My sister and I will be spending a week in Munich in early March and want to take a weekend trip preferably by train. We would prefer a town with an elegant hotel and enough to do to keep us busy for Saturday and Sunday. I have already been to Nurnberg and Salzburg so would rather do something else. My Frommers book suggests lots of ski and hiking areas and we wanted more of a town/city experience. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
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I have heard great things about Regansburg. I wish we would have gone there instead of Nurnberg during Christmas Market. I think Heidelberg is a bit further, but if you get an ICE train directly it may be doable. It is a beautiful city.
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You might like to try Stuttgart. I see from another of your posts that you might like the nice weekly Saturday flea market there at Karlsplatz which we go to every weekend. There is easily enough to see and do in Stuttgart and the metropoltan area to last you many weekends. The opera and ballet are excellent as is the Staatsgallerie art museum, and there are the Porsche and excellent Mercedes Benz museums (plus plenty of others) as well as the second largest mineral springs in Europe after Budapest and the wonderful Wilhelma combination zoo-botanical gardens with its delightful Moorish architecture. If you like more %26quot;German%26quot; sights, nearby Ludwigsburg has the largest perfectly preserved baroque palace (Swabian Versailles) in Germany, and nearby Esslingen has a wonderful old town center. Stuttgart also has some significant contributions to world architecture.
An excellent place to stay would be Der Zauberlehrling, a small hotel in the Bohnenviertel (old quarter of town) with its themed rooms and excellent restaurant (our favorite in Stuttgart). Stuttgart has the third most Michelin starred restaurants in Germany after much larger Berlin and Hamburg. It probably will be possible to also eat at a Besenwirtschaft where the wineries are allowed to sell food until the new wine runs out. This is advertised by placng a broom outside the winery. Typically you will eat in the owner%26#39;s dining room at tables shared with other guests and it is quite fun.
I%26#39;m sure that you would have an enjoyable visit.
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Garmisch might meet your needs. The hotels around the Eibsee are quite elegant. Otherwise, going in the opposite direction, Wuerzburg. The hotel Maritime is tops. Since you are into Frommer,read up on these places to see if they meet your needs.
Another place, a ski resort but also with lots of activity and a good night life for non-skiers is Oberstdorf, in the Allgaeu region of Bavaria, southwest of Munich. It has several elegant hotels. Don%26#39;t know if Frommers write-ups do it justice.
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Thanks everyone for your nice messages. I was thinking Regensburg, but am now going to consider Stuttgart. Sounds pretty good, marcopolco! b
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Or Bamberg? (smaller than Stuttgart)
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Forgot the link:
bamberg.info/www_tks/bamberg_eng_home_268_89…
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Stuttgart is somewhat similar to San Francisco. There are plenty of tall steep hills, and Stuttgart also has a cable car from the valley floor to a nice wooded cemetary.
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