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We are in the process of finalizing our plans and we could either spend New Year in Munich (will be arriving in Munich New Years Eve early morning) or continue to Salzburg and then return to Munich, our departure city.
This is our first time in both cities and need your help deciding on a city and hotel to stay with good ambiance for New Year celebration and for the rest of our stay. Our preference is close to transportation, restaurants, tourist attractions, we love to walk around the cities.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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If it is your first time to both, I would definitely go to Munich...it is much much bigger, which means more to see and do during the New Year break. Much more choice. Plus you have a great Underground there for getting around. Munich is about 2.5 million people vs about 150k in Salzburg. Salzburg is great in summer, but kind of provincial for a big winter holiday. Rouss
Definitely stay in Munich, the MandarinOriental hotel has the best location in downtown. The Mercure also has a reasonably priced 4 star hotel inside downtown. option is to stay close to the train station which has some less desirable stores and not as clean. Le meridien is a nice hotel with reasonable prices.
You may consider new year's eve dinner and celebration at the Ratskeller below the famous clock tower at the Marienplatz.
A different view. In 2003 Gayot included Salzburg among its top 10 New Year destinations. I think we went in 2005 and were not disappointed. We had dinner in a lovely restaurant--Blau Gans, and then took to the streets to watch one of the best fireworks shows I've ever seen. Not only was there plenty to watch in the air, but the locals were going crazy with their own displays on the ground level, so much so that we fairly danced through the stuff popping off. Dancing was also the order of the evening as the locals and tourists took to dancing in the streets to the sounds of Strauss waltzes. There were tents set up at several places, snow bars, pictures projected on building walls, and a steady flow of bubbly and beer--and great kiosks selling pretzels and best of all sandwiches of dried beef and raclette. We had our young 30 somethings with us and everyone loved the festivities.
Gayot thought Salzburg right up there with NYC and Sydney. They never mentioned Munich.
I vote for Salzburg.
I am hoping more people will post... I making the same decision except for earlier in December for the markets...
gruezi