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Everything in Luxembourg City is fifteen minutes away.
The capital is a plateau, a gorge and a fortress stacked on top of each other, and you can walk all three before lunch. These are the days most visitors build a trip around.
The old town of Luxembourg walks in two hours.
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From Place d’Armes it is ten minutes to the Chemin de la Corniche, the balcony the writers called the most beautiful in Europe, and another ten down the lift into the Grund. Three ways to do it, at three very different prices.
Highlights walk, guided in English
Palace guard, cathedral, the Corniche and the Bock in one loop, at a price that reads like a misprint because the guide works on tips.
The same streets, played as a hunt
A phone, a set of riddles and no guide waiting on you. Good for a first evening, and the only version that works on a Sunday morning.
A private guide for two hours
Priced per group rather than per head, so it turns cheap the moment there are six of you. The route bends to whatever you actually want to see.
Luxembourg’s most popular days out, starting with a $2 walk.
Every review →What visitors here actually book: a tip-based walk, an audio bus that climbs the plateau, and one full day out to the castles.
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Luxembourg Highlights: Walking Tour in English
A 2-hour English walking tour in Luxembourg with expert guides, smart stories about monarchy and city life, and a low 2€ entry with tipping.
From · $2
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City Bus Tour with Audio Guide and Headphones
from $29
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Nature, History and Castles Full-Day Tour
from $135
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Walking Tour with Optional Wine Tastings
from $29
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The Best of Guided E-Bike Tour in 3 Hours
from $89
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Guided Walking Tour with Cultural Insights
from $0
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Tip-Based Luxembourg Walking Tour in English
from $3
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Luxembourg city walking and wine tasting tour
from $42
Past the Bock, the country starts immediately.
The grand duchy is 82 kilometres top to bottom. Castles in the north, sandstone canyons in the east, vineyards on the German border, and three countries within an hour of the ring road.
The castles of the north
- 1Nature, History and Castles Full-Day Tourfrom $135
- 2Nature & Castle Day Tripfrom $137
- 3Discover Vianden: A Private Walking Experiencefrom $338
Little Switzerland and the river valleys
- 1Nature, History and Castles Full-Day Tourfrom $135
- 2Nature & Castle Day Tripfrom $137
- 3Luxembourg 1-day private guided country tourfrom $694
Over the border and back
- 1From Brussels: Luxembourg and Dinant Full-Day Private Tourfrom $706
- 2Schengen Wine Heritage and Beaufort Castle Private Tourfrom $931
- 3Best Of Luxembourg and Dinant Private Tour from Brusselsfrom $882
Luxembourg City hides its best corners behind a riddle.
The old town is compact enough that a puzzle route can cover it properly: the casemate windows, the courtyards off Rue de la Loge, the lift down to the Grund. No guide, no fixed start time, and it works in the rain.
Seven museums on one pass, and the Casemates underneath them.
Mudam was built into the remains of Fort Thüngen on the Kirchberg; the Pétrusse Casemates are cut into the cliff on the other side of the valley, below Place de la Constitution. A museum day here runs half indoors and half inside the rock. The combined pass pays for itself on a second night.
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Luxembourg is expensive. Its best walk costs $2.
Every tour on the site by price. The gap between the bands is wider here than almost anywhere: tip-based walks at the bottom, private cars with a driver at the top.
Tip-based walks, the city train, museum tickets and the self-guided hunts. Most of the old town sits in this band.
Guided e-bike loops, food tours with tastings, the vintage-bus dinners and the full-day run to the castles.
Almost all of these are priced per group, not per head — a private guide or a car and driver for the day. Split four ways they stop looking wild.
Three things the grand duchy has that its neighbours do not.
Castles and old towns are everywhere along this border. A wine village that gave its name to open frontiers, a dinner service running on a converted bus, and the ground the Battle of the Bulge was fought over are Luxembourg’s alone.
Schengen and the Moselle
Schengen is a village of some 500 people on the Moselle, and the agreement was signed on a boat moored off it in 1985 because the river met three countries at that point. The vineyards run up the slope behind it: Riesling, Auxerrois, Pinot Gris and a great deal of crémant. Most tastings you can book start with a walk in the capital and finish on the river.
- 1Walking Tour with Optional Wine Tastings★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 422 reviews
- 2Luxembourg city walking and wine tasting tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 122 reviews
- 3Luxembourg Wine Tasting Experience in Echternach★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 8 reviews
The vintage bus
A converted bus circles the capital while dinner is served on board, which sounds like a novelty and turns out to be the easiest way to see the plateau lit up. Three menus run on rotation — American, Italian and a longer gourmet service — and the route takes in the Adolphe Bridge and the Kirchberg towers between courses.
- 1American-Style Dinner in a Vintage Bus★★★★★★★★★★ 3.2 · 4 reviews
- 2Italian-Style Dinner in a Vintage Bus★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 3 reviews
- 3Gourmet Food Dinner in a Vintage Bus★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1 reviews
The Ardennes
The Battle of the Bulge was fought across the north of the country in deep snow, and the ground has not changed much: the foxholes above Wiltz, the church at Clervaux, the museum in Diekirch. The American cemetery at Hamm, ten minutes from the capital, holds more than 5,000 graves including Patton’s. Tours here run small and slow.
- 1WWII Battlefields and Castles Private Tour in Luxembourg★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3 reviews
- 2WWII Battlefields & Castles Private Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 2 reviews
- 3Luxembourg & Belgium 1-day private guided World War 2 tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1 reviews
When it rains in Luxembourg, go inside the rock.
The weather here comes in off the Atlantic and settles for days. The answer is underground: some 17 kilometres of casemates still run through the sandstone under the city, and the Bock and Pétrusse sections are open to walk. Above ground, Mudam and the museum pass cover the rest of the afternoon.
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