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Nine nights across five European capitals with return flights from London and 4★ accommodation. The highlights recorded against this tour name the Eiffel Tower, the Amsterdam canals, the Berlin Wall, Charles Bridge and Schönbrunn Palace — so Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Vienna. ATOL protection under licence 10713 applies and a £99 per person deposit holds it. January is the cheapest month and July the dearest. The night split, the hotels, the transport between cities and the board arrangement are all confirmed in writing before you pay.
Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Vienna — five capitals in nine nights.
The landmarks the tour is built around are the Eiffel Tower, the Amsterdam canals, the Berlin Wall, Charles Bridge and Schönbrunn Palace — one in each city. The hotels, the night split across the five, the transport between them and your meal arrangement are all set with you and confirmed in writing before you pay.
All of that is confirmed in writing before you pay anything beyond the deposit. On a five-city tour the transport question is the one to ask first — rail and air give you very different days, and nine nights across five capitals leaves little slack either way.
What is not in doubt: five capitals, nine nights, 4★ accommodation, return flights from London and ATOL 10713 protection.
It is a fast tour, and it is worth being honest about what that means.
Nine nights across five cities averages under two nights each, and travel days eat into that. This is a survey of Europe rather than an acquaintance with any one of these cities — you will see the landmark, walk a centre, eat two or three good meals and move on.
For some travellers that is exactly right. A first trip to Europe, or a reconnaissance to work out where to come back to properly, is well served by this. Five capitals in nine nights is a genuinely efficient way to find out which one you love.
For others it will be too much. If you would rather know one city than glimpse five, our 12-night Ultimate Italy Tour covers four cities in twelve nights from £799 — a considerably gentler pace, and cheaper.
January if price decides, May or October if conditions do — and on this itinerary January is a serious answer rather than a compromise.
All five of these are year-round working capitals. None closes for the winter. The Louvre, the Rijksmuseum, Berlin’s museums, Prague’s castle and Schönbrunn are indoors or queued for outside, and in winter those queues largely disappear.
| Month | Worth knowing |
|---|---|
| January 2027 | Cheapest; cold, but museums empty |
| November | Mild, quiet, good value |
| February 2027 | Cold, still very quiet |
| December | Christmas markets in all five |
| October | Autumn colour, comfortable walking |
| May | Warm, long days, before the crowds |
| September | Warm and easing off |
| June | Long days, filling up |
| August | Hot and busy across all five |
| July | Dearest, hottest, busiest |
May is the best month for a tour with this much walking in it — long daylight, warm but not hot, and the crowds not yet at summer levels. October is cheaper and nearly as good.
December is the interesting one. All five of these cities run Christmas markets, and Vienna and Prague in particular are among the best in Europe for them. A December tour of these capitals is a different holiday rather than a worse one.
Paris is the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre-Dame and the Seine, and it is the one of the five that most obviously needs more time than this tour gives it.
Amsterdam is the canal ring, the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum, and the Anne Frank House, which sells timed tickets well in advance.
Berlin is the most modern-historical of the five — the Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, the Holocaust Memorial, Museum Island. It is also the least conventionally pretty and the most interesting to many visitors for exactly that reason.
Prague is the best-preserved medieval centre in Europe: the castle, Charles Bridge and the Old Town Square. It is also the most crowded per square metre of the five.
Vienna is imperial — Schönbrunn, the Hofburg, the Ringstrasse, and a coffee-house culture that is a genuine institution rather than a tourist line.
The five together make an argument. Prague gives you medieval Europe, Vienna the Habsburg empire, Paris the nineteenth century at its grandest, Berlin the twentieth at its most brutal, and Amsterdam a merchant republic that predates all of it. Seen in one trip, the sequence is the point rather than any single stop.
Eating varies more than you would expect. Viennese coffee houses and Amsterdam’s brown cafés are institutions in their own right, Berlin is the most international of the five, and Prague is by some distance the cheapest place to eat and drink on the itinerary.
One practical warning about a five-city tour: the cities are the easy part and the transitions are what tire people out. Check-out, travel, check-in and finding your feet again takes most of a day each time, four times over. Build one deliberately slow day into the middle of the trip and you will enjoy the rest of it more.
The other thing worth planning is laundry. Nine nights with hand luggage across five hotels means either packing more than you can comfortably carry or using a hotel service once — and the second is cheaper than the first is tiring.
All quoted at enquiry against your dates.
Flights are from London, with regional UK airports at a supplement confirmed at enquiry. All five of these capitals are within roughly one to two and a half hours’ flying time of the UK.
Transport between the cities is confirmed in writing before you pay, and it is the detail that most shapes the tour. Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Vienna are all connected by rail, and several of those sectors are comfortable daytime journeys. Others are better flown.
France, the Netherlands, Germany, Czechia and Austria are all one hour ahead of the UK, so there is no time change at any point inside this tour.
Checked against GOV.UK foreign travel advice on 17 September 2026.
All five countries on this tour are in the Schengen area, so British passport holders need no visa for stays of up to 90 days in any 180-day period, and there is no separate border check between them once you are inside. Your passport must have been issued within the last 10 years of your arrival date and be valid at least three months after you leave. A passport renewed early before October 2018 may carry months that no longer count.
