Trip Features
Exclusive Features:
- Only deluxe travel company to include two days in Vienna!
- Full-day tour to Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic — a Vantage exclusive!
- Included tours and entrances to museums and venues, including Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna National Library, Documentation Center in Nuremberg, and more!
- Choice of included tours in Vienna, Würzburg, Rüdesheim, and Passau
- Exclusive classical concert at the Kursalon in Vienna — a value of $170 per couple!
Your Price Includes:
- Purchase your airfare from Vantage and your airport transfers and government taxes and fees are included
- Accommodations: 14 nights aboard a Deluxe Vantage river cruise ship, designed exclusively for the American traveler, in a spacious riverview stateroom
- 13 sightseeing tours plus Cultural Connections— a value of $1,600 per couple!
- 41 meals: 14 breakfasts, 13 lunches, and 14 dinners, including Captain’s Welcome & Farewell Dinners and meals ashore
- Wine with dinner at Captain’s Welcome & Farewell Dinners!
- 8 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Program Managers: Four European experts to accompany you
- Antenna Audio headsets to enhance your sightseeing experience during your cruise and on extensions!
- All transfers & baggage handling overseas (where permitted) when you purchase your airfare from Vantage
- Vantage 5% Travel Reward, received upon your return, ?to use toward your next Vantage Memorable Journey®
Highlights
13 Sightseeing Tours — a value of $1600 per couple!
- Guided visit to Roman-Germanic Museum
- Mini-train ride and visit to your choice of Niederwald Monument or Siegfried’s Musikkabinett
- Full-day visit to Heidelberg, including lunch at restaurant in town
- German village life tour with BBQ lunch and wine festival
- Your Choice: Tour of Rothenburg ob der Tauber or tour of Würzburg Residenz with wine tasting
- Walking tour of Bamberg
- Tour of Nuremberg including Documentation Center and Hitler’s Rally Grounds
- Walking tour of Regensburg
- Your Choice: Full-day visit to Cesky Krumlov, including lunch, or walking tour of Passau with an organ concert
- Choice of tours in Vienna: Art History Museum or Schönbrunn Palace
- City tour of Vienna, including the National Library
- Exclusive classical concert at the Kursalon in Vienna
- City tour of Budapest tour, including Fisherman’s Bastion and Matthias Church
Plus Cultural Connections
- German language lesson
- Onboard Lecture Series: Musical Vienna; Development of Nuremberg; Germany in the 21st Century; Rhine-Main-Danube Canal
- Glassblowing demonstration
- Conversation with college students in Bamberg
- Bavarian beer experience, lecture, and tasting
- Apple strudel-making demonstration
- Local entertainment onboard ship
