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6/1/2026 |
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7/19/2027 |
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Departure |
Munich 2 • Innsbruck 1 • Lucerne 2 • Heidelberg 1
Accommodations in centrally-located three-star or four-star hotels. Rooming on a triple basis. Double rooms: $300 per person.
Round-trip transportation on scheduled airline. Deluxe touring motorcoach. All public transportation tickets included where applicable.
All breakfasts. One lunch. All dinners. Traditional cheese fondue dinner on Day 6. Lunch in Titisee on Day 7.
Services of a specially-trained passports Tour Director throughout. All tips are included in the Program Cost. Whisper headsets included.
Entrances and activities as noted on itinerary.
Passports provides a complimentary Post-Departure Travel Protection Plan that includes coverage for Trip Interruption, Trip Delay, Medical Expenses, and more.
Arrival in Munich: Arrival transfer
Tour Director-led walking tour in the Schwabing area: Schwabing Christmas Market
Dinner
Overnight
Half-day city sightseeing in Munich: Local Guide, Nymphenburg Palace and Gardens
Christmas Markets: Christkindlmarkt, Kripperlmarkt, Medieval Christmas Market
Dinner
Overnight
Travel to Innsbruck via Neuschwanstein: Neuschwanstein Castle
Tour director-led walking tour in Innsbruck
Dinner
Overnight
Travel to Lucerne via Liechtenstein: Sightseeing stop in Vaduz, Liechtenstein's capital city
Dinner
Overnight
Tour director-led walking tour in Lucerne
Traditional cheese fondue dinner
Overnight
Travel to Heidelberg, via Rhine Falls, Black Forest, Titisee,: Rhine Falls from Laufen Castle's Belvedere Platform and Panoramic Elevator, Scenic Drive through the Black Forest, Sightseeing stop at the lakeside town of Titisee, Lunch in Titisee
Dinner
Overnight
Depart Heidelberg via Frankfurt
Depart the U.S. for Europe via scheduled carrier. This is the big day! Watch the morning light gather slowly, first off the left-hand side of the airplane, then everywhere. It's the next day, and Germany!
You'll be struck by your first impression of Munich and its landmarks, which have been beautifully restored to their pre-war conditions.
In the company of your Tour Director, explore Schwabing, the area popular with Munich's youth, students, artists and writers alike. This part of the city retains an offbeat flavor, very much like Greenwich Village in New York City, or the Latin Quarter in Paris. Writers Ibsen and Rilke, as well as artists Klee and Kandinsky, lived and worked here.
The Schwabing Weihnachtsmarkt, true to its location in Munich's bohemian district, is the finest of Munich's artists markets and a showcase for contemporary culture, with high-quality crafts, art, music and culinary delights!
A sightseeing tour in München takes you around the impressive Theresienwiese, site of the famous annual Oktoberfest. In the center of the city discover the grand set-piece boulevards of the Ludwigstrasse and Maximilianstrasse with their Neoclassical palaces, and the monumental Feldherrnhalle where, in 1923, Hitler failed in his attempt at the coup d'état known as the Munich Putsch. See the student area of Schwabing, Königsplatz, the Residenz, the Frauenkirche, whose 300-foot-high onion-domed towers symbolize the Munich skyline, and the historic Marienplatz. The tour ends with a performance of the red-coated mannequins in the Neuen Rathaus (Town Hall) Glockenspiel.
A half-day local guide, well-educated and specially-trained on the history and culture of Munich, will accompany your group.
Visit Nymphenburg Palace, once the summer residence of the Bavarian sovereigns. See rooms decorated in their original Baroque style from the 17th century, as well as Rococo and Neoclassical decor. The gardens were landscaped in the 18th century by an employee of André Le Nôtre, who designed the gardens of Versailles.
Munich's Christmas market tradition dates back to the medieval fairs of the 14th century. Nowadays, the capital of Bavaria sparkles at Christmastime with some twenty markets located throughout the city, many with a special theme (there's even one at the airport, with a skating rink!).
Visit Munich's historic Christmas Market (Christkindlmarkt), held in the splendid setting of Marienplatz, by the Town Hall. It's got all one can expect of a German Christmas market, with a hundred and fifty stalls set up around a 100-foot-tall Tannenbaum dressed in white lights.
