Final-year school trip to Budapest: Parliament, the Castle District, the Széchenyi Baths and Szentendre (7 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and drive to Bavaria

• Departure from your school early in the morning, at the agreed time, and daytime drive to Germany (about 550 to 700 km, i.e. 7 to 8.5 hours excluding breaks depending on the departure point).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Two drivers take turns at the wheel; lunch at your own expense at a motorway service area.
• Overnight stop in the Nuremberg or Regensburg area, dinner and a quiet evening.

Day 2: Drive to Budapest

• Departure after breakfast, around 7 am, and daytime drive through Austria (about 650 to 750 km, i.e. 8 to 9 hours excluding breaks).
• Two drivers take turns, with regular breaks; lunch at your own expense on the way.
• Arrival in Budapest in the early evening and a first glimpse of the Danube.
• Check-in at the accommodation for four nights, dinner and a quiet evening.

Day 3: Buda and the Danube

• Walk through Buda’s Castle District, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and along the terraces of the Fisherman’s Bastion.
• Visit to Matthias Church, with its colourful tiled roofs (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense, then a coach ride up Gellért Hill for the panorama over the bridges and the city.
• Across the Chain Bridge and along the Danube promenade on the Pest side.
• Dinner and supervised evening, with a night cruise on the illuminated Danube (on request).

Day 4: Pest, from Parliament to Heroes’ Square

• Guided tour of the Hungarian Parliament and the Holy Crown of St Stephen (on request).
• The Shoes on the Danube Bank, a memorial to the Jewish victims shot in 1944–1945.
• Visit to St Stephen’s Basilica and climb to its dome (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense, then Andrássy Avenue up to Heroes’ Square and City Park, with its open-air Széchenyi Baths (on request).
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 5: 20th-century memory and Szentendre

• Visit to the House of Terror, devoted to the Nazi and communist dictatorships in Hungary (on request).
• Visit to the Great Synagogue on Dohány Street, the largest in Europe (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense at the Great Market Hall, the place to try a lángos.
• Afternoon in Szentendre (about 20 km), a small artists’ town on the Danube.
• Dinner and a last supervised evening.

Day 6: Drive to the overnight stop

• Rooms vacated after breakfast and departure around 8 am.
• Daytime drive through Austria to Germany (about 650 to 750 km), with two drivers taking turns.
• Lunch at your own expense on the way.
• Overnight stop in the Regensburg or Nuremberg area, dinner and a quiet evening.

Day 7: Return to Belgium

• Departure after breakfast, around 8 am.
• Daytime drive back to Belgium (about 550 to 700 km), with two drivers taking turns and regular breaks.
• Lunch at your own expense on the way.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.