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The Best of Vienna, Budapest and Prague 11 DAYS / 10 NIGHTS — GROUP TRAVEL Chasing Magyar Kings, Bohemian Dukes and Holy Roman Emperors: The Best of Vienna, Budapest and Prague 11 DAYS / 10 NIGHTS — GROUP TRAVEL SUGGESTED ITINERARY — CAN BE CUSTOMIZED INCLUSIONS While Vienna, Prague and Budapest have undoubtedly been influenced by their former Austrian Habsburg rulers, this Central European itinerary will show you that each is Accommodations: absolutely distinct and unique! Vienna oozes classical elegance and houses some of the Vienna 4 nights, Budapest 3 nights, best museums and classical music venues in Europe. Budapest, a true melting pot of Prague 3 nights Western and Eastern cultures, is undeniably charming and home to geothermal baths, Meals: Continental beautiful architecture and amazing views of the Danube. Prague, with its timeless Old breakfast daily. Lunch Town and ancient Castle District, possesses an ambience unlike anywhere else in the world. and dinner as noted in Spend a week and a half getting to know three of Europe’s most beautiful capital cities. itinerary Air-conditioned, private coaching DAY 1 ~ ARRIVAL TO DAY 2 ~ DAY TOUR English-speaking VIENNA OF OLD TOWN assistants and guides Admission tickets and Welcome to Austria! Upon After breakfast in the hotel, sightseeing excursions arrival an assistant will a local guide will meet your as outlined in the meet your group in the terminal’s arrivals group and take it on a full-day guided itinerary hall and accompany it by private coach to sightseeing tour of Vienna’s Innere Stadt HIGHLIGHTS the hotel in Vienna. As this is the arrival (1st District), which contains its Old Town. Tour Schönbrunn, the day, we have not scheduled any activities This entire area has been classified as an Habsburg’s Winter until dinnertime. Please note that if your official UNESCO World Heritage Site. Being Palace and a UNESCO group arrives before the hotel’s official a political and cultural capital for the House World Heritage Site check-in time (generally 3:00 pm) you are of Habsburg, Vienna served as a capital of Dinner in a traditional more than welcome to store baggage with the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian wine tavern in the the reception staff so that you can set out Empire, and later the Austro-Hungarian Vienna Woods Wachau Valley day trip and begin to explore Austria’s elegant, Empire. The dynasty’s patronage long featuring Melk Abbey riverside capital. encouraged art, music and science, and as a and a Danube River result, the city of Vienna today is truly a The ancient city of Vienna was once home Cruise treasure-trove of cultural attractions. to some of Europe’s most powerful rulers, Free days at leisure in Today’s tour will take place inside of and their patronage is still evident today in Budapest and Prague Vienna’s famed Ring. Your guide will show Walking tours in Győr, this cultural mecca’s grand boulevards, your group Stephansplatz, which is home to Hungary; Komárno, superb museums, splendid palaces, and Vienna’s iconic St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Slovakia; and unrivaled classical musical scene. This Szentendre, Hungary You’ll stroll down Kärntnerstrasse, Vienna’s afternoon consider paying a visit to one of Inside visits to Hofburg most-famous shopping avenue and see the Vienna’s impressive museums, or as Palace, Prague Castle, nearby Vienna State Opera House. Austria’s capital is world-famous for its Buda Castle and coffee houses, why not pop into one for a Most of your time today will be spent Křivoklát Castle! café and a Viennese pastry (or two)? touring the imperial Hofburg Palace, which was the winter residence of the Habsburg This evening your group will dine in the kings and emperors. Today it is the official hotel’s restaurant. residence of the President of Austria. This Maria Theresa, and the private apartments enormous palace complex plays host to of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Sisi, many residences, offices and museums your group will return to the hotel in including the Spanish Riding School, the Vienna. There is nothing scheduled this National Library, the Burgtheater, the evening. However, as Vienna has such a Natural History Museum, the Museum of wonderful classical music scene, your group Fine Arts, and the Imperial Chapel, where might consider attending a performance at the famed Vienna Boys Choir performs on the symphony or opera. Sunday mornings from September to June. DAY 4 ~ WACHAU Your group will specifically go inside the VALLEY EXCURSION Imperial State Apartments (Kaiserappartements) to see what home After breakfast in the hotel, was like for the Habsburg emperors and today your group will set their families. You will then continue to the out on an exciting sightseeing excursion to Imperial Treasury (Schatzkammer), which is the Wachau Valley. This extremely arguably the world’s greatest