Is this a doable (and enjoyable) schedule?

-1 Fly in from US in morning and spend day and night in Frankfurt
-2 take bus tour of romantic road, stay night in fuessen
-3 tour castles, last train to munchen
-4 spend day in munchen and take night train to berlin

... then staying four-five days in berlin, visiting friends.

Hi there,

I cant help you becuase i have never been to Germany, but I think you would get more responses if you re-posted with a new title that includes Germany. Something like Germany itinerary help or something like that.

Hope you have a great trip!

Have you looked at spending the first night outside of Frankfurt, in a town such as Rothenburg? Only a couple of hours outside of Frankfurt. The feel of Rothenburg is more inline with the Romantic Road / Castle feel of your first few days in Germany.

Not certain why you'd spend a day and night in Frankfurt unless it's for business or you have friends/family there. Not that Frankfurt is terrible, but, if you really want to go down to Fuessen and then spend some time in Munich, I'd add that time to the Romantic Road/Munich.

Looks as though you are talking about a total of 4 days before heading to Berlin. Unless you really really want to see the castles and Munich, you might consider an itinerary that doesn't take you so far south. For example--with that 4 days you could put together a nice package of 2 or 3 cities/towns like Wuerzburg, Bamberg, Nuernberg, and Coburg.

I would get on the train at the airport and head to Wuerzburg for a day. Then Bamberg for a day and Nuernberg for a couple of days. Or just two of those cities.

I will say that Bamberg is one of my favorite places to visit--has a great old town that wasn't damaged in the war, a castle and cathedral, the gravesites of a Pope and an Emporer, enough tourists that there are tourist-targeted conveniences, but not so many tourists that it's overrun or "touristy."

Here's an interesting personal Bamberg web site.

http://homepages.compuserve.de/alfredgrzesiek/hpalt/

I would certainly agree: avoid FRA, perhaps consider a day trip to the Moseltal, perhaps an overnight at Jagdschloss Niederwald above Rudesheim am Rhein before going to Rothenburg (Hot Berg is VG).
M

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm rethinking the Romantic Road. We do have a friend near Frankfurt and want to go to Munich for museum and want to see Neuschwanstein. May just head to Munich and do day trips...

that might be a much more relaxing way of doing it. Munich and Berlin - two great, great cities-(I also like FRA very much-it's very nice in the summertime to take a stroll down the Schaumainkai) it'll be hard to tear yourself away to do day trips, I'd think!