Bucket-List Cruise Adventure

12-Night Frankfurt am Main to Budapest Cruise Adventure

Avalon · Avalon Panorama · from Frankfurt am Main

$8,480 per person · next sails Dec 1, 2027 Book this cruise@ Cruisebound · same fare
Get there

Fly into Frankfurt am Main (FRA)

Your gateway to the voyage. Arrive a day or two early — the best of the trip starts before you board.

Open-jaw · fly into FRA, home from BUD · $1,260 for two est.
Your voyage · 12 nights, day by day

Day by day — the unforgettable thing at every port

Your whole sailing in order: the day you board, every port it calls — each with the single bucket-list experience there, the private, expert-led way, not the ship’s coach — any days at sea, and the day you step off.

Day 1
Frankfurt am Main Embark
Board in the afternoon — fly in at least a day early.
Days 2–3
Wurzburg
Würzburg Residenz · $10 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 4
Bamberg
Private Walking Tour · $304 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 5
Nuremberg
Private WWII History Tour · $230 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 6
This morning say goodbye to your Avalon Suite Ship and get ready to embark your second Avalon vessel which will take you to Budapest.<SPAN CLASS=classic>CLASSIC Enjoy a Guided City Tour which will show you the highlights of fascinating Munich. See Ny
⚙ Curating This morning say goodbye to your Avalon Suite Ship and get ready to embark your second Avalon vessel which will take you to Budapest.<SPAN CLASS=classic>CLASSIC Enjoy a Guided City Tour which will show you the highlights of fascinating Munich. See Ny’s bucket-list experience — check back shortly.
Day 7
Nuremberg
Private WWII History Tour · $230 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 8
Regensburg
Walhalla by Danube riverboat · $8 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 9
Passau
Three Rivers · $32 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Day 10
Frescoes Above and Vineyards Below<SPAN CLASS=classic>CLASSIC Take a Guided Tour of Melk’s magnificent Benedictine Abbey to marvel at its frescoed ceilings
⚙ Curating Frescoes Above and Vineyards Below<SPAN CLASS=classic>CLASSIC Take a Guided Tour of Melk’s magnificent Benedictine Abbey to marvel at its frescoed ceilings’s bucket-list experience — check back shortly.
Day 11
Vienna
Schönbrunn Palace · $82 for twohow to make it yours → ·
Days 12–13
Budapest Disembark
Disembark in the morning — or stay on for the days just below.
After you disembark

Bucket-list days near Budapest

You end in a different port — stay on, and add what’s within reach before you fly home.

133 mi from Budapest

Schloss Ambras

0 mi from Budapest

Széchenyi Thermal Bath

Home

Fly home from Budapest (BUD)

What this adventure runs estimated · for two
Your hotel
Flights open-jaw · fly into FRA, home from BUD · 2 travelers $1,260 est.
Hotel before you sail1 night · Frankfurt am Main · River~$217
Cruise fare12 nights · Avalon · 2 guests$16,960
Shore excursions7 bucket-list things, booked direct · for 2 · more as they curate · swap any at its port above ↑~$896
Transfersairport ↔ ship, private car~$180
Trip total$19,513
Flights are estimated from our best gateways (refine from your own airport above) — an open-jaw trip: out to the embark port, home from where you disembark; the cruise fare is this sailing’s lead-in price for two; the hotel scales with the style you pick above; shore excursions are real book-direct operator prices, added as each port is curated; transfers are an estimate. We always build in at least one night ashore before you sail.
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