Local Living Tours & Trips in Vienna Budapest Prague

This 7-day trip takes you through Vienna, Budapest, and Prague with some great cultural stops along the way. Have dinner in Vienna's Grinzing district, where locals hang out in traditional wine taverns, and take a Danube cruise in Budapest that goes past Buda's medieval castle and Pest's grand boulevards.

A local host invites you into their home for dinner in Rome, where you'll have regional dishes and wine while getting a real taste of Italian family hospitality. In Paris, walk through the pedestrianized Montorgueil district with a resident who'll take you to neighborhood boulangeries and patisseries.

Head to Amsterdam's Albert Cuyp Market by bike and try raw herring and poffertjes, then make stroopwafels in a hands-on workshop. Later in Tirana, check out the communist-era Blloku neighborhood and sip raki at Komiteti Kafe Muzeum. You'll also cook traditional pasta in Rome and taste regional foods at Provence's countryside markets.

Try authentic coffee culture at traditional Viennese cafés in the Grätzls neighbourhood, learning about local favorites from residents who know the hidden spots. Meet multigenerational bakers at Vollpension café, where grandmothers and grandfathers share homemade recipes and stories with visitors.

Watch folklore dancers during a traditional Czech dinner in Prague, sample homemade pierogi dumplings in Kraków's historic center, and join a pasta-making class in Rome on this 16-day trip through Vienna, Budapest, and Prague, staying in hostels and boutique hotels with thermal bath time at Budapest's Széchenyi Baths.

Get into local culture through a traditional Hungarian folklore performance in Budapest and home-hosted coffee with a Slovakian family in Bratislava's historic center. The trip includes time in Miltenberg's colorful half-timbered houses and artisan demonstrations at Wertheim's Glass Art Museum.

Spend time in Vienna's café culture while seeing the Kunsthistorisches Museum's artistic treasures and wandering the city's elegant boulevards, then learn traditional German baking by crafting Lebkuchen gingerbread with a local chef in Nuremberg's medieval Old Town.

Local life in Prague's Old Town Square includes an included Vltava River boat ride, then you'll head to Vienna's Grinzing wine village with its traditional taverns and stay at Rainers Hotel Vienna. A Danube River cruise in Budapest gives you views of historic Buda and cosmopolitan Pest, and you can check out the lively Váci utca area for authentic lunch. The trip takes you through Salzburg's Renaissance center, St. Wolfgang's pilgrimage site, and includes a Traunsee Lake cruise from Traunkirchen that passes four castles.