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10 Day Deluxe Jewish Heritage Tour - Budapest | Vienna | Prague
Optional Pre Tour | 2 Nights Krakow | 1 Night Warsaw
(Tour operates with Min 12 People traveling)
Day 1 - Friday
Arrival Budapest by air
A warm welcome by our driver and transfer to the hotel.
Rest of the day at leisure. Welcome dinner.
Overnight: Kempinski Corvinus Deluxe Room. Budapest.
Meal: Dinner
Day 2 - Saturday
Budapest | 3 Hours Walking Tour
Breakfast at the hotel.
Budapest walking tour: Liberty Square with its stormy history is found on the Pest side of the city. Continue to the Parliament a magnificent example of Neo-Gothic architecture is the third largest parliament building in the world. Our last stop today will be at the Shoes on the Danube memorial created by sculptor Gyula Pauer honoring the Jews who perished at the hands of the fascist Arrow Cross militia. Lunch on your own. Dinner this evening in restaurant. Overnight in Budapest. Carat Boutique Hotel or Similar
Meal: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 3 - Sunday
Budapest | Szentendre | Budapest
Breakfast at the hotel.
Explore the story of Jewish Budapest for the past 150 years, including visits to: The largest synagogue in Europe, The Dohany Street Synagogue. Built in 1859, the synagogue holds 3,000 seats and is home to one of the Neolog communities of Budapest. The late actor Tony Curtis was involved in the restoration of the synagogue in honor of his father, Emanuel Schwartz, who emigrated from Mátészalka in Hungary to New York.The Jewish Museum, which is housed on the site of Theodor Herzl’s family home. This museum holds a unique collection of Jewish artifacts, art and memorabilia which shed a new light on the rich Jewish life and predominant Jewish community of Hungary. Its influence on Hungarian society and its long-lasting memory. The complex courtyard where the Community Holocaust Memorial stands. This impressive monument commemorates over 500,000 Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Lunch on your own en route. Visit of Szentendre center and Synagogue (with tour manager). A riverside town known for its museum, galleries and artists. This is the first Temple built after World War II as a memorial to those who died in the Holocaust from this area.
Optional - Candlelit dinner cruise - drinks and bus transfer included.
Overnight in Budapest.
Meal: Breakfast
Day 4 - Monday
Budapest | Vienna
After breakfast at hotel, with the help of concierge assistance in Budapest and Vienna transfer you from hotel to Budapest Train station. You will board train for Vienna approximately for 2.45 Hrs. in 2nd class coach. After arrival at Vienna station, you will be transfer to hotel and reset of the day at you leisure, for you to explore Vienna city your own. Overnight in Vienna.
Meal: Breakfast
Day 5 - Tuesday
Vienna
After breakfast, your day starts with a 3 hour official city tour of Vienna’s Jewish heritage including Stadtempel. The Stadttempel, also called the Seitenstettengasse Temple, is the main synagogue of Vienna, Austria. It is located in the Innere Stadt 1st district, at Seitenstettengasse 4. Jewish Museum, Memorial to Austrian Holocaust Victims and Judenplatz followed by a visit to the Jewish Museum.Your afternoon is at leisure, perhaps to see the works of Gustav Klimt. Lunch on your own. In evening you will go to local resaurant for Dinner.
Overnight in Vienna.
Meal: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 6 - Wednesday
Vienna - Prague
Breakfast at the hotel and check out.
Traveling by coach to Prague, "The city of a hundred spires". Arrive in Prague and transfer to your hotel for check in at 3.00 pm. if your room isn't available you can leave your luggage with the concierge and walk to street of Prauge. Remainder of the day at leisure.
Lunch on your own. Overnight in Prague.
Meal: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 7 - Thursday
Prague
Breakfast at the hotel. Meet your guide in the hotel lobby prior to departure.
Transfer to Prague Castle for a guided tour and walk along the Golden Lane bulit in the sixteen century, taking its name from the goldsmith that leaved there in the 17th century. Walk through the Lesser Town and over the historic Charles Bridge crossing the Vltava river.
Lunch on your own en route.
Guided visit through Jewish Prague including the Old Ghetto and the Precious Legacy Exhibit at the Jewish Museum, which encompasses the Alt-neu Shul, the Maisel Synagogue, the Pincus Synagogue, the Old Cemetery and the Spanish Synagogue. Return to the hotel and rest of the day at leisure. Overnight in Prague
Optional Dinner - at U Fleku (The Oldest Brewery in Prague).
Meal: Breakfast
Day 8 - Friday
Prague
Breakfast at the hotel, rest of the day at your leisure. You can take an optional tour to Terezin.
Optional Tour:
Meet your guide in hotel lobby, and depart for Terezin, the town that was turned into a ghetto and concentration camp including the Historical Museum and the Art Exhibits, so-called Hidden Synagogue and the Crematorium. Packed lunch en route. Return to hotel in Prague and rest of the day at your leisure, for you to do some shopping.
Overnight in Prague
Meal: Breakfast
Day 9 - Saturday
Prague
Breakfast at the hotel.
