LakesideChick

Hi everyone
We will be driving the Romantic Road in Germany this September. We are relatively flexible with our time (ie no pre booked accommodation, which has never been an issue for us before). We will pick the car up in Frankfurt and then drive the Romantic Road and finish in Munich, before possibly driving to Salzburg..

The advice I am hoping for includes...
*Places to visit on the RR (or via a detour) that aren't necessarily listed on every tourist website
*Any accom / restaurant recommendations
*Any tips for driving in Europe in general
*How long to allow for this leg of our trip... is a week long enough? Too long?
*Any pitfalls on the RR that the tourism websites don't mention

Thanks in advance

Cathy

Aramis

*Places to visit on the RR (or via a detour) that aren't necessarily listed on every tourist website

NORTH - Schwaebisch Hall, Feuchtwangen, Iphofen, Creglingen (Herrgottskirche for the Tilman Riemenschneider alter).

SOUTH - Schloss Linderhof, Kloster Ettal, Mittenwald, Oberammergau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen


*Any tips for driving in Europe in general

Stay in the right lane except to pass. The Germans will teach you this very quickly and very smartly if you decide it is a meaningless consideration.

Have a general idea of the communities you will be passing on your way to your destination. The highway signage tends to list the next couple of towns more than it does the next "major" destination. A GPS, of course, makes this moot.


*How long to allow for this leg of our trip... is a week long enough? Too long?

That would depend on how much total time you have, how you like to travel and what else you wanted to do. If you are starting in Wurzburg and then going all the way down to Fussen, then back to Munich, a week is a pretty good plan for something slow paced - it is only about 3 hours straight time between Wurzburg and Fussen. If you wanted to stretch a little east and do Bamberg and Nurnberg then a week would take some planning.


*Any pitfalls on the RR that the tourism websites don't mention

Ludwig's castles are some of the least interesting things to visit in southern Bavaria. I find anything listed in the "off the RR SOUTH" list to be far more interesting and worthwhile.

ira

Hi LC

>*Places to visit on the RR (or via a detour) that aren't necessarily listed on every tourist website<

There aren't any, as the above post shows, eg Linderhof and Schwaebisch Hall aren't undiscovered gems that the tourist rarely sees.

What is your current itinerary?

Aramis

She didn't ask for undiscovered gems. She asked for places on the RR or "via a short detour" that weren't listed on every tourist website.

Schwaebisch Hall is not on the RR and is worth the detour.

Creglingen and Feuchtwangen are on the RR but don't get the "play" that Rothenburg, Dinkelsbuehl and Nordlingen do.

Linderhof and the others southern Bavaria sites I mentioned are also not on the RR and, in my opinion, are worth considering over Ludwig's Castles at the southern end of the route.

I like to answer the question asked rather than making misguided rebuttals.

joto

The Weiss Church is worth seeing. It is a bit touristy, so go early in the day or towards closing time. Be prepared for a sore neck though, as you will be looking up a lot of the time. We did wander into a tiny village, years ago, but can't remember the name of it, that was a fair bit off the RR looking for accomodation. We were only the 2nd Brits, at the time, to visit the village, and we were treated like kings.