treasury. picturesque area, which is found along the Danube River, is another UNESCO World The tour will finish up back at the hotel, Heritage Site. Today’s excursion will take and the remainder of the day is at leisure. you west through the Vienna Woods to a For information on Vienna’s nightlife and fairytale land of vineyards, castles, sleepy excellent restaurant scene, please feel free villages and historic abbeys. to ask your guide. As part of today’s tour, your group will DAY 3 ~ SIGHTSEEING leisurely cruise the Danube from the pretty IN VIENNA wine town of Spitz to the ancient town of After breakfast in the hotel, Melk, which is home to the famed your group will dive straight Benedictine Melk Abbey. This baroque back into the world of Habsburg splendor. masterpiece, which dates back to the 11th Today’s first visit will be to the century, is a true symbol of Austria and one Kunsthistorisches Museum, which is of the most-important monastic sites in the Vienna’s Museum of Fine Arts. Many of the world. Your guide will lead your group on museum’s collections were amassed by the an interesting tour of the abbey before Habsburg rulers from their extensive returning to Vienna in the late-afternoon. territories. Quite simply, this is one of the (Please note that the Danube river cruises finest art museums in the world! generally only operate from April to October. In the event that your group is Afterwards your group will board its private vacationing in Austria outside of this time coach and travel southwest to Schönbrunn, period, this area is still well worth a visit! the Habsburg’s magnificent baroque Instead of the river cruise, we could summer palace. This UNESCO World arrange for your group to have a special Heritage Site, which has well over 1,000 lunch of regional specialties in Melk). rooms, is the location where a six-year-old Mozart wowed the Empress Maria Theresa After returning to the hotel in Vienna, (mother of Marie Antoinette) with his enjoy some time to relax and freshen up extraordinary musical talent in the late before tonight’s group dinner in Grinzing, 1700s. an area located on the outskirts of the Vienna Woods. Grinzing is best After touring the palace’s state rooms, 18th- characterized by its “heurigen” or century rooms associated with the Empress traditional wine taverns. Enjoy a Hungarian Empire. That being said don’t memorable last evening in Austria before make the mistake of thinking it too similar returning to the hotel (roundtrip to Austria. Having played host to Celtic transportation to Grinzing is included). tribes, Roman legions, nomadic Magyars, Tatar raiders and Ottoman invaders, DAY 5 ~ VIENNA – Hungary is nothing if not a fascinating GYŐR – KOMÁRNO - melting pot! BUDAPEST After breakfast and check- DAY 6 ~ SZENTENDRE out, your group will bid farewell to Austria AND BUDAPEST and head east by private coach to the SIGHTSEEING Hungarian capital of Budapest. En-route, After breakfast in the hotel, enjoy interesting sightseeing beginning today your group will set out on an exciting with a stop in the Hungarian town of Győr. day of sightseeing. Today’s tour will begin Nestled near Hungary’s northwestern with a short drive north to the pretty borders with Austria and Slovakia, the Hungarian town of Szentendre, a popular ancient city of Győr lies at the confluence excursion from Budapest. Szentendre is of three rivers: the Danube, Rábca and known for its Slavic influences (particularly Rába. This morning your group will enjoy a Serbian), baroque architecture and thriving one-hour walking tour of Győr before artist community, and during your visit this continuing east to the river port town of morning, you’ll find no shortage of galleries Komárno, Slovakia. or museums. After a guided walking tour, your group will return to central Budapest Upon arrival you and your fellow travelers to learn all about this strikingly-beautiful will have free time for lunch before setting city. out on a one-hour walking tour of Komárno. Prior to the conclusion of World Interestingly, Budapest didn’t exist prior to War I, Komárno was actually located in 1873 but instead was three distinct cities: Hungary. Today the city has retained Buda, Pest, and Óbuda. The city’s political something of its former Hungarian past, and cultural development led to its which you will see during your walking tour becoming the truly enchanting capital city of its Old Town. Afterwards your group will that you will visit today. You will not run proceed directly to the hotel in Budapest. out of things to do in Budapest as it is After check-in and time to freshen up, your home to gorgeous architecture, one of the group will feast on Hungarian specialties in largest synagogues in Europe, a wonderful the hotel’s restaurant, and tomorrow you café culture, terrific classical music venues will begin sightseeing in Hungary’s historic and geothermal baths where locals and capital.
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