The EU’s biometric Entry/Exit System is rolling out, replacing passport stamps with fingerprints and a photograph on your first crossing. It is free, lasts three years and speeds up later trips. ETIAS is not currently required.
You pay a city tourist tax five times on this tour, at five different rates, each payable at the hotel rather than in the package price.
Two currencies. Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna use the euro; Prague uses the Czech koruna. Avoid the airport and tourist-street exchange desks in Prague, which are consistently poor value.
Book the timed entries early. The Anne Frank House in particular sells out well in advance, and the Louvre and Schönbrunn both reward a booked slot.
Pack light and pack once. Five hotels in nine nights is a great deal of luggage handling, and several of these cities have cobbled centres that suit a small case far better than a large one.
Prague is the most crowded. Charles Bridge and the Old Town Square are genuinely packed through most of the day; early morning is a different city.
Sunday closing varies sharply. Germany and Austria close their shops on Sundays almost completely, while Paris, Amsterdam and Prague are far more relaxed about it. Museums and restaurants stay open throughout; it is retail that stops.
Public transport is excellent in all five and none of it is included. Day or multi-day travelcards are usually far better value than single tickets, and every one of these cities enforces ticketing with spot checks rather than barriers.
Your booking is covered by our ATOL licence 10713 and we hold IATA accreditation 91285611. It is held with a deposit of £99 per person, with the balance due before travel.
Prices are per person, based on two people sharing. May is the best month for the amount of walking involved, October is nearly as good for less, and December buys a genuine Christmas-market tour of five capitals. Ask us to confirm the night split and the inter-city transport in writing when you enquire.
From £1,049 per person, reduced from £1,340, for nine nights across five capitals with return London flights and 4★ accommodation. January is the cheapest time to travel and July the dearest, with the shoulder months either side offering the best balance.
Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Vienna — five capitals in nine nights, built around one landmark in each: the Eiffel Tower, the Amsterdam canals, the Berlin Wall, Charles Bridge and Schönbrunn Palace.
We set the split with you rather than fixing it in advance — that is how a tailor-made itinerary works. Tell us your priorities when you enquire and we will confirm the exact plan in writing before you pay.
That is confirmed at enquiry and it is the question worth asking first, because rail and air give you very different days. All five capitals are connected by rail and several of those sectors are comfortable daytime journeys; others are better flown.
It is a fast tour — under two nights each once travel days are counted. This is a survey of Europe rather than an acquaintance with any one city. For a first trip, or to work out where to return to properly, that is exactly right.
The package uses 4★ hotels throughout and we confirm the exact properties in writing before you pay. On stays this short, a central location matters more than usual.
Your meal arrangement is confirmed in writing before you pay, across all five cities. Tell us what you would like when you enquire — on a tour moving this quickly, breakfast included at every stop saves a decision each morning.
May for a tour with this much walking — long daylight, warm but not hot, crowds not yet at summer levels. October is cheaper and nearly as good. January is cheapest and the museums are empty.
No. All five are year-round working capitals and none closes. The Louvre, the Rijksmuseum, Berlin's museums, Prague Castle and Schönbrunn are indoors or queued for outside, and in winter those queues largely disappear. Pack for cold.
December buys a genuine Christmas-market tour. All five cities run them and Vienna and Prague in particular are among the best in Europe. It is a different holiday from the summer version rather than a worse one.
No. All five countries are in the Schengen area, so British passport holders can stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period with no separate border check between them. Your passport must have been issued within the last 10 years and be valid three months after you leave.
None inside the tour. France, the Netherlands, Germany, Czechia and Austria are all one hour ahead of the UK, so your watch changes once on the way out and once on the way home and not at all in between.
Two. Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna use the euro; Prague uses the Czech koruna. Avoid the airport and tourist-street exchange desks in Prague — they are consistently poor value and the rates are worse than they first appear.
Yes, and you pay it five times on this tour, at five different rates. Each is charged per person per night at the hotel and payable locally rather than included in the package price.
As little as you can manage. Five hotels in nine nights is a great deal of luggage handling, and several of these cities have cobbled centres where a small case is far easier than a large one. Pack once and pack light.
Paris, without much argument. It is the one of the five that most obviously needs more than this tour gives it. If you are adding a night anywhere, add it there — though Vienna and Berlin both reward extra time too.
It is the most crowded of the five per square metre. Charles Bridge and the Old Town Square are genuinely packed through most of the day. Early morning is a completely different city and worth setting an alarm for.
For some, yes. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam sells out well in advance and is the one most people miss. The Louvre and Schönbrunn both reward a booked slot. None of it is included in the package price.
A different pace entirely. This is five capitals in nine nights. Our 12-night Ultimate Italy Tour covers four cities in twelve nights from £799 — gentler, cheaper and deeper, but one country rather than five.
It is one of the better ways to do one. Five capitals covering medieval, imperial and twentieth-century Europe gives you breadth quickly, and tells you which of them you want to come back to and spend a week in.
Ninety-nine pounds per person, with the balance due before travel. The holiday is ATOL 10713 protected and we hold IATA accreditation 91285611. Prices are per person, based on two people sharing.
Earlier than a single-city break, because five hotels and four inter-city connections all have to line up. Ask us to confirm the itinerary in writing at the same time.
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