SAMPLE ITINERARY

In the following itinerary we have combined 3 night stays in four different destinations, that are located within a day’s coach drive of each other.

You can alter the length of the tour; include other destinations and or change the order of the resorts to suit.

Remember that this is only a “sample” itinerary

DAY ONE - Warsaw

• Arrive at Warsaw airport, meet your tour manager and onward transfer to your hotel by coach
  Arrival at your hotel
• Evening meal at your hotel
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DAY TWO - Warsaw

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Guided walking tour of the City. Walk along the Royal Route – the most representative thoroughfare in the city, linking the Royal Castle with palaces in Lazienki and Wilanów. The route, shaped by ages of history, captivates with the atmosphere of palaces, churches, bourgeois tenements and seats of government.
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY THREE - Warsaw

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Monuments in Warsaw were highly valued by UNESCO. As a consequence, the Old Town of Warsaw was honoured with an entry in the list of the World Cultural Heritage.
• Lunchtime: Sing High Mass at the Cathedral Sw Jana  or
• Afternoon concert in a square or park for bands
• Evening concert at the Holy Trinity Church
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY FOUR - Krakow           

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Depart by coach for Krakow on a 5 hour drive
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY FIVE - Krakow 

• Breakfast at your hotel
• For centuries Krakow was the capital of Poland, the seat of kings, drawing great scholars and artists from the whole world. The renaissance Royal Castle at Wawel, the gothic St Mary's Basilica, the historical trade pavilions of the Cloth Hall, the former separate Jewish city of Kazimierz, and even the Nowa Huta distric are all places which make a visit to Krakow extremely worthwhile.
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY SIX - Krakow   

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Possible excursions out of Krakow could include Auschwitz concentration camp (Oswiecim -  61km from Krakow).  This concentration camp was built by the Nazi's in June 1940  or the Salt mines in Wieliczka (13km from Krakow) which have been mined for almost 1000  years. Here  you will find that miners have left behind dozens of  corridors, chambers and galleries that you can explore, of which some have been turned  into  chapels,  museums,  and with  many  different  types  of sculptures  made out of salt
• Lunchtime participation in mass at St. Catherine's Church and
• Evening concert at St. Catherine's Church suitable for bands, choirs or orchestras or
• Evening concert the Church of St Judwiga
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY SEVEN - Vienna

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Depart by coach for Vienna a 6 hour drive across the new country of Slovakia
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY EIGHT -Vienna

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Guided tour by coach and on foot of Vienna. Walk in the footsteps of the Habsburgs, visit the splendid baroque Schönbrunn and Belvedere Palaces, or stroll along the magnificent Ring Boulevard and take a look at the heart of the former vast Habsburg empire, the Imperial Palace. Get a sense of the luster and glory of the old empire by visiting St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the Spanish Riding School
• Afternoon concert at Schonbrunner Palace for bands
• Evening concert at the gardens of the Castle in St Leonhard for bands
• Evening meal at your hotel
• Afterwards ride on the Giant Ferris Wheel at the Prater. It turns leisurely to its highest point (64 meters) and enables the visitor to enjoy impressive views of the city

DAY NINE - Vienna

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Vienna's outskirts are especially attractive: romantic landscapes and picturesque villages. The majestic Benedictine Abbey of Melk, towering above the River; the vintner's villages Spitz, Dürnstein and Weissenkirchen. The Danube Tower with its 150-meter-high observation terrace and its two slowly turning restaurants
• Guided  tour  followed  by  a 30 minute recital at Melk  Abbey
• Evening concert at the Parish Church in Bad Tatzmannsdorf or
• Evening concert at Maria am Gestade in Vienna for choirs
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY TEN - Budapest

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Depart by coach for Budapest, which is an easy morning’s journey of 4 hours. In fact take a detour to The Esterhazy Palace, where Haydn composed many of his works
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY ELEVEN - Budapest

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Guided City tour of the two sides of the River Danube, Buda and Pest. The views from the Buda side oare dominated by the River crossings of the Liberty, Elizabeth and Chain bridges and The Parliament building, which has become the symbol of the capital and which was built between 1880 and 1902. The views are best obtained from either….
• Rising steeply above the capital, Gellért Hill which seems from the Danube to be a huge cliff, although it is only 140 metres above the level of the river. Owing to its exceptional situation, it offers a peerless panorama of the entire city. OR
•  The Fishermen's Bastion which is one of the most popular spots of the Castle District with visitors, as it offers a grand panorama of almost the entire city. Its architecture is characteristic of the turn of the century; its flights of stairs, its projections, its turrets, and its ambulatory-like galleries make it a mixture of the neo-Gothic and neo-Roman- esque styles and of the romantic baronial castles.
• On this side of the River you can visit he Castle District in Buda which is the ancient kernel of the capital's right-bank settlement with the Royal Palace was begun in the middle of the thirteenth century.
• Evening concert at the Roman Catholic Church in the Town of God or
• Evening concert at St. Michael's R.C. Church
• Evening meal at your hotel

DAY TWELVE - Budapest

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Morning or afternoon visit, a short distance away to the Danube Bend. The Danube is the second longest river in Europe after the Volga, flowing for 1,771 miles (2,857km) through nine different countries. Before reaching Budapest it is forced through a narrow twisting valley in the pretty Carpathian Basin, known as the Danube Bend. The cluster of towns on the bend offers an amazing collection of history, culture and architecture, particularly the small towns of Szentendre, Visegrád and Esztergom.
• Esztergom is one of Hungary's most historically important towns, it was the capital for over 250 years and the birthplace of their beloved first king and saint, Stephen, who was later crowned here in the 11th century. Today it remains the religious centre of the country with Hungary's largest church dominating the hill. The colossal basilica was the first cathedral in the country and from where Roman Catholicism was introduced to the nation.
• Szentendre, 'The Pearl of the Danube Bend', is a quaint old market town with meandering cobbled lanes, little squares, red-tiled roofs and brightly painted houses
• Visegrad was once a Roman stronghold on the border of the Roman Empire and the second home after Buda to Hungary's royalty in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Citadel sits high on the hill with commanding views over the river bend. On the banks of the river are the ruins of the magnificent palace, one of the finest ever built in Hungary, which is now the open air King Matthias Museum.
• Morning performance at the Museum of Ethnography or
• Morning concert at American International  School  Budapest or
• Afternoon concert at Gyula Spa Complex
• Evening meal at your hotel
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DAY THIRTEEN - Budapest

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Depart by coach for Budapest airport and depart for home