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The best train tours in Germany
263 hotel-based trips in Germany had enough verified data to score; hostel and self-guided rail-pass trips are not ranked here. The ranking below is fully mechanical; here is exactly how it works:
- Eligibility: only hotel-based tours are ranked. Trips built around hostels or self-arranged accommodation are left out, since these guides recommend hotel-inclusive tours for the general traveller.
- Rail share (35%): the percent of the trip actually on trains, from the itinerary.
- Value (20%): price per day against the other hotel-based trips on this page (cheaper per day scores higher).
- Data completeness (25%): full day-by-day itinerary, imagery, inclusions, and verified price.
- Departure breadth (20%): how many months the operator publishes departures for.
Eight-day self-guided rail loop from London through Frankfurt, Dresden, and the Rhineland.
- Rail share
- 75
- Value
- 89
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 50
8 days · from $1,205 ($151/day)
Twelve-day rail loop London to Vienna via Berlin, Krakow and Budapest
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 92
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
12 days · from $1,674 ($140/day)
Eight-day train journey through Rhine and Moselle Valleys from London to Cologne
- Rail share
- 95
- Value
- 89
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
8 days · from $1,205 ($151/day)
London to Paris via Alps and Tuscany on nine named trains
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 80
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
11 days · from $2,009 ($183/day)
Twelve-day escorted rail journey through Vienna, Budapest, Prague and Berlin.
- Rail share
- 65
- Value
- 40
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 100
12 days · from $3,483 ($290/day)
22-day independent rail tour from Stuttgart to Zurich through Italy
- Rail share
- 95
- Value
- 82
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
22 days · from $3,885 ($177/day)
15-day self-guided rail loop through Germany, Austria, Czech Republic
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 73
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
15 days · from $2,959 ($197/day)
14-day London to Kraków rail journey through German and Polish WW2 and post-war history
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 70
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
14 days · from $2,821 ($202/day)
High-speed rail circle through six German cities from Frankfurt
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 68
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
8 days · from $1,639 ($205/day)
Self-guided rail journey through six Eastern European capitals tracing the 1989 fall of the
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 93
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
17 days · from $2,344 ($138/day)