaria, breathing in cool alpine air as the road rises towards high mountain country. On your Optional Experience through the Bavarian Alps to Berchtesgaden, you climb above 1,500 metres, passing dark pine slopes, carved chalet balconies and grey-white limestone peaks above the road. Or visit the Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s former retreat, where you learn its infamous history while standing high above the valleys of Bavaria. Later, you return to Munich for a final dinner with your fellow travellers, raising a glass to 10 days of cathedrals, castles, river cities and mountain roads.

Farewell Munich and New Friends

Day 10

Duration: 1

With the warmth of your Bavarian hosts still with you, spend your last hours in Munich sharing favourite memories from days of painted squares, alpine roads, candlelit music and old stone cities. Say farewell to new friends, take one last taste of Bavaria with you and head for home.

Dates & prices

Start Date: 2027-04-23

End Date: 2027-05-02

twin

Child Price: 3155

Adult Price: 3525

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Adult Price: 3525

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Adult Price: 3455

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Adult Price: 4195

Start Date: 2027-05-07

End Date: 2027-05-16

twin

Child Price: 3155

Adult Price: 3525

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3525

triple

Child Price: 3085

Adult Price: 3455

single

Child Price:

Adult Price: 4205

Start Date: 2027-05-14

End Date: 2027-05-23

twin

Child Price: 3155

Adult Price: 3525

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3525

triple

Child Price: 3085

Adult Price: 3455

single

Child Price:

Adult Price: 4205

Start Date: 2027-05-21

End Date: 2027-05-30

twin

Child Price: 3155

Adult Price: 3525

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3525

triple

Child Price: 3085

Adult Price: 3455

single

Child Price:

Adult Price: 4205

Start Date: 2027-05-28

End Date: 2027-06-06

twin

Child Price: 3155

Adult Price: 3525

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3525

triple

Child Price: 3085

Adult Price: 3455

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Adult Price: 4215

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End Date: 2027-06-13

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Child Price: 3255

Adult Price: 3625

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Adult Price: 3550

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Adult Price: 4325

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End Date: 2027-06-27

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Child Price: 3155

Adult Price: 3525

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3525

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Child Price: 3085

Adult Price: 3455

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End Date: 2027-07-04

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Child Price: 3155

Adult Price: 3525

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Adult Price: 3525

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Adult Price: 3455

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End Date: 2027-07-11

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Adult Price: 3695

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Adult Price: 3695

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Child Price: 3255

Adult Price: 3625

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Adult Price: 4535

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End Date: 2027-07-25

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Adult Price: 4295

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Adult Price: 4295

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Adult Price: 4225

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Adult Price: 4985

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End Date: 2027-08-08

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Child Price: 3580

Adult Price: 3950

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Adult Price: 3950

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Adult Price: 3880

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Adult Price: 4650

Start Date: 2027-08-06

End Date: 2027-08-15

twin

Child Price: 3580

Adult Price: 3950

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3950

triple

Child Price: 3510

Adult Price: 3880

single

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Adult Price: 4660

Start Date: 2027-08-13

End Date: 2027-08-22

twin

Child Price: 3580

Adult Price: 3950

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3950

triple

Child Price: 3510

Adult Price: 3880

single

Child Price:

Adult Price: 4650

Start Date: 2027-08-27

End Date: 2027-09-05

twin

Child Price: 3580

Adult Price: 3950

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3950

triple

Child Price: 3510

Adult Price: 3880

single

Child Price:

Adult Price: 4610

Start Date: 2027-09-03

End Date: 2027-09-12

twin

Child Price: 3805

Adult Price: 4175

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 4175

triple

Child Price: 3725

Adult Price: 4095

single

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Adult Price: 4850

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End Date: 2027-09-19

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Child Price: 3580

Adult Price: 3950

twinShare

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triple

Child Price: 3510

Adult Price: 3880

single

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End Date: 2027-09-26

twin

Child Price: 3580

Adult Price: 3950

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triple

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Adult Price: 3880

single

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End Date: 2027-10-03

twin

Child Price: 3580

Adult Price: 3950

twinShare

Child Price:

Adult Price: 3950

triple

Child Price: 3510

Adult Price: 3880

single

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