
Seeing The Christmas Markets
Christmas Market Tours can be experienced by river cruising or on land. Many of our tour operators offer Christmas Market Tours. Christmas on the Danube is the most popular Christmas Market Tour. Collette Vacations features a 6 night Danube River Cruise starting in Wurzburg, Germany with a walking tour of the city and a motor coach to Rothenberg before boarding the river cruise boat in Nuremberg. The ship will make stops in Regensburg, Passau, the Wachau Valley, Durnstein and Vienna in Austria. A shore excursion is offered in each port at no additional charge before disembarking in Vienna.
The Classic Christmas Market Land Tour Collette Vacations offers starts in Zurich and ends in Munich with sightseeing in the Black Forest, Wurzburg, Nuremberg, Rothenberg including the Neuschwanstein Castle and Oberammergau. While in Oberammergau, a visit to Innsbruck is included. Another interesting experience Collette offers is a Christmas Market Tour staying in Innsbruck for 5 nights and taking day trips to Salzburg, Munich, Oberammergau and Neuschwanstein Castle.
Insight Vacations offers Christmas Market Land Tours in Germany, Poland, Prague, Austria and Bavaria. Alpine Christmas Markets is a 10 day tour starting in Munich and ending in Zurich with stops in Salzburg, Innsbruck, the Black Forest, Freiburg, Strasbourg and Alsace. Their Christmas Markets of Germany is a 9 day regional tour stopping in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Nuremberg, Rothenberg and Munich. Christmas Markets of Poland, Prague and Germany starts in Krakow and visits Wroclaw, the Venice of Poland, then on to Kutna Hora and Prague before viewing the German cities of Dresden and Berlin. Christmas Markets of Austria and Bavaria begins in Vienna and ends in Munich with Salzburg, Innsbruck, through the German Alps to Oberammergau, and Neuschwanstein.
Trafalgar has 3 Christmas "Spectaculars" this year with a 10 day Christmas Markets Tour of Strasbourg and the Black Forest, the German Christmas Markets and Christmas Markets of Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Let's not leave out Avalon Waterways festive season offerings. They have a 5 day Christmastime in Alsace and Germany, an 8 day Christmas in the Heart of Germany and the ever time popular Christmastime on the Danube for 9 days from Vienna to Prague.
No matter what Christmas Market Tour you choose, you will be in awe of the local craftsmen displaying their unique offerings to make unusual Christmas gifts.