Danube Bend Day Tour: Explore Scenic Riverside, Visegrád, Esztergom & Szentendre with Cruise
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53 Ratings
Esztergom
Experience the beauty of the Danube Bend on a day tour. Visit Esztergom, the center of the Catholic Church, and explore the medieval fortress in Visegrád. Enjoy a delicious lunch with a panoramic view and stroll through the charming artist's village of Szentendre. End the tour with a scenic boat cruise along the Danube.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Esztergom Basilica / Cathedral - The Esztergom Basilica is the largest church and building in Hungary. The church is breathtaking inside and out. For a small fee, climbing to the top of the dome gives you a beautiful panoramic view of the countryside!
- Visegrad Citadel - Visegrad, in the vicinity of Budapest, is famous for the remains of the Renaissance summer residence of King Matthias. Here we visit the sights as a one hour long guided tour.
- Szentendrei Duna-part - You will get a great walking tour in this small charming town with a special Mediterranean atmosphere, nice location on the river bank. It is also called as the city of artists.
- Danube River - Admire the sights along the way returning back to Budapest on a one hour long cruise (not private) on the Danube.
What's Included
- 70-minute Danube River cruise in Budapest (Available 30 April-17 Sept, except Wednesdays and Fridays)
- Complimentary hotel pickup and drop-off
- Knowledgeable local guide
- Inclusive of lunch
- Leave the city behind for a river cruise back from Szentendre with the same operation dates as Budapest cruise
- Travel comfortably in a private air-conditioned minivan or car
- Included entrance fees to Visegrad Castle and Esztergom Basilica
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
Additional Information
The curvaceous Danube Bend is a region full of picturesque riverside landscapes, perfect for addressing your wanderlust with day-long trips. Make your journey enriching by exploring the vibrant ‘Blue Danube’, stopping at diverse landmarks such as Visegrád, Esztergom, and Szentendre.
Esztergom: It’s the heart of the Catholic Church. Come, let’s venture inside Hungary’s largest cathedral.
Visegrád: We’ll ascend to the hill’s summit for soaking in the breathtaking overlook of the Danube valley. You can spend some leisure time exploring the town’s main allure, the age-old fortress. The visit will be followed by a fulfilling, three-course meal (with drinks) served in a view-blessed traditional restaurant.
Our next stop is the artistic hub, the village of Szentendre. Traverse the baroque settlement, enjoy an intimate stroll along the quaint narrow lanes leading to the Danube. Utilize your spare time exploring museums or hunting for keepsakes.
Relax and appreciate the scenery during a return boat cruise from Szentendre (available from 30 April - 17 September annually, excluding Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays).
The adventure wraps up at your hotel.
- Comfortable walking shoes are recommended
- We are serious about taking extra precautions to stop the spread of this virus by practicing regular hand washing and sanitization, we regularly sanitize and clean our equipment and work areas, we make hand sanitizer readily available to our guests and team members, and practice social distancing measures through providing private tours and private transfers.We will check the health of employees every day, wear masks and thoroughly disinfect our hands, equipment, vehicles and changing areas.
Location
Esztergom Basilica / Cathedral
Castle Hill, Szt. István tér
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.4
(53 Ratings)
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Eary_w
Sep 5, 2023
Fantastic day away from the city - Our guide for this tour was Susanne (Zsuzsa) and she was EXCELLENT. Her knowledge of history, culture, economics, religion, architecture, and geopolitics was impressive and was reflective of her lengthy experience as a tour guide. She also has extensive knowledge of the U.S. (and idiomatic English) which made her aware of how we view things which made the tour a conversation rather than a lecture. It would be too easy to spend an entire vacation in Budapest so we turned to this tour as a forcing mechanism to see some of the countryside. Szentendre appears to have a hard bend toward tourists, which is great for souvenir shopping. However, if you venture away from the main street you'll begin to see that it has more to offer. The key for us was the river cruise back to Budapest. There's the obvious romanticism behind sailing / steaming down the Danube, but it is also a great way to get a different perspective of the city. This was a day well spent and we can't thank Susanne enough for her time, energy, and attentiveness.
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Larry_g
Jul 26, 2023
Best Budapest Day Trip - The best part of the tour was spending the day with our tour guide Steve. He is an excellent guide and a really nice and patient person. He gave us great insight into both historical and modern day Hungary.
