Top Baden-Württemberg Shore Excursions

Get more out of your trip to Heidelberg and explore the city with a local guide who brings his homeland to life with stories. The private tour can only be booked for your personal group of family and friends and the itinerary is entirely up to you. Possible routes include views of Speyer Cathedral and Schwetzingen Castle, but you can customize the tour to your liking. Note that entrance fees are not included.

On this private full day Tour, you will enjoy the most important tourist attractions in the "Kurpfalz" region in just 1 day. Besides magnificent Heidelberg with its romantic castle and beautiful baroque old town you can choose to see the Dr. Benz Museum, birthplace of the automobile and the worlds first car factory (if open, otherwise we stop in the picturesque middle age village of Ladenburg), or world famous Schwetzingen palace gardens (May to Oct.). In an easy and entertaining manner, you will learn a lot about the area’s history and spectacular sights. Lunch break (not included) will be in a typical, cozy German restaurant, offering local specialties as well as international or vegetarian cuisine. During the car ride your guide will supply lots of information about Germany in general and give you helpful advice for the continuation of your vacation. Your guide will be fluent in German and English also speaks "easy English" for guests who don´t speak English very well.

Baden-Württemberg not only produces the finest Pinot Noir’s but also revels in other varietals such as Grauburgunder, Weißburgunder, Muskateller, Gutedel and Chardonnay. On this remarkable wine tour you will taste the phenomenal difference’s between both Burgundian and the Baden-Württemberg Pinot Noir clones. Our first winery will be with the regions outstanding producer of Pinot Noir. His Spätburgunder wines regularly out-perform those of Burgundy, Oregon and others from around the world. We will taste several varietals including, Weissburgunder, Gutedel, Grauburgunder, Chardonnay, Merlot and Syrah. Located in the heart of the Achkarren dwells one of the most renowned family wineries. This winery will furnish us with an insight into both traditional and contempory wine-making practices. Finally we will head back down through the Kaiserstuhl vineyards which pepper the graceful terraces of this majestic dormant volcano and to our final winery of the day.

There’s a lot to see in Alsace, so leave the itinerary to an expert with this private wine tour from Basel. Offering a half- or full-day trip with a personal touch, the experience is planned around you, but typically includes visits to a selection of family-owned wineries in the Alsace or Baden-Württemberg regions. You’ll learn about viticulture, have time for questions, and, of course, taste prestigious wine as you go.

Many people don’t realize that a World War II-era concentration camp once stood on French soil—and without a guide to fill you in on crucial context, it can be hard to make sense of Natzweiler-Struthof Memorial's troubling history. On this private half-day tour, listen to explanations and understand Alsace’s unique position as it was annexed back and forth between France and Germany.