Check out the Kripperlmarkt (Manger Market) located on Rindermarkt, a short walk from Marienplatz. This market offers all that's needed (and more!) to create Nativity scenes, notably exquisite woodcarvings from Oberammergau and the South Tyrol.
For a journey through the Germany of fairy tales, walk through the Medieval Christmas Market (Mittelaltermarkt), located on Wittelsbacherplatz, near the Odeonplatz U-Bahn station. There, euros are called guilders, costumed vendors hawk traditional ornaments and tempting food (roasted piglets are popular), and musicians entertain the crowd.
Today, follow a scenic route into fantasyland.
Enter the dream castle built by Bavaria's "mad" King Ludwig II. About Neuschwanstein, the model for Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty's castle, it is said that Ludwig employed a stage set designer rather than an architect. The result is pure theatrical fantasy, stimulated by the King's fancy for Wagnerian music: from artificial grottoes to ornate rooms to dazzling views of the Alps from the belvedere.
Your coach takes you to the Austrian mountain resort of Innsbruck, which hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice, in 1964 and 1976.
The city's historic center is concentrated in a few small blocks. Your tour director will introduce landmarks such as the Hofburg Palace (summer residence of the Hapsburg monarchs), the cathedral, the Little Golden Roof, Maria-Theresien-Strasse, and the rococo-style Helblinghaus. View the Triumphpforte the Triumphal Arch is one of Innsbruck's most prominent sights. Like a triumphal arch of antiquity, it bears witness to Innsbruck's history.
Enjoy a visit to the Christmas markets in Innsbruck, a magical winter experience set against the stunning backdrop of the snow-covered Nordkette mountains. The most famous market, located in the Old Town (Altstadt) beneath the Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl), features charming wooden stalls selling traditional Tyrolean crafts, festive decorations, and seasonal treats like Kiachln (fried pastries with cranberry sauce).
More majestic scenery today as you travel through Austria's Arlberg Alps to the postage-stamp-sized Principality of Liechtenstein. A fragment of the former Germanic Confederation, it became a sovereign state in 1719 but now functions as an economic satellite of the Swiss Confederation, to which it is linked by monetary, postal and diplomatic conventions.
Enjoy a photo stop in Liechtenstein's capital city, which is famous for its Postage Stamp Museum!
Cross the border into Switzerland, traveling through its historic cantons to William Tell's country.
Explore Lucerne's Old Town. You may want to feed the ducks from the ancient wooden Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge). Pause at Thorvaldsen's Löwendenkmal (or Lion of Lucerne), near the remarkable Glacier Gardens. See the large and noble Jesuitenkirche, one of the landmarks that show that the rural alpine areas in central and southern Switzerland remained Roman Catholic following the Reformation.
Soak in the traditional Swiss festive atmosphere at the Franziskanerplatz Christmas Market held in the heart of Lucerne. Featuring beautifully decorated wooden stalls selling handmade crafts, seasonal delicacies, and holiday gifts. Visitors can enjoy Swiss specialties like Glühwein (mulled wine), roasted chestnuts, and gingerbread while listening to live Christmas music.
At tonight's dinner, taste a real Swiss cheese fondue.
Stop in the Swiss town of Dachsen to visit Schloss Laufen, built on a rocky spur above the colossal Rhine River Falls. Goethe described the spectacle of the river plunging from a height of seventy feet at the foot of this medieval fortress as "the Source of the Ocean." Take in the view from the castle's Belvedere Walk and Platform, but don't miss the panoramic elevator.
Travel through the wooded landscapes of the mountainous Schwarzwald.
Pause in a small town located on the picturesque shores of the glacial lake Titisee, and you'll understand why it has become a favorite destination.
Enjoy lunch at a quaint restaurant.
Continue to the seat of Germany's oldest university (1386) , which inspired Sigmund Romberg's operetta The Student Prince.
Get ready for your last German Christmas Market, the Weihnachtsmarkt, open during the four weeks of the Advent. Enjoy the seasonal music and hear the choirs sing traditional songs of the season. Stroll through the festively lit areas and sample some of the local specialties, some prepared only at Christmastime. Have your final Glühwein and find your last souvenirs.
Board your coach for the ride to Frankfurt.
Auf Wiedersehen! Memories of Glockenspiels, Cinderella castles, oom-pah bands, fastidiously clean villages and fast, sleek automobiles all blur together as you bid adieu to Germany at the bustling Frankfurt airport.
You'll arrive home eager to share your adventures with family and friends.
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