Number of days: 12
Country/City: Czech Republic/Prague, Italy/Rome, Austria/Vienna, Hungary/Budapest, Slovak Republic/Bratislava
This great round-trip tour, we do recommend for those, who want to see admirable highlights of Rome, Prague, Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava. We offer you to visit 5 countries, to spend 11 nights in 3*** /4****Hotels, English speaking escort, private bus and grand city tours in major cities and wide choice of other excursions.
1st day: Arrival in Prague, Czech Republic. Transfer from the airport to Hotel is on upon request. Optional: Czech folk dinner at local restaurant.Check-in hotel. Overnight in Prague.
2nd day: Breakfast and departure from Prague to Rome by flight. Pick up and airport transfer are upon your request. Check in. Overnight in Rome.
3rd day: Breakfast. Rome Sightseeing tour.Overnight in Rome.
4th day: Breakfast. Optional: Vatican tour.Overnight in Rome.
5th day: Breakfast. Optional: Neapol tour.Overnight in Rome.
6th day: Breakfast. Rome - Prague flight. Prague Sightseeing tour.After breakfast the transfer to airport (upon request) and flight to Prague. Pick up in Prague and airport transfer to hotel are upon request. Check in and pick up for Prague City Tour. We invite you to historical center of Prague. You will see Royal Palace, St. Vitus Cathedral, St. George Monastery and Golden Lane. A pleasant stroll through romantic Nerudova Lane will lead you to Lesser Town with its famous and marvelous palaces and medieval Charles Bridge ( Karluv Most). Then, all together, we come in Old Town Square surrounded by Old Town Hall with its famous Astronomical Clock, Tyn and St. Nicholas Churches. From Old Town Square, we continue our tour to Wenceslas Square with St. Wenceslas statue .We finish our tour on National Museum, in the heart of Prague. From that point, you will have a chance to do some shopping and to have your lunch in one of charming traditional or international restaurants. Overnight in Prague.
7 th day: Breakfast. Prague - Vienna by private bus. Check in. Departure from Prague to Vienna (approx. 305 km, 4 hours). On the way to Vienna, we will show you the beautiful countryside of South Bohemia. Short stop nearby the city of Znojmo for rest. Arrival to Vienna. Accommodation at the hotel. Departure from the hotel for VIenna City Tour. We will drive you around Vienna’s Ringstrasse, a leafy boulevard around the heart of the city and the location of many impressive buildings, for example the State Opera House, the Hofburg (Imperial Palace), the Museums of Fine Arts and Natural History, the Parliament, the Burgtheater, the City Hall and the University. Our guide will show you the most interesting and famous places of Vienna. Overnight in Vienna.
8 th day: Breakfast. Optional: Half day optional tour to Vienna Woods - Castle Liechtenstein - Seegrotte - Mayerling - Abbey of Heiligenkreuz - Baden. Excursion which shows you the most beautiful sights of the southern part of the Vienna Woods. Passing the Roman City of Baden which is famous for its thermal springs, we drive through the romantic valley Helenental to the former Mayerling hunting lodge, (visit of memorial chapel), where Crown Prince Rudolph together with Baronesse Vetsera died tragically in 1889. In the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (1133) you visit the medieval cloister which houses the remains of the last Babenberger. We then pass the Höldrichsmühle and arrive at the Seegrotte. After a boat ride on the largest subterranean lake in Europe you leave the Vienna Woods and return to VIenna throught Castle Liechtenshtein (stop for photo). Optional: Mozart & Strauss concert with dinner. Overnight in Vienna.
9th day: Vienna – Budapest by bus. Check in. Budapest Grand City Tour.After having a breakfast, we invite you to Schonbrunn Palace. Vienna - Budapest drive. Arrival and check in hotel. At the second part of the day, we invite you for Budapest Grand City Tour. You will see the impressive neo-gotic house of Parliament (home of the holy hungarian crown) with guidance through the Splendid Boardrooms and Impressive Staircases. You cross the Danube on the Margaret-bridge (Margaret island) and drive to the Royal castle on the Buda side, where you visit the Fishermens' bastion and the Matthias church. After the Citadel you cross Elisabet -bridge and drive the City-park towards Heroes' sqare. We will pass by the Opera and St Stephen's basilica. Optionally: Danube Boat trip with/without dinner. During the candle-lit boat trip the Operetta Company founded by excellent singing, instrumental and dancing artists of the Hungarian State Opera House takes care of your entertainment. They sing and play the pearls of popular operettas, operas, Italian and Spanish songs, musicals in original languages as well as brilliant classical, step, belly and Hungarian folk dances in spectacular costumes. Overnight in Budapest.
10th day: Optional: Half day tour in Szentendre.There is a small, but very famous baroque city at the gate of the Danube Bend, at the meeting place of the river Danube and the Pilis Hills, in a beautiful natural setting. With a 25-minute drive from Budapest, we reach this picturesque Artist's Village called Szentendre. We enjoy the special atmosphere of this village. We also stop at the Confectionery Museum. Optional: Hungarian folk dinner with live music and dance. Overnights in Budapest.
11th day: Budapest – via Bratislava - Prague.After you have breakfast, we departure from Budapest to Prague via Bratislava. Our road will pass through the city of Gyor. The City of Gyor is a place of merge of three rivers - Danube, Raba and Rabka. On the way to Prague, we will stop in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, for a lunch (optional). Bratislava is medieval city with thousand-year history and unusual atmosphere, architecture in a Baroque style, between 1563 and 1830 years the city was a place of crowning of the Hungarian kings. Bratislava – free walking time or lunch break. Evening arrival to Prague (approx. at 18:00). Optional evening program: State Opera or National Theatre visit (entrances tickets are from 14euro up to 50 euro); Boat Vltava River trip with music and dinner. Overnight in Prague.
12th day: Departure .
Price includes:
- 11 nights accommodation in 3*/4* Hotel in Prague, Vienna, Budapest
- BB, DBL accommodation
- English speaking escort (another language upon request is possible)
- English speaking guide (another language upon request is possible)
- Private bus transfers
Price excludes:
- Entrance fees
- Arrival and departure transfers
- Flight tickets (upon your request)
Price: per person / in room / for package
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