Best of Bavaria & Berlin

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Explore the very best of Bavaria & Berlin on this exciting 12-day adventure! Based on your feedback we’ve crafted this tour to maximize your comfort and make sure you won’t miss a thing: you’ll overnight in Berlin, Nuremberg, and Munich with daytime excursions to some of Bavaria’s most popular towns. You’ll visit fairy-tale towns like the quintessential R...

Overview

Trip type
Group Tour
Lodging level
Standard - 3 star
Physical level
Easy
Trip pace
Balanced schedule

Highlights

    • Story of Berlin Tour
    • Optional Potsdam Tour
    • Nuremberg City Tour
    • Rothenburg ob der Tauber
    • Bamberg
    • Regensburg
    • Danube River Boat Excursion
    • Munich City Tour
    • Optional Visit to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
    • Neuschwanstein Castle

What's this trip about?

    Explore the very best of Bavaria & Berlin on this exciting 12-day adventure! Based on your feedback we’ve crafted this tour to maximize your comfort and make sure you won’t miss a thing: you’ll overnight in Berlin, Nuremberg, and Munich with daytime excursions to some of Bavaria’s most popular towns. You’ll visit fairy-tale towns like the quintessential Rothenburg ob der Tauber with its medieval old town, beautiful Regensburg with its 12th-century Stone Bridge, Neuschwanstein Castle with its storybook facade, and more; all from your comfortable “home base” so you won’t have to pack your bags each night.

Details

Itinerary focusOff the Beaten Path
Group sizeStandard Group - 25 + people
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transportAll internal transport included (including local flights)
Start CityBerlin
End CityMunich

Travel Themes

  • Cultural
  • Local Immersion & Homestays
  • National Parks
  • Nature & Wildlife

Destinations

Activities

  • Culture
  • Historic sightseeing
  • Homestays & Cultural Immersion
  • Nature
  • Ruins & Archaeology

Trip includes

    • Round-trip international airfare from New York
    • Airfare taxes, fees & fuel surcharges
    • Ground transportation in air-conditioned motor coach
    • Accommodations at First Class hotels
    • Comprehensive sightseeing tours including admission fees as indicated in the itinerary
    • Professional, English-speaking Tour Director throughout

Itinerary

Travel Map
Day 1: Depart USA
Your exciting journey to Germany begins as you depart on your overnight flight to Berlin.

Day 2: Arrive in Berlin, Germany
Meals: Dinner Arrive this morning in Berlin, the capital of Germany. Contrasts between historical buildings and modern architecture, between the traditional and the modern are what set the city apart from the rest. Upon arrival, take a walking tour around the neighborhood of your hotel. After some rest, enjoy a welcome dinner at a local restaurant. Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre or similar

Day 3: Berlin
Meals: Breakfast After breakfast, start your Story of Berlin Tour. Learn about the fascinating history of Berlin during the last century. Visit important sights from the Holocaust and WWII like the Brandenburg Gate, Hitler’s Bunker and the Holocaust Memorial. You also ...
Day 4: Berlin
Meals: Breakfast Today is at your leisure. We recommend an optional tour to the town Potsdam with an inside visit of Cecilienhof House, where the Potsdam Conference took place in 1945. This conference is a symbol of the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War. Ne...
Day 5: Berlin – Nuremberg
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner After breakfast, depart for Nuremberg by motorcoach. The journey is through beautiful landscapes. Arrive in Nuremberg, a city in Northern Bavaria that is distinguished by medieval architecture. The city is an energetic place with beer as dar...
Day 6: Nuremberg – Rothenburg ob der Tauber – Nuremberg
Meals: Breakfast Today, you will take a drive to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. The former imperial town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber is the perfect place to experience medieval and renaissance life in Germany as it was actually lived. Narrow towers and imposing ramparts; wi...
Day 7: Nuremberg – Bamberg – Nuremberg
Meals: Breakfast New day and new Bavarian town to explore! Today you will take a drive to Bamberg, a town that is laid out over 7 hills where the Regnitz and Main rivers meet. Its old town preserves structures from the 11th to 19th centuries including the muraled Altes...
Day 8: Nuremberg – Munich
Meals: Breakfast After breakfast, the group is heading to Munich, the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is the third largest city in Germany and similar to Nuremberg in the sense that it is a great base for exploring Bavaria. Munich is an established and posh city, ...
Day 9: Munich
Meals: Breakfast This day is at your leisure. Consider an optional tour to Dachau, the town where the first Nazi concentration camp was formed. Dachau was a camp for all the groups the Nazis considered undesirable, especially Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political oppon...
Day 10: Munich – Regensburg – Munich
Meals: Breakfast After breakfast, explore Regensburg, a Bavarian city on the Danube River in southeast Germany. The city is the political, economic and cultural centre of Eastern Bavaria. Regensburg is known for its well-preserved medieval core and rise of traders. Aft...
Day 11: Munich – Oberammergau – Neuschwanstein Castle – Munich
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner This morning, travel to Oberammergau, the town famous for more than the Passion Play. Oberammergau has stunning frescos on the homes depicting religions scenes, Bavarian themes and fairytales. Continue to the ethereal Neuschwanstein Castle, ...
Day 12: Munich – USA
Meals: Breakfast After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your return flight to the U.S Return home full of wonderful memories of Germany.

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Price From $3,299
Price per day$275
Single supplement (single occupancy)$599
Last Updated: 4/3/2019

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Accommodation

Nights 1: Overnight Flight Nights 2 - 4 Berlin: Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre Nights 5 - 7 Nuremberg: Maritim Hotel Nuremberg Nights 5 - 7 Munich: Courtyard Munich City East
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Meals Included
14 Meals: 11 Breakfasts and 3 Dinners
Age Requirements
No age restrictions
Optional Activities
Berlin: Potsdam Tour Enjoy an inside visit of Cecilienhof House, where the Potsdam Conference took place in 1945. This conference is a symbol of the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War. Next, admire the picturesque gardens of Sanssouci Palace, one of the largest and most important parks in Europe, offering a combination of fascinating landscapes and unconventional architecture. The day ends with time at leisure in the town of Potsdam. Enjoy a cup of coffee and cake at one of the quaint cafes located in the Dutch Quarter, built in the 1700s to attract Dutch immigrants. Munich: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site Visit Dachau, the town where the first Nazi concentration camp was formed. Dachau was a camp for all the groups the Nazis considered undesirable, especially Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents and anti-Nazi clergy. The Dachau Museum documents what happened there, the rise of Nazism and the implementation of the Final Solution.
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