EUROPEAN DISCOVERY

London:

• Amsterdam is as cute as it comes & sure to win your heart with its cobbled main streets, canalside views, obscure museums & a café culture like no other.
• Today, you’re free to use your time to get local, bar hop, museum crawl, or sign up to check out the STRAAT museum (located in a former NDSM shipyard), or just explore!
• If you’re hungry to taste your way through the local culture, this place is famous for Dutch pancakes, frites, cheese, stroopwafels and coffee – or you can take the opportunity to visit the small Dutch fishing village of Volendam for an optional dinner.
• Tonight, you have the option to sign up for an iconic cruise through Amsterdam, complete with an onboard bar.

Optional Experience:

• Visit the Artistic STRAAT Museum
• Volendam Dinner
• Evening Canal Cruise

• Amsterdam, it’s been lovely, but it’s time to say ‘tot ziens!’ because this aernoon we’re seing off for our next country,
  Germany

Sankt Goar

• Aer the scenic journey of fairytale castles, vineyards and valleys, you’ll be charmed before we even arrive in Germany’s famous Rhine Valley
• There’s a river cruise up for grabs, and this back-in-time town is our host for the optional wine-tasting experience this evening.

Included Experience:

• See the River Rhine
• Cruise down the Rhine
• Learn how Beer Steins are made

Optional Experience:

• Rhine Valley Wine Tasting MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Sankt Goar:

• Too much grape juice last night? Not to worry, the prospect of this Bavarian hidden gem should li your spirits as we travel south & swap wine culture for beer.

Dinkelsbühl

• Quintessential German experiences don’t get much beer than visiting this charming medieval town.
• We’ll stroll the cobblestoned streets, checking out vibrant market squares and picturesque half-timbered houses along the way

Munich:

• Today our eyes will be treated to a famous Gothic clock, a charming old town & traditional Bavarian culture. You’ll have the option to explore the side streets by foot (or by a bike on an optional guided tour!).
• And aerwards why not choose to explore one of the city’s many beer halls, where you can try a stein of beer or even a pork knuckle!

Included Experience:

• See Lorelei Rock
• Drive along Germany’s Romantic Road
• Clink your Steins at a Beer Hall

Optional Experience:

• Mike’s Bike Tour

Munich

• Goodbye Munich, hello mountains. Today we’re crossing the Bavarian Alps and hiing the road for Italy.

Venice

• And just like that, we’re in a new country and a whole new vibe.
• Ah, Venice! Fresh pasta, lilting accents & romantic architecture – we’ve arrived in one of Italy’s most famous cities.
• Your jaw will hit the floor over hidden lanes, story book bridges & a private Motoscafo ride.
• What next? There are a bunch of optional experiences lined up to help you experience this city – gondola rides, venetian dinners, all the good stuff.

Included Experience:

• Cruise on a Motoscafo to Venice
• See Canals and Gondolas

Optional Experience:

• Gondolas
• Venetian Dinner
• Gooses T-Shirts

Venice

• Farewell floating city, but Italy, we’re not done with you yet, our next destination – the Eternal City of Rome is just around the corner.

Baschi

• But first, we have an epic, included MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience to enjoy.
• Casale Polegri is set within the gorgeous town of Baschi, where we’ll meet the Polegri family.
• These guys have run their vineyard and olive orchard for generations, and aer giving us the grand tour, will serve us lunch.
• As we overlook the Umbrian landscape, enjoying some of the most authentic Italian food we’ve ever tasted (topped off with the Polegri’s very own wine, naturally), we might reflect that we’ve never had it so good. It’s the kind of local travel experience you don’t encounter every day.

Rome

• The aernoon will really take it up a notch as we uncover Italian icons in the country’s capital of Rome, as you get a glimpse of its glory by night.
• Gelato, pizza and ancient monuments – perfeo!

Included Experience:

• Tour Rome on Foot
• Lunch at Casale Polegri MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

• Rome wasn’t built in a day – so get up and get going early to make the most of this ancient city.
• Hit the streets for your own discoveries.
• Or choose to take a guided tour of the Colosseum.
• Throw coins in fountains and sip espresso in a prey street watching Italian life float by.
• And even join the optional food tour we’ve got planned in the city!

Optional Experience:

• Emperors & Gladiators inc Colosseum
• Taste your way through Rome

• We may be hiing the road again, but we’re not done with Italy just yet. We have one more city to lust over…

Florence

• The dome of Duomo Cathedral sits above the city, making certain we know we have arrived in Florence.
• Take a moment to take in the unique beauty of this beautiful city, where culture and la dolce vita is evident in every direction you look.
• We’ll become history buffs on a guided walking tour, before we learn the art of leather.
• Tonight you can choose to begin your Tuscan love affair at an optional dinner.

Included Experience:

• Florence Walking Tour

Optional Experience:

• Tuscan Evening

• Say a fond farewell to Italy, and hello to the land of creamy chocolate, cheese and not to mention watches. Hello
  Switzerland!

Lucerne

• Swans float under wooden bridges, snowcapped mountains stand regally behind us & chocolate tastes like heaven on earth.
• Today, you’ve got the option to take a lake cruise to check out all the Apline scenery.
• You’re in the Swiss Alps & you cannot wipe the smile off your face!

Included Experience:

• See Cultural Gems in Lucerne

Optional Experience:

• Lucerne Lake Cruise

• Out with the altitude, in with the inner-city Parisian bliss.
• Once we’ve crossed the border out of Switzerland, we will be
  coasting through the prey wine producing region of Burgundy before our arrival in Paris.

Paris

• Lamp-lit bridges, a sparkling Eiffel Tower, & evening coffee haunts, tonight we fall in love with everything Paris.
• Our Trip Manager fills us in on the city’s secrets as we celebrate our first night in the city.

Included Experience:

• Take a Tour of Paris

• It’s time to stroll the dreamy streets of Paris, moan over haute couture you can’t afford, admire the Notre Dame Cathedral whilst juggling coffee and crêpes, & get artsy at the many rooms of the Louvre.
• Just don’t wear yourself out, you will probably want to get involved with an optional ticket to an iconic cabaret show and dinner.
• With your last night looming, make it one to remember in the city of lights.

Included Experience:

• Visit a French Perfumery

Optional Experience:

• Nouvelle Eve Cabaret Dinner and Show

• Soak up your last dose of Paris this morning over a coffee and croissant and marvel at how much you’ve seen. And, how close you’ve grown to your new Contiki pals. Sob! Hop back on the coach for a complimentary transfer to CDG airport this morning, or stay onboard for the ride back to London. Plenty of time to start planning the next reunion…

Calais

Dover

London

• This concludes our 12-day Europe itinerary. What a journey! Say a fond farewell to the group as you wrap up the trip on arrival in London.