Planning Your Time

The two bigger cities on the Romantic Road, Augsburg and Würzburg, can handle large influxes of visitors at any time. But at the two best-known and therefore most visited places, Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber and Neuschwanstein, it pays to arrive by night in order to get up early to tour the next morning. You can follow the night watchman in Rothenburg as he makes his rounds, and then see the town in the early morning. Have a late but leisurely breakfast as you watch the bus-tour groups push through the streets around 11. For Neuschwanstein an early start is even more important to beat the crowds.