Our Tour Features:
- Group size: Our groups are small, with a maximum of 8 people per tour.
- Guided Tours: We lead our own in-depth tours, focusing on Germany’s long, fascinating, and often complex history, culture, and people.
- Diverse Activities: We offer a mix of cultural highlights, natural beauty, less traveled sights, concerts, and free time with optional wine tasting, shopping, and more.
- Sightseeing: All of our personal guided tours, official tours and entry fees are part of the package.
- Transportation: We’ll travel by car, rather than bus, giving us the flexibility to take detours and also offer a choice of activities.
- Local connections: Each tour includes opportunities to connect with locals
- Flexibility: With two guides and a small group, we are equipped to offer two different options on some days, thereby adjusting activity levels.
- Accommodation: You’ll stay in small, unique hotels, carefully chosen to fit with the historical period and cultural theme that is the focus of each place.
- Meals: You’ll enjoy a breakfast each day and the first dinner of the trip included in your package.
Rhine Route: September 6 – 15, 2018
(Note: departure from the US must be on September 5, 2018)
Package for 10 days and 9 nights: $2,200 per person for double room occupancy
Single occupancy: add $350 to package
No hidden costs or excursion fees
Tour starts and ends at Frankfurt Airport.
Included:
- Benefits of our tour features listed above, including one concert (tbd)
- Transfer to and from the airport in Germany
Not included:
- Flight to Frankfurt
- Dinners except the first night in Trier and one night in Bacharach
- Lunches
Your non-refundable deposit of $500 is due when you make your reservation. The remainder of the fee is due 45 days before the day of departure.
Highlights of Rhine Tour:
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- Trier:
Historic downtown, Porta Nigra, Basilica, High Cathedral of St. Peter - Bernkastel-Kues:
Half-timbered houses in downtown, beautiful bank of the Moselle River, quaint shops, wine tasting options - Aachen:
Charlemagne’s Cathedral, Elisenbrunnen (historic fountain), historic downtown, Aachener Printen (special cookie) - Cologne:
Gothic Cathedral, historic downtown, Romanesque churches - Düsseldorf:
Rhine Promenade, Gehry buildings, TV tower, Königsallee (shopping boulevard) - Maria Laach:
Romanesque Abbey, picturesque surrounding with volcanic lake - Eltz Castle
- Bacharach on the Rhine:
Cruise to Loreley Rock, hike, bike or lounge - Bingen:
Hildegard von Bingen garden, Mouse Tower - Heidelberg:
Historic downtown, Renaissance castle, Philosopher’s Way, paddle boats, shopping - Schwetzingen:
Baroque castle with beautiful gardens - Speyer:
Romanesque castle
Highlights:
- In Berlin:
Spree River Cruise, Reichstag, Ku’damm, tour of historic Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie Museum,
Visit the Reichstag; enjoy a relaxing cruise on the Spree River; explore Ku’damm, one of the most famous avenues in Berlin and its many retail opportunities; climb the Cathedral for a beautiful view; stroll around Sansoucci, Frederick The Great’s a terraced garden while admiring his large summer residence just above. - In Quedlinburg: Explore narrow alleys with seven centuries of half-timbered buildings and a thousand years of history in this endlessly scenic town, one of the most underrated places in Germany.
- In Eisenach: Travel through the lush forested hills of Thuringia to reach Eisenach and its fairytale castle, Wartburg where you’ll earn about its most famous resident, Martin Luther.
- In Weimar: Follow the footsteps of German cultural heroes such as Goethe, Liszt, and the Bauhaus masters.
- In Leipzig: Experience Europe’s new cultural hotspot and check out the city’s beautiful churches.
- In Dresden: Stroll along the banks of the Elbe River, take in the view, and understand why the city is known a “Florence on the Elbe.”
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