USA to BUDAPEST

Arrive in Budapest around lunch time

Budapest offers breathtaking Old World grandeur and a thriving cultural life. Situated on both banks of the Danube River, the city unites the colourful hills of Buda and the wide, businesslike boulevards of Pest. Much of the charm of a visit to Budapest lies in unexpected glimpses into shadowy courtyards and in long vistas down sunlit cobbled streets. Although some 30,000 buildings were destroyed during World War II and in the 1956 Revolution, the past lingers on in the architectural details of the antique structures that remain.
Check-into your hotel
Enjoy the balance of the afternoon at leisure to rest up from the transatlantic flight.

Dinner at local restaurant
Overnight Budapest (1)

Breakfast at hotel
Rehearsals (details to be released)

Enjoy half-day city tour of Budapest.
Explore Buda and Pest, and see the Buda Castle, the Fisherman's Bastion, the Hungarian Parliament and Heroes square
Time for shopping at Vaci Utca

Dinner al local restaurant
Overnight Budapest (2)

Breakfast at hotel
General Rehearsal

Opening Concert performance at THE FRANZ LISZT ACADEMY (confirmed)
ROBERT PAGE FESTIVAL SINGERS, SOLOISTS AND THE BUDAPEST CONCERT ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY ROBERT PAGE

Dinner provided
Overnight Budapest (3)

Breakfast at hotel
At leisure in Budapest

Dinner provided
Overnight Budapest (4)

Breakfast at hotel
Depart for Vienna
Arrive Vienna around lunch time

Vienna, one of the great capitals of Europe was for centuries home to the Habsburg rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today the empire is long gone, but many reminders of the city's imperial heyday remain, carefully preserved by the tradition-loving Viennese.
From the late 18th century on, Vienna's culture -- particularly its music -- was famous throughout Europe. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler, and Bruckner all lived in the city.
And at the tail end of the 19th century the city's artists and architects -- Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Josef Hoffmann, Otto Wagner, and Adolf Loos among them -- brought about an artistic revolution that swept away the past and set the stage for the radically experimental art of the 20th century.

Check in hotel

Start your City tour of Vienna with your local guide and see Ring Avenue, the Hofburg Palace, the Opera House, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Mozart's "Figaro House", City Hall and Schoenbrunn Palace.
Enjoy a possible visit to the central cemetery (Honorary tombs of famous composers like Beethoven, Gluck, Schubert, Johann Strauss Father and Son, Lanner and Brahms).
Time at leisure

Dinner provided
Overnight Vienna (5)

Breakfast at hotel
At leisure in Vienna
Evening Concert performance at ST. STEPHANS CATHEDRAL
ROBERT PAGE FESTIVAL SINGERS, SOLOISTS AND THE BUDAPEST CONCERT ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY ROBERT PAGE

Farewell dinner provided at local Heurigen
Overnight Vienna (6)

Buffet breakfast and check-out
Transfer to Vienna International Airport for your return flight back to the USA

• Round trip Air, economy class, per Austrian Airlines between (Participants choice of) Chicago, Washington or New York and Vienna
• 06 overnights in first class hotels in Budapest (4) and Vienna (2)
• Hotel service charges and hotel taxes
• Daily breakfast
• Daily lunch or dinner, depending the schedule
• Private deluxe motor coaches
• One English speaking tour guide in each bus
• One guided city sight-seeing tour in each city (Budapest & Vienna)
• Concert arrangements include 2 concerts as follows: In the Liszt Academy in Budapest and in the St. Stephans Cathedral or Karlskirche in Vienna
• 3 Rehearsals
• Top Hungarian Orchestra
• Group travel insurance is included in the package price

The price does NOT include:

• Airport taxes and fees as well as fuel surcharges of approximately US$225 per person