Neuschwanstein is the most popular castle in Europe if not the world stats I believe say and is one of the very top tourist attractions in Germany according to the German Tourist Office - many jaded traveler pan it as a joke but it is a lovely sureallistic joke with a surprise at every turn inside. Not your grandfather's castle for sure - not filled with boring old furniture and tapestries but a surprise at every turn, literally.

Oberammergau, those buses leave at night. I always want to go back and is such a beautiful village. I love lunch from the butcher shop. He always has a couple of specials.

I liked the grounds at Linderhof but the house was not so impressive. Very short tour. The piano he had made for Wagner was my favorite part. I think the castles in ruins are better to visit. I made the trek to Neuschwanstein but the tourist were so thick I said forget it. It was snowing that day and wanted to get back home.
Do visit the chapel on the way to the top of the Zugspitze.
The Olympic ski jump and the stadium from the 30's olympics are very impressive.

Thanks for all the great insight
Here is the revisions I made
Day 1 late arrival
Day 2 self tour Berlin Wall
Brandenburg Gate
Marx & Engels Platz
Palace of the Republic
Hitler's bunker
Potsdamer Platz
Gendarmenmarkt
Nazi Topography of Terror
Unter den Linden
Checkpoint Charlie
Luftwaffe Ministry
Bebelplatz
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Reichstag

Day 3 self tour - architecture tour (self)

Day 4 Fly to Munich eary arrival - Dachau Olympic Stadium climb Glass stadium
Day 5 Munich city center Leave Munch (drive w/ car)
Visit Andechs Monastery on the way
arrive hotel in Garnish Partenkirchin
Visite Partnach Gorge and Zugspitze cable car ride

Day 6 Castles Oberammergua

Day 7 and 8 9 are open for suggestion
-I need to get to Frankfurt for flight departure on the day 10 a 9AM where should I go ?
Stuttgart? Rothenburg? Helilberg? Wurzburg?

Day 10 my flight leaves at 9:00AM



Day 6 leave Munich For Bavaria with rent a car
Zugpitze and Ludwig castles

Heidelberg to me is a fantastically nice city - student pubs liven up the Old Town - the castle of your dreams high above it all - and a short train ride to Frankfurt Airport and a good base for day trips to Rhine towns of Speyer or Worms or Mainz or to take the famous K-D boats thru the Rhine Gorge. www.k-d.com.

You might love the Garmisch area so much you stay another day. Mittenwald is a short ride south. http://www.fodors.com/world/europe/g...ces/mittenwald

I have left Garmisch in the morning and spent the night in Rothenburg before a departure but you have a very early one so would get a little closer to the airport the last night. It would be a great stop the day before though.

Just a thought. In May we returned our Budget rental and filled up about ten miles from the airport. We did not get a receipt and the guy checking the car back in insisted on a receipt or ten euro. It was a diesel VW and it was full but he would not budge. My husband went back out, found a gas station and put in one euro overfilling the car but had the dam receipt. I have rented from Budget three times at Frankfurt and have never been asked this. When he went to give him the receipt he said he didn't want it...I think he was pocketing ten euro on each car.

Thanks for the car tip