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Imperial Highlights
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Length
10 Days
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Quality
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Starts in
Munich (Germany)
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Ends in
Munich (Germany)
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Available Tour Start Dates
APR 23, 2027 to SEP 24, 2027
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Activity Level
No Rating Provided
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Language
English
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Guaranteed Date(s)
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From
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$1,705.73
Overview
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.
Visited During Tour
Bratislava (Slovakia) | Budapest (Hungary) | Gyor (Hungary) | Munich (Germany) | Prague (Czech Republic) | Regensburg (Germany) | Salzburg (Austria) | Vienna (Austria)
Dates, Offers & Prices
Tour Itinerary
More Details
Dates, Offers & Prices
The following are Imperial Highlights tour dates available from Trafalgar. Select a bonus offer graphic to view its details, including its terms.
Tour Itinerary
Trafalgar Tour Code 947-2473
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1Munich’s Squares: Bavaria Begins Here
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 center. 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.
Accommodations: Holiday Inn Express - City East -
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2Follow the Danube Towards Prague
Beyond Munich, your first stop is Regensburg, where the Danube runs beside a UNESCO-listed medieval center 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.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Accommodations: Ibis Praha Mala Strana -
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3Bohemia’s Capital: Prague in Detail
Following your Local Specialist through Prague Castle’s courtyards, you pause inside the Cathedral of St. Vitus, where colored 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 trdelnÃk in hand. Or choose an Optional Experience lunch cruise on the Vltava, passing riverside palaces, bridges and Prague Castle.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Ibis Praha Mala Strana -
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4Cross Slovakia Onwards to Budapest
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 specialties as you drift past Parliament, stone bridges and shimmering riverside lamps.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Ibis Castle Hill -
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5Hungary’s Capital: Budapest in Full
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 neighborhoods 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.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Ibis Castle Hill -
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6Journey from Budapest to Vienna
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.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Senator -
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7Vienna’s Elegance: Schönbrunn, Streets and Sonatas
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.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Senator -
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8Vienna to Salzburg: Danube Valley and Mozart
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.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Accommodations: B&B Salzburg Nord -
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9Return Through Bavaria to Munich
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 meters, passing dark pine slopes, carved chalet balconies and gray-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 travelers, raising a glass to 10 days of cathedrals, castles, river cities and mountain roads.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Accommodations: Holiday Inn Express - City East -
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10Farewell Munich and New Friends
With the warmth of your Bavarian hosts still with you, spend your last hours in Munich sharing favorite 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.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
More Details
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Travelers Notes
* ARRIVAL: Guests are to arrive in Munich at Munich Airport (MUC). Guests should arrive prior to the included orientation tour and Welcome Meeting.* DEPARTURE: Guests are to depart from Munich at Munich Airport (MUC).* TRANSFERS: Both complimentary and chargeable transfers are not offered in conjunction with this trip. Guests should make their own way from/to the airport at their own expense.* PORTERAGE: Porterage is not included; guests will be required to handle their own luggage throughout the tour.* NOTE: This trip falls under LEVEL 1. Please refer to the Deposit, Payment and Cancellations policies on our website.* Trip run by Costsaver.
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