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Busker19
Jul 14, 2023
Beautiful scenery, excellent tour - What a wonderful tour. Full of beautiful scenery, history and such varied sights. Everything was so well organised by Susanna in the office with whom I corresponded beforehand.
Our guide, Susan, was very experienced, knowledgeable and extremely personable. She ensured that everything went to plan, that we had plenty of information about each venue and that we were also given time to explore/take photos in our own time.
After a delicious lunch and time for shopping/sightseeing in Szentendre, we took the ferry back to Budapest, a peaceful journey along the river Danube.
This was a trip that we will remember for a long time. Excellent.
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Journey66816
Jun 30, 2023
A beautiful day in the Hungarian countryside with a fantastic guide - This was our second private tour we took while in Budapest (see separate review of “4 hour first class private tour of Budapest”). We were fortunate to also have the same excellent driver/guide, Steve, for this tour as well. This was an all day out of Budapest “Danube Bend” tour. I didn’t know what to expect but we ended up visiting historical castles, cathedrals and other sites, some dating back nearly 1000 years. Parts of the Danube River serve as the boundary between Hungary and Slovakia. At one point we visited a bridge joining the two countries which was pretty cool. The tour was fairly physical climbing up and down steps and oaths to get to some of the historical sites but the exertion was well worth it at each site. We had some incredible views of the Danube as it wound its way through the Hungarian countryside. We stopped in an artist village for a simple but tasty three course lunch. When we returned to Budapest Steve was flexible and took us to revisit a shop near Buda castle to secure a gift at a shop we had seen the day before. Throughout the tour our guide was informative, fun, helpful and interesting. At the end of the day we were given a voucher for a 90 minute Danube River cruise through Budapest. That tour was very relaxing and a fun way to finish the day. Overall, a fantastic private tour with a truly wonderful guide, Steve. Highly recommend.
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Kirk_l
Jun 10, 2023
Danube River Bend Tour - Thomas was a knowledgeable and engaging guide for the day. Had a great time on this private tour.
Highly recommend.
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Paradocs21
Oct 15, 2023
Our Danube Bend cruise by car - I was informed that the regular cruise was not going because we were too late in the season. But as an alternative, I was offered a smaller boat that would take us on the same Danube Bend route at the same time. This was not what we got. Instead, we were taken by car to the monuments and villages along the Danube Bend. Our tour guide was great, but we weren't on the River.
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Nancy_p
Sep 3, 2023
Great Guide - - The all day tour was over-priced, in our opinion. The tour guide was fantastic, but the car we were driven in was small and not great for a full day of touring. I think this tour could be cut in half, with only a visit to the local village. The lunch was ok - the entree was very dry, over-cooked chicken. We skipped the cruise back as there is really not too much to see along the river, until you get to Budapest. The cruise would have been one hour. Again, the best part of this tour was Tibi, our guide. The itinerary and restaurant should be adjusted by the local tour organizers.
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Lucinda_c
May 14, 2023
Not as advertised, no cruise back - We expected a Danube cruise back after a car ride to destination. Told that there’s not been a cruise back since Covid and it is still being advertised! We got a local river ride after we drove all the way back to Budapest! This did not make up for the discrepancy.
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Irene_r
Sep 11, 2023
Don’t waste your money on this one - I’m a big Viator fan - this is my first ever negative review. This tour was an overpriced ripoff. We paid almost twice the ‘starting from’ price advertised, which made this quite expensive. Not clear why. But ok - I figured the experience will be worth it. Nope - tour started with the guide saying that we pretty much won’t see anything at the first stop since it’s under major renovation and most things are scaffolded or covered. Why is it on the tour then?? She also told us that the ‘good’ cruise doesn’t run on Mondays; I knew that but figured there would be an equitable substitute. Nope, we were offered the standard 15 euro cattle call city cruise that everyone does downtown (and that we had done the day before) - nothing private or special about it. We did enjoy the Visegrad ruins, that part was cool. The final stop was an ok lunch in a completely unmemorable town that was billed as a picturesque shopping opportunity (it wasn’t). On the whole I would’ve been ok with this trip if it wasn’t so ludicrously overpriced. For what we paid I would’ve e expected a good bit more.
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Mohinder_g
Sep 29, 2023
Didn’t like it. - Terrible experience. Driver didn’t give correct information as what he is going to cover. We found out later that cruise is not
availability that day. Once we called the number on voucher, operator mentioned
don’t worry we will give you cruise from city center. Lunch offered was very uncourtious and did not like it at all. It looked like waste of time and money.
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