Planning Christmas Market Trip to Germany 2024
 

Hello,

we are planning a Christmas market tour to Germany in December 2024 of around 3 weeks in length. Frankfurt will just be our landing and departure spot - no overnight spent there. I won't bore you with all the current details but our route starts in Frankfurt to Nuremburg to Rothenburg to Munich to Lindau to Ttitsee to Baden Baden and back to Frankfurt. MY plan would be to return on Christmas day due the markets being over and many restaurants and sites are closed but DH wants to stay until the 27th. My question is......at this point, we will be in Baden Baden for three nights and will be there on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. For anyone who's been there over the holiday, are any restaurants open? We could drive to Strasbourg for dinners if necessary.

We are planning to go to Strasbourg for a day trip as well as Neuschwanstein (enroute from Munich to Lindau) and possibly a day trip from Munich to Salzburg via train. DH worked in Walldorf for several years and we've been there many times - just not over Christmas.

Thank you all!

You might visit the Ravenna Gorge ( black forest ) Christmas market

Regarding Baden-Baden, a place we go to fairly frequently (we have relatives there), your safest bet for the holidays is to book a hotel that has on-site restaurants that will be open Christmas eve and Christmas day. We always stay here: https://www.hommage-hotels.com/en/ma...aden/our-hotel Confirm with them that their restaurants will be open during your stay. I suggest you also ask them if they do room service and if you can get that over Christmas eve and day. This is just in case they offer only a set Christmas eve/day meal in the restaurants and the fixed menu doesn't appeal that much to you. The hotel has a great breakfast buffet and a nice bar, usually with a piano player. And of course it's a spa hotel with pool, sauna, steam room, exercise room etc.