Luxury holidays in Austria
Spend evenings at the Vienna State Opera and mornings beside Alpine lakes. Choose your month and we book your seats, a Danube cruise and every hotel in between.
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Austria
9 days · 8 nights
Vienna → Melk → Passau → Regensburg → Nuremberg → Munich
You begin with two days in Vienna among palaces, Klimt paintings and Christmas markets before boarding your riverboat. The Danube takes you to Melk Abbey, Passau and Regensburg. You end with Nuremberg's famous market and Munich's Marienplatz.
Austria suits travellers who love a sense of occasion. In Vienna you can spend a morning over coffee and cake in a grand café, an afternoon in the Hofburg and an evening at the State Opera, all within walking distance. The city still keeps its rituals, and joining them is the fun of being there.
Out on the Danube, the Wachau Valley lines the river with vineyards, apricot orchards and the Baroque abbey at Melk. Salzburg sits under its fortress with music festivals in summer and markets in Advent. In the Tyrol, Kitzbühel and the mountain villages offer skiing in winter and walking in summer, and the Salzkammergut lakes lie just east of Salzburg.
Moments in and around the capital, arranged around your days.
Visit the only surviving Vienna apartment of Mozart, where he lived in the 1780s, and end the evening with a piano recital of his music.
Watch a pastry chef stretch and roll a classic apple strudel at Café Residenz in the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace, then taste the result.
Ride the giant Ferris wheel in the Prater for the view over the city, then see the trees growing out of the Hundertwasser House.
Drive into the Vienna Woods to Liechtenstein Castle and Heiligenkreuz Abbey, hear the story of Mayerling and walk the Helenental valley.
Vienna suits music and art, and the Alps suit fresh air and walking.
Imperial palaces, the State Opera and St Stephen's Cathedral, with coffee houses and wine taverns on the city's edge.
A baroque abbey above the Danube and terraced vineyards running down to the river through villages such as Dürnstein.
Opera and festival seats are released months ahead, so we plan your dates around them.
Cold and grey, rivers out of season, ball season in Vienna.
Winter in the Alps, quiet in Vienna's museums.
Cool and changeable, the first cruises begin.
Apricot blossom in the Wachau and mild days in Vienna.
Green vineyards and warm days along the Danube.
Long evenings, open-air concerts in Vienna.
Warm and busy, the Salzburg Festival begins late in the month.
Summer heat in Vienna, cooler in the mountains.
Calm weather on the river and the start of the harvest.
Golden vineyards in the Wachau, wine taverns open.
Grey and cool, Christmas markets open late in the month.
Christmas markets in Vienna and along the Danube.
Vienna connects well with the Gulf hubs, and the river is a short drive out of the city.
Budapest is the next stop on most Danube cruises, and Munich and Zurich are both reachable by train.
Munich, the Bavarian Alps and the Danube from Passau.
Budapest's thermal baths and the Danube by night.
Lucerne, the Jungfrau and Lake Geneva by train.
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