3 Hour for Petrin Hill, take the Funicular to the top and enjoy the breathtaking view. Stop at a pastry-shop coffee and Cake.
2 Hour Boat River Cruise, enjoy the view of historical Prague from our boat cruise on the Vltava River.
In evening, Farewell dinner at restaurant like Michal (with Folk Music & soft drinks).
Overnight in Prague
Meal: Breakfast, Farewell dinner
Day 10 - Sunday
Prague - Departure
Good morning! It is now time for you to wrap this tour full of good memories of your beautiful heritage tour. It will be our pleasure, to plan your next tour for any of our world wide tours and other tours. After breakfast, according to your departure flight transfer to Václav Havel Airport Prague International Airport will be provided for your return flight.
Meal: Breakfast
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For information please contact our office at info@ibmttours.com or call 1-877-977-4268
OUR PRICES INCLUDES:
- Welcome and assistance by an IBMT Tours representative upon arrival
- 9 nights in five-star hotels with breakfasts throughout the tour.
- 6 dinner at the hotels
- 1 packed lunch on day 8
- Air-conditioned motorcoach
- English speaking tour escort throughout the tour
- Headsets for the tour
- City taxes
- Entrance fees:
Hungary: Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest, The Jewish Museum in Budapest, Synagogue in Szentendre
Austria: Stadttempel in Vienna, Jewish Museum in Vienna
- Local guides:
Hungary: HD Budapest on Day 2, HD Budapest on Day 3, Guided tour around the Jewish Museum
Austria: HD Vienna, Guided tour around the Jewish Museum
Czech Rep.: FD Prague, Optional Guided tour around the Jewish Museum, Terazin
- Accommodation and meals for driver and tour escort
- Porterage service in & out at the hotels (1 pcs of luggage per pax)
OUR PRICES DO NOT INCLUDES:
- Tips to the guide and the driver.
- Personal expenses.
- No service not specified.
- Portarage at airport.
- Flights.
- Transfers for anyone who does not arrive or depart with the group
- Any meals not mentioned are extra.
- Drinks at meals (except mentioned above).
- Alcoholic drinks on tour (except mentioned above).
Hotels:
Budapest: Carat Boutique Hotel or Similar
Vienna: Regina Hotel or Similar
Prague: K+K Hotel Fenix or Similar
PRE TOUR - 3 NIGHTS EXTENSION KRAKOW | WARSAW ($1,199.00 PP)
Day 1 - Tuesday
KRAKOW
Arrive at John Paul II Kraków-Balice International Airport
A warn welcome by your driver and transfer to the hotel.
Check into the hotel. (Official hotel check-in is from 3:00 p.m., if your room isn't ready upon arrival you can leave your luggage with the concierge.)
Remainder of the day at leisure to get acclimated and explore on your own.
Overnight: Krakow Radisson Blu Krakow.
Day 2 - Wednesday
KRAKOW
Breakfast at the hotel.
Guided walk to Krakow’s Market Square, Kazimierz Jewish Quarter visiting the Altshul, the oldest synagogue in Poland, the Rema Synagogue, the synagogue of Rabbi Moses Isserles the “Rema,” the great codifier of Jewish law, the Rema Cemetery where many great rabbinical leaders of Polish Jewry are buried. See the Temple, Krakow’s Reform congregation, the Galicia Jewish Museum commemorating the victims of the Holocaust and celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective.
Lunch on your own en route.
Take a guided journey following the Jewish community on their journey from Kazimierz crossing over the bridge into the Jewish Ghetto of Podgorze including: The Oscar Schindler Factory Museum which tells the story of the city of Krakow and its residents under Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945. The museum is housed in the administrative building of Oskar Schindler’s enamel factory. Schindler a successful businessman and his wife Emilie who managed to provide a safe environment for over 1,000 Jews and saved them from being sent to Auschwitz. They were later honored with the title of “Righteous Among the Nations”.
Overnight: Krakow Radisson Blu Krakow. (Breakfast)
Day 3 - Thursday
KRAKOW - WARSAW
Breakfast at the hotel.
Private transfer from your hotel to Krakow Railway Station for departure by 1st Class Train to Warsaw. Arrival in Warsaw, visit the newly opened POLIN, Museum of the History of Polish Jews located in the center of what once was the Jewish Ghetto. Explore the 1,000 years of rich history of the Polish Jews beginning from their arrival as merchants through the medieval ages until today. This 43,000 sq. ft. museum includes rare and valuable art, photos, documentation and footage of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world. Guided visit through the Warsaw Ghetto including the Remnants of the Ghetto Wall, the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Mila 18 and Umschlagplatz, site of the deportation of Warsaw’s Jewish community to Treblinka.
Overnight five-star hotel Bristol luxury Collection Warsaw. (Breakfast).
Day 4 - Friday
WARSAW - BUDAPEST
Breakfast at the hotel and and transfer to Warsaw Airport for your flight (not included). Arrival in Budapest and transfer to your hotel.
Join the rest of the group for the main tour. (Breakfast)
