Joy of Health Vacations

 PROGRAM INCLUDES

Accommodations

Services

*  Ground transfers to/from airport
*  Welcome orientation
*  Spa program orientation
*  Welcome packet with cultural and music events, restaurant guide, money exchange information, city and subway maps, city orientation.                            *  Spa tote bag
*  The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World, by Kati Marton                                         

Option 1. 3 Week Spa Therapy 

Spa Treatments
30-45 prescribed spa treatments
15-17 hot spring medicinal baths
2 physician consultations

 Option 2. 2 Week Spa Therapy

Meals
14 breakfasts
14 choices of lunches or dinners

Spa Treatments
20-30 prescribed spa treatments
10-15 hot spring medicinal baths
2 physician consultations

Option 3. 1 Week Wellness Program

 SAMPLE ITINERARY

Day 1
Welcome greeting on arrival.
Dinner at hotel.

Day 2
8am  Breakfast
9am  Spa orientation and review itinerary. Doctor’s appointment.
1pm  Lunch
2pm Optional:  Panorama Highlights Tour
7pm  On your own for dinner

Day 3
8am  Breakfast
9am Spa treatments and baths
1pm  Lunch at hotel
3pm Optional:  Budapest Highlights Walking Tour
7pm Optional:: Dinner & performance
            Liszt Academy, Liszt Square

Day 4
8am Breakfast
9am  Spa treatments and baths
1 pm  Lunch in Pest
2pm  Relax and explore Margaret Island
7pm  Optional:  Dinner and Danube cruise with Operetta performance

Day 5
8am  Breakfast
9am Spa treatments and baths
1pm  Lunch and explore the Castle District on your own
7pm  Dinner at hotel with Roma music (Thursdays)

Day 6
8 am Breakfast
9am  Optional: All day excursion in Eger, with lunch and wine-tasting
7pm  Dinner at hotel in Budapest

OPTIONAL TOURS

Panorama highlights: Gellert Hill, Andrassy Boulevard, Bathouses, Central Market, the Opera, House of Terror, Heroes' Square, City Park, Great Synagogue, St. Stephen's Basilica, Paeliament, Castle district with Royal Palace, Matthias church and Fishermen's Bastion, Chain Bridge, and the major museums.  3-hour car tour, short stops 125. EU 4-hour car car tour with walks 145 EU

City highlights plus delightful details, quiet courtyards, and ride the oldest subway on the continent.   4-hour walking tour 105 EU

Go back in time when communists seized power, the 1956 Revolution, the "Change" in 1989 and its consequences. Sites include Statue Park, a district of communist block of flats, the House of Terror. 4-hour car tour 140 EU.

Visit the Budapest Opera and Operetta. Art Nouveau, Hungarian Secessionist style Liszt Music Academy, musicians' homes and statues.  Ask about concerts. 4-hour car tour 140 EU.
 

Excursions Outside Budapest 

A picturesque artists' colony with a Mediterranean feel, winding lanes, cafés, galleries. Serbian Orthodox Churches, Ceramic Museum. Shop for arts, crafts, handmade clothing and leather goods. Return by boat! 4-hour car tour 140 EU.

One hour riding show at Equestrian Park. Visit the Hall of Champions, Stables, Hall of Hunters. 6 hour tour includes royal town and Horse show: 166 EU.

An open-air Village Museum recreating life in Hungary's regions, many buildings dismantled and rebuilt here. Highlights include the Tisza Region, Great Plain, Western Transdanubia. Return by boat!  6-hour car tour 160 EU.

Walking tour of Szentendre as above. Visegrad is a riverside village with a beautiful view of the Danube Bend. Medieval hilltop palace, residence of Hungarian kings. King Matthias' Renaissance Palace. 6-hour car tour 160 EU.

A 1000-year old baroque town. Visit the Castle, Classicist Cathedral,Turkish minaret, a Baroque Lyceum, Observatory, County Hall, Dobó Istvan square, and wine tasting in the Valley of the Beautiful Lady. All day excursion 195 EU

An ancient Roman settlement, an atmospheric center, Baroque architecture, at the confluence of three rivers. Visit Bishop's Cathedral, art collections, Pannonhalma Benedictine Abbey, a World Heritage site. All-day car tour 215 EU.