Plans for me and parents

Our three big destinations are Munich, Salzburg, and Füßen. We’re keeping in the Germany-Austria region because I don’t think our week will allow for much more. Plus, I can show off my German to my parents this way. Here’s the itinerary.

July 28: Parents arrive in Frankfurt at 9:15 am. I shuffle them into a train for Munich. They feel gross and tired. We stay the night in Munich’s Hotel Monaco (confirmed reservation for two nights).

July 29: Munich. Glockenspiel, Hofbräuhaus, Dachau, Deutsches Museum, Englischer Gardens. My friend Christa and her boyfriend will be in town, so we can meet them for lunch, maybe.

July 30: Morning in Munich and sometime after lunch we head for Salzburg via train or car. We’ll stay at Bergland Hotel (confirmed reservation for two nights), walk around, and have dinner.

July 31: Salzburg all day. Sound of Music tour, Hohenfestung, Mozart’s birthplace, Brewery Monchberg.

Aug 1: We pack up in Salzburg and head for Füßen (also spelled Füssen or Fuessen) to see the castles. We stay at the Alpenhotel Meier (no reservation yet!), which has a great location.

Aug 2: Füßen all day. Neuschwanstrein and Hohenschwangau castles.

Aug 3: Take off from Füßen and go back to Frankfurt for the night. Stay at Hotel Maingau (no reservation yet!).

Aug 4: Have good breakfast and head for airport plenty early.

Aug 5: Arrive back in US.

A word about the hotels. I do not know how to plan things, so you all should be amazed I even reserved two hotels so far. These four hotels were chosen from a small list of Rick Steves recommendations in his Germany & Austria travel book. The Munich hotel is sort of ugly, but it will do for two nights. And we shouldn’t be there except to sleep anyway.

Transportation is not worked out, but won’t that be fun! The current plan is to just buy train tickets as we need them (the prices aren’t changing at this point), and rent a car in Munich, maybe. Don’t worry–stuff works out.