Local Living Tours & Trips in Austria and Germany

The tour starts in Munich's old city center, then you'll reach Innsbruck where there's dinner near the Golden Roof in the Tyrolean Old Town. Next up is the Swarovski Crystal Museum in Wattens with its great gardens, followed by Kitzbühel, where the famous Hahnenkamm alpine ski race happens. You'll cruise Traunsee Lake to see four castles before getting to Vienna's Grinzing district, an old wine-growing village.

You'll sail on a 5-star Scenic Space-Ship through Austria and Germany, with a stop in UNESCO-listed Regensburg where you can check out the Romanesque Old Town and Gothic St. James Church. There's a visit to a family-owned butcher in Bavaria where you'll learn to make traditional white breakfast sausages, then head to a historic brewery to try some distinctive Bavarian brews.

Cruise the Rhine, Main, and Danube rivers aboard Emerald Dawn, stopping at UNESCO-listed Cologne Cathedral's Christmas market and the Würzburg Residence. You'll have coffee and cake with a local Slovakian family in Bratislava and attend a traditional Hungarian folklore show in Budapest.

Get into Bavarian culture with brewery visits and beer tastings in Regensburg, then learn to bake Lebkuchen gingerbread with local chefs in Nuremberg. You'll meet villagers in Schermerhorn and check out 16th-century windmills, walk Miltenberg's cobblestone streets with half-timbered houses, and see Rüdesheim's 2,000-year-old wine-making traditions. There's time at local markets in Dürnstein and Passau too.

You'll get a taste of authentic local life with a home-hosted coffee and cake visit with a Slovakian family in Bratislava, followed by an exclusive presentation at the Glass Art Museum in Wertheim. A traditional Bavarian band performs onboard while cruising through the Main-Danube Canal, and there's a Hungarian folklore show in Budapest.

Stay aboard the MS FIDELIO with full-board dining featuring regional specialties while docking overnight in Budapest and Bratislava. Walk through Bratislava's Old Town Hall and Hlavne Namestie Square with a local guide, then visit Melk's Baroque abbey library housing ancient manuscripts. Try authentic Hungarian culture at Budapest's Central Market Hall and relax in the city's historic thermal baths before you leave.

Life on the MS FIDELIO includes market visits at Budapest's Central Market Hall and wine tastings at family-run vineyards in Dürnstein. You'll walk through Bratislava's Old Town Hall and Hlavne Namestie Square, then have time to relax in Budapest's thermal baths or grab coffee at the historic New York Café. Guided walks take you along Vienna's Ringstrasse.