Aditi

Hi All,
Need your help in designing a 15 nights itinerary for Germany-Austria trip in June'15 ( I am traveling with my husband for my second honeymoon). We will be flying into Munich from Mumbai, India and out of Vienna. I am sharing my itinerary with you..there is still scope of improvement (not booked the acco yet)
4th June-
Reach Munich (stay for 2 nights)
6th June-
Rent a car. Leave for Mittenwald/ Oberammagau for staying for 3 nights
By 12 noon- Reach Neuschwanstein Castle, Hohenschwangau Castle. Visit Mary's bridge. Roam around Fussen
7th June-
Visit Garmisch-Partenkirchen & Zugspitze
8th June-
Roam around Mittenwald
9th June-
Leave for Hall in Tirol. On the way, visit Gnadenwald & Hinterhornalm near Innsbruck. Check-in at a hotel in HiT. Visit Maurach in the night
10th June-
Visit Hintertux Glacier for skiing in the morning. Visit Mayrhofen for lunch.
On the way back to HiT, stop by Alpbach and Achensee
11th June-
Leave for Zell Am See for staying for the night.
Visit Schmittenhöhe, Hohe Tauern and Krimml Waterfall in the day.
12th June-
Leave for Grossglockner High Alpine Road starting from Bruck
Reach Hallstatt by 3 pm, Stay a night
13th June- Leave for Berchtesgaden and stay for 3 nights
14th June- Visit Salzburg as a day trip
15th June- Visit Chiemsee as a day trip
16th June- Drop the car at Freilassing. Take a train to Vienna
16th, 17th , 18th June- Vienna for 3 nights
19th June- Morning Flight to Mumbai
Please please please share your comments/ opinion!

asps

My heart is aching that you pass through Innsbruck without even stopping. With a baroque royal palace and a renaissance castle, not to tell the best shopping opportunities in the district, Innsbruck would deserve some time, more than Alpbach or Maurach.

coffeequeen

Hi Aditi,

Between June 4th and June 9th, try to fit in a visit to Ludwig's Linderhof Palace. By the way, we love Mittenwald. We stayed in 4/05 and 10/06. The Karwendelbahn cable car right in Mittenwald is worthwhile.

Hall in Tirol is another favorite. We've stayed 18 nights over 5 stays at the Gasthof Badl in Hall in Tirol, as recently as Dec. 2013. If you aren't staying here, at least go for dinner in their restaurant. Excellent and reasonably priced.

www.badl.at

The Berchtesgaden area is yet another favorite. We always stay here for trips including a visit to Salzburg. If you've seen enough of Ludwig's castles/places, maybe take a boat trip on the Konigsee, 10 min. from Berchtesgaden. Berchtesgaden to Salzburg is under a 30 min. drive. Again, over 5 stays we have stayed 18 nights near Berchtesgaden, as recently as Dec. 2013. Our 2 favorite places to stay in the area are:

The Pension Mayringerlehen in Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden, 10 min. from Berchtesgaden and the Guesthouse Friedwiese, in Schonau am Konigsee, less than 5 min. from Berchtesgaden.

www.mayringerlehen.de
www.friedwiese.de/enska/isl.htm

I'd give a very slight edge to the Pension Mayringerlehen, since we like the farm aspect... goats, cows, chickens, etc., etc. A favorite place for dinner near Berchtesgaden is right on the B305 between Berchtesgaden and Ramsau be Berchtesgaden:
www.gebirgshaeusl.com/restaurant_e.html

Zell am See is very picturesque. We stayed in 9/09. From Hall in Tirol, I would again go to the Zillertal and at Zell am Ziller, then take the Gerlos Pass to Mittersill to Zell am See. It's a nice, scenic drive.
We can recommend staying at:

www.pension-alpenrose.at/en/welcome/

Free parking and less than a 10 minute walk to the old town and lakeside promenade.

If interested, we have photo's of all these at:

www.flickr.com/photos/pjbassplyr/sets

PS: try a luge ride (Sommerrodelbahn) during your trip. A lot of fun.

Near Neuschwanstein is the Tegelberg cable car and luge ride:
http://www.tegelbergbahn.de/sommerro...tegelberg.html


Garmisch:
www.sommerrodelbahn-gap.de

Above Berchtesgaden is this one:
www.hochlenzer.de/rodelbahn.html


Paul

Aditi

Hey coffeequeen and asps..
Thanks for the responses! Would definitely consider all the acco recommendations.. Anyways I am struggling to find the same reasonably priced in smaller towns and villages.
Talking about the visits to linderhof, Innsbruck and Karwendelbahn.. they are definitely on my radar as day trips..
Please advise on the skiing bit.. How difficult is it for first timers.. Also my husband and I are really looking forward to lots and lots of snow on Hintertux and Grossglockner High Alpine Road!
Though I dunno if this will be the case in June.
Please pour in more suggestions for interesting places to visit in and around the towns mentioned.. we are not too much into history but really looovee the nature!

I'm all ears!

Adelaidean

You have chosen wonderful places given you love nature.
Mittenwald - have stayed 6 nights over 2 visits. Delightful town. Lovely walk to the Leutaschklamm, great cablecar.
Berchtesgaden - have cruised the Koenigsee twice on different trips. Do go to Salet and walk the trail along Obersee to the beer garden, so beautiful. Mt Jenner has walks, but obviously cloud affects value of that.
Fuessen - another lovely town. So overlooked by day trippers. Instead of taking 'castle' bus, take the Tegelberg bus from the train station, cablecar up mountain, and walk the Reitweg trail for 2 hrs which takes you behind the castle to the famous bridge overlooking it. Nice walk along river too, in Fuessen, and the lake. Mountains, river, lake, forests, castles, so stunning.
Garmisch - consider Alpspitze for nice hiking trails, Zugspitze has a nice hike at the base lake Eibsee.