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Metropolises in the heart of Europe
8-day tour
Day 1: Arrival in Prague
On arrival at your Prague hotel via Plzeò, dinner will be served. The evening will be free, and you’ll stay overnight in Prague.
Day 2: Prague
In the morning you’ll go on a walking guided tour of the city. You’ll see many world-famous Prague places of interest, including Prague Castle at Hradèany and St Vitus’s Cathedral, and cross Charles Bridge to have a look at the Old Town Square and its astronomical apostles’ clock etc. Then you’ll have time to look around Wenceslas Square and perhaps do some shopping in Na Pøíkopì and Národní tøída streets. Dinner will follow in the evening and you’ll stay overnight in Prague.
Day 3: Prague – Vienna
After breakfast the tour will resume, taking you through Waldviertal and Weinviertel in Lower Austria on the way to Vienna. The afternoon will be free. You’ll stay overnight in Vienna.
Day 4: Vienna
After breakfast you’ll explore the home of the Viennese waltz in a half-day guided tour. The sights you’ll see will include Hofburg, the State Opera House, Charles’s Church, the Burg Theatre, the Town Hall and the University. In the afternoon you’ll have a chance to visit the famous Prater. In the evening you’ll stop off at a Heurigen pub in Grinzig. You’ll finish the day with dinner and a glass or two of wine.
Day 5: Vienna – Budapest
After breakfast the tour will take you across the Austro-Hungarian border at Nickelsdorf to Budapest. In the afternoon you’ll get acquainted with the Hungarian capital, which lies picturesquely on both banks of the Danube. You’ll no doubt admire the castle quarter and its Fisherman’s Bastion and Mátyás’s Church, which stands on the Danube, and the Parliament and National Museum in Pest. You’ll have dinner and stay overnight in the city.
Day 6: Budapest – the Danube bend – puszta – Budapest
After breakfast there’ll be an all-day trip starting in the old cultural district nestling in the bend of the Danube. You’ll then visit the Szentendre artists’ colony and the old towns of Esztergom and Visegrad. Not far from the capital you’ll find the Hungary you know from films and operetta: here you can enjoy the romance of a real puszta! The culinary peak of your visit will be dinner in a traditional csarda, where you’ll eat and drink traditional food and wines, to the accompaniment of melancholic gypsy music. You’ll then return to your hotel, where you’ll stay overnight.
Day 7: Budapest – Bratislava – Prague
After breakfast you’ll begin your journey back to Bratislava. The old border town with its bridges is Slovakia’s largest city. Approaching it in the direction of Brno means you’ll be able to see the Little Carpathians on your right and Weinviertel on your left. The coach will by-pass Brno and take the motorway to Prague, where you’ll have dinner and stay overnight.
Day 8: Prague – departure
After breakfast you’ll start your journey home.
Accommodation: medium-range hotels in Prague, Vienna and Budapest
The tour includes:
• 7 nights in hotels, all rooms with shower/WC
• 7 buffet breakfasts
• 4 dinners in hotels
• 1 dinner with 0.25 litres of wine in a typical Viennese restaurant
• 1 dinner with gypsy music in a traditional csarda
• a half-day guided tour of Prague on the 2nd day
• a half-day guided tour of Vienna on the 4th day
• a half-day guided tour of Budapest on the 5th day
• an all-day guide for the trip to the Danube bend
• free accommodation for every 21st person in a double room
1a: Arrangement price per person in double room
1b: Single room surcharge
1c: Seasonal surcharge I (1.4.-30.6., 1.8.-31.10.)
1d: Seasonal surcharge II (1.7.-31.7.)
Public holiday surcharge details supplied on request!
Extension of tour possible!
Programme changes possible!
Min. no. of participants: 16 paying persons!
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