17 Days 16 Nights
Daily Tour
Private / Custom
English
London (2N) – Amsterdam (2N) – Paris (2N) – Lucerne (3N) – Zurich (1N) – Salzburg (2N) – Prague (2N) – Budapest (2N) · by train, with sightseeing passes and tours · independent rail tour · price on request · your dates
If you could take only one long holiday in Europe, this might be it. Seventeen days by train carry you from London across the Channel to Amsterdam and Paris, up into the Swiss Alps, past the Rhine Falls and on through Mozart’s Salzburg to the two great capitals of Central Europe, Prague and Budapest. This 17 Days Europe tour with Prague and Budapest gives you the hotels, trains, passes and main sightseeing in one plan, with time to wander at your own pace. It is planned and supported by IMAD Travel, an IATA-certified travel agency in Hyderabad serving travellers from across India since 2011. We can arrange this same route, or a similar one, as a custom package for your couple, family or group, on your own dates and with your choice of hotels. Just quote the tour code IMAD-EU-12846 when you contact us.
WhatsApp +91 63003 03169 for a quote on your dates, or to add Vienna or Interlaken. Tour code: IMAD-EU-12846
Travellers who have saved for the big Europe trip and want to see it properly: couples, honeymooners, retired travellers, families with older children and friends travelling together. There is no Tour Director and no coach group. You follow your own timing each day, with all train tickets and passes ready before you leave India, and our team briefs you on every connection.
The first week is the Europe everyone dreams of. A private car meets you in London, and a hop-on hop-off day with a Thames cruise and the London Eye shows you Buckingham Palace, Westminster and the Tower. The Eurostar takes you to Amsterdam for a canal cruise among the gabled houses, and the train continues to Paris, where you stand on the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower, float down the Seine and spend your evenings on the Champs-Élysées and in the Latin Quarter.
Then the high-speed TGV runs to Basel and Switzerland opens up with your 4-day Swiss Travel Pass. Three nights in Lucerne give you Mt Titlis, with the revolving Rotair, the glacier cave and the Titlis Cliff Walk, a Lake Lucerne cruise, the wooden Chapel Bridge and the Lion Monument, plus a free day for Grindelwald First or Jungfraujoch. From Zurich you ride out to the Rhine Falls, where the whole river thunders over the rocks in clouds of spray.
The second week turns east, into the old heart of Europe. Salzburg is all baroque domes, church bells and Mozart: you pass the Mirabell Gardens, Mozart’s birthplace and Nonnberg Abbey below the Hohensalzburg Fortress. In Prague, the city of a hundred spires, the hop-on bus climbs to Prague Castle above the red roofs of Malá Strana, and on foot you cross the statue-lined Charles Bridge to the Old Town Square, where crowds gather every hour to watch the figures of the medieval Astronomical Clock come to life.
The finale is Budapest, two cities joined by the Danube. From the open-top bus you see the neo-Gothic Parliament, Buda Castle and Fisherman’s Bastion, Heroes’ Square and the great Dohány Street Synagogue. Walk across the Chain Bridge from Buda to Pest, and if you have an evening free, soak in a thermal bath or watch the Parliament glow gold from the riverbank. After seventeen days, it is a beautiful place to say goodbye to Europe.
London from the London Eye. Paris from the Eiffel Tower. The ice cave on Mt Titlis. The Astronomical Clock striking the hour in Prague. The Danube at night in Budapest.
April to June and September to October are the best months for this route: pleasant weather from London to Budapest, the Swiss lifts open and fewer crowds than in July and August. Summer and school holidays fill trains and hotels early, so plan two to three months ahead. December brings the Christmas markets of Salzburg, Prague and Budapest, with colder days and snow in the Alps.
This is a price on request tour: we quote for your dates, hotel category and group size. You need a UK visa for London and a Schengen visa for the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary, and our visa team can guide you with both. You carry your own luggage on the trains, so pack light. Currencies change along the way: the pound, the euro, the Swiss franc, the Czech koruna and the Hungarian forint. Indian and vegetarian food is easy to find in every city on this route.
More of Europe: see our Czech Republic tour packages, Hungary tour packages and Switzerland tour packages, the shorter 15 days Europe tour from London to Budapest, the 12 days Berlin, Český Krumlov and Prague tour, or the 7 days Austria tour.
WhatsApp +91 63003 03169 — quote tour code IMAD-EU-12846 for this 17 days Europe tour with Prague and Budapest.
Welcome to London. Your private transfer takes you from the airport to your hotel. Check in; the rest of the day is free. Oxford Street is a good first walk. Overnight London.
After breakfast, explore London on the hop-on hop-off double-decker bus (24-hour pass): Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London and Piccadilly Circus. The pass includes a one-way Thames River cruise from Westminster Pier, and your London Eye ticket is included. In the evening, visit Leicester Square. Overnight London. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, make your way to St Pancras for the Eurostar to Amsterdam. Check in; the rest of the day is free. Overnight Amsterdam. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, a one-hour canal cruise past the Anne Frank House, the Skinny Bridge, the Westerkerk and the Amstel River. Optional: a countryside tour to the Zaanse Schans windmills, Volendam and Marken. Overnight Amsterdam. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, make your way to Amsterdam Centraal for the train to Paris. Check in; the rest of the day is free for the Seine and the Champs-Élysées. Overnight Paris. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, a Paris city tour by coach (seat-in-coach), with the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower and a one-hour Seine River cruise. In the evening, explore the Latin Quarter. Optional: the Louvre Museum or the Lido cabaret. Overnight Paris. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, make your way to Paris Gare de Lyon for the high-speed TGV to Basel, and connect to Lucerne. Your Swiss Travel Pass starts in Basel and covers Swiss trains, buses and lake boats. Overnight Lucerne. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, take the train to Engelberg and the cable cars up Mt Titlis: the revolving Rotair, the glacier cave and the Titlis Cliff Walk. Back in Lucerne, cruise on Lake Lucerne (included with your Swiss pass). In the evening, walk across the Chapel Bridge to the Lion Monument. Overnight Lucerne. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, a free day with your Swiss pass. Optional: the Stanserhorn by funicular and the open-top CabriO cable car, Grindelwald First with its gondola and mountain carts, or Jungfraujoch, the Top of Europe. Overnight Lucerne. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, take the train to Zurich (about one hour) and check in. Then take the train to Schaffhausen to see the Rhine Falls, the most powerful waterfall in Europe. Evening free in Zurich. Overnight Zurich. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, take the train to Salzburg, on the Salzach River below the Eastern Alps. Check in; the rest of the day is free. Overnight Salzburg. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, explore Salzburg on the hop-on hop-off bus (1 day): Nonnberg Abbey, Kapitelplatz, the Mozart footbridge, Mozart’s birthplace and residence, the Mirabell Palace and Gardens. Overnight Salzburg. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, take the train to Prague, the city of a hundred spires. Check in; the rest of the day is free. Overnight Prague. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, explore Prague with a 24-hour hop-on hop-off pass: Prague Castle, Malá Strana, the Old Town Square with the Astronomical Clock and the Old Jewish Cemetery. Walk across the Charles Bridge. Overnight Prague. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, take the train to Budapest, the capital of Hungary on the Danube. Check in; the evening is free. Overnight Budapest. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, explore Budapest on the hop-on hop-off bus (1 day): the Parliament, Buda Castle, Fisherman’s Bastion, the Citadel, Heroes’ Square and the Dohány Street Synagogue. Walk across the Chain Bridge from Buda to Pest. Overnight Budapest. (Breakfast)
After breakfast, check out and take your private transfer to Budapest airport for your flight home. (Breakfast)
