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The best train tours in Germany
234 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 estimated share of itinerary days with a train leg (a share of days, not distance or time); trips not assessed are not ranked.
- 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.
Twelve-day rail loop London to Vienna via Berlin, Krakow and Budapest
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 93
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
12 days · from $1,687 ($141/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 $1,214 ($152/day)
London to Paris via Alps and Tuscany on nine named trains
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 80
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
11 days · from $2,025 ($184/day)
Eight-day self-guided rail loop from London through Frankfurt, Dresden, and the Rhineland.
- Rail share
- 75
- Value
- 67
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 50
8 days · from $1,687 ($211/day)
22-day independent rail tour from Stuttgart to Zurich through Italy
- Rail share
- 95
- Value
- 82
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
22 days · from $3,916 ($178/day)
London to Berlin by Eurostar and ICE train, four days with three nights in
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 72
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
4 days · from $809 ($202/day)
14-day London to Kraków rail journey through German and Polish WW2 and post-war history
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 71
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
14 days · from $2,843 ($203/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 $2,363 ($139/day)
Eleven-day rail journey from London to Istanbul via Munich, Budapest, Bucharest, and Sofia.
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 91
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
11 days · from $1,620 ($147/day)
Self-guided rail journey through 11 European cities in 29 days
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 90
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
29 days · from $4,321 ($149/day)