Here is an itinerary that I helped building for my clients. They are planning to go Dusseldorf - Wuerzburg - Nueremberg - Munich - Salzburg - Vienna.
In this itinerary you can see hotels, means of transportation, some restaurants, and various tours and activities.
EUROPA 2013
Germany - Austria - Hungary
Itinerary
March 2
9:15 am - Arrive to Dusseldorf11:02 am Train Dusseldorf Airp - Wuerzburg
11:21 am: Dus - Wurezburg
HOTEL ALTER KRANEN
http://www.hotel-alter-kranen.de/index.php/english/impressions
(Rhine river view)
(reserved 1 night - no car garage)
Places to visit:
Old Main Bridge - you can get there from old town
Residenz - they have 30-40 minutes tour, you can read it online and decide whether you would like it or not. See http://www.residenz-wuerzburg.de/englisch/residenz/index.htm
Markt Platz
Hike to Fortress Marienberg
SLEEP IN WUERZBURG
March 3
9am: RENT A CAR
Reservado y Pagado @ Europcar
WURZBURG - ROTHENBURG - BAMBERG - NUREMBERG
http://en.mappy.com/#d%5B%5D=Würzburg,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Nuremberg,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Bamberg,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Rothenburg+ob+der+Tauber,+91541,+Bavaria,+Germany&endPos%5By%5D=49.45052&endPos%5Bx%5D=11.08048&ipo=1&lm=r&p=itinerary
Rothenburg
- Jacobkirche
- Markplatz
- Christmas museum (not sure if you are interested at all)
- Just going around old town is very nice
Bamberg
- Go around old town
- Interesting places to see
- Memorial Synagogue Bamberg - just memorial
- Old Town Hall (there are frescoes on that building)
- Old crane
- Old mill area
- Walk along river
- St. Michael Church (it is uphill, so you can see town from there)
- Seehof Palace - palace, garden, fountains
- Old gate to Bamberg
- Old gatehouse
- Little Venice (there is little resemblance to Venice though)
Nuremberg
- Kaserburg Castle
- Church of Old Lady - built on a site of first synagogue
- Beautiful fountain
SLEEP IN NUREMBERG:
Hotel Victoria - 94 euros (includes breakfast)
http://www.hotelvictoria.de/hotel_nuernberg/en/zimmer-nuernberg/reservation/book-online.html?hotel_id=victorianuernberg&spr=e&modus=quick-res&anktt=3&ankmm=3&ankjj=2012&tage=1&anzahlez=-&anzahldz=1
RESERVED @ EXPEDIA (thru your website)
7pm: Return Rent a Car
HOTEL CORTIINA @ MUNICH
RESERVED @ EXPEDIA (thru your website)
Cortiina: 194 dollars a night (318 euro total including taxes on the hotel website).
MUNICH TOUR
10 am: Vive Munich Tour (Bertha) - 6.5 hrs private tour in spanish -
Day Trip to Salzburg
9:27 am: Munich - Salzburg (llega 10:56 am)
Take luggage and leave in the station lockers
http://www.oebb.at/de/Reisen_in_Oesterreich/Salzburg/Services_am_Bahnhof/Bahnhofumbau_Salzburg_Hauptbahnhof/Fahrgastinfo.pdf
Buy Salzburg Card - 23 euros each
http://www.salzburg.info/en/sights/salzburg_card
A trip up to the fortress is a must. The funicular railway is the best way up as it takes less than a minute (it's a steep walk otherwise). The cathedral, Mozart's birthplace, the horse pond, etc are all within a few minutes walk of each other. If you take a look on the Salzburg tourism website:
http://www2.salzburg.info/sehenswertes.html
you will see lots of things to visit. Mirabelgarten is a few minutes walk across the river, anyone will tell you where it is if you're unsure.
Many people take the city tour in a horse drawn carriage.
Mozart related sightseeings
1. Salzburg train station
12 minutes
2. Mirabell Garden & Mirabell Palace - the place where Maria and the Trapp children sing "Do-Re-Mi" and run through the hedge tunnel. http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/mirabellgarden.htm
14 minutes
3. Residenzplatz Square - Maria crossed the square by bus on the way to the Trapp villa, leaving the convent and singing "I have confidence in me". http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/residenz.htm
5 minutes
4. Felsenreitschule and Festival Halls - This is the stage on which the Trapps perform during the Salzburg Festival and Georg von Trapp sings "Edelweiss". http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/festivalhalls.htm
22 minutes
5. Leopoldskron Castle - The facade facing the lake served as one of the views on the house of the Trapp family. http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/leopoldskron.htm
6. “Sound of music pavilion” - was inside the garden in Leopoldskron Castle
20 minutes
7. Frohnburg Castle - he court and front facade facing Hellbrunner Allee served for other views on the house of the Trapp family, for example, when Maria just arrives at the villa. http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/frohnburg.htm
6 minutes
8. Nonnberg nunnery - Early scenes, when the nuns sing "Maria". http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/nonnberg.htm
Departs every hour @ 02 Salzburg hbf - Wien Wien Westbahnhof
COMPRAR EN EL MOMENTO
HOTEL: VIENNA
Grand Hotel Wien
RESERVED @ EXPEDIA (thru your website)
LUNCH 1:30 PM @ http://www.steirereck.at/restaurant/ (confirmed by email)
7PM: CONFIRMED
Don Giovanni Opera @ official website.
After-Opera Restaurant Options
http://www.sacher.com/en-red-bar.htm
o:
http://www.cafeweimar.at/jart/prj3/cafe_weimar/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1189701076033&reserve-mode=active
Restaurant @ Vienna
Tian (vegetarian)
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g190454-d2524649-Reviews-Tian_Vienna-Vienna.html#REVIEWS
RESERVED @ EXPEDIA (thru your website)
Call a taxi- do not get one from station
- 6x6 - 36.1.666.6666 - http://www.6x6taxi.hu/
- City - 36.1.211.1111 - www.citytaxi.hu/index.php…
- Radio - 36.1.777.7777 - http://www.radiotaxi.hu/
http://tenthingstodo.topbudapest.org
Tour guide reserved with Andras. Mypersonalbudapest.com (170 day 1 + 230 day 2)
Day one March 09
09.00 pick up at your hotel
Trabant tour: Budapest's major attractions covered on a 3 hours tour
Hungarian lunch in a Hungarian home
Places left out of guidebooks-the hidden treasures of Budapest-we will be touring and seeing some places-not the Synagogue!- in the jewish district too. But if we want to do all these 3 activities on one day , there is no more time for the jewish area than 1 hour.
18:30 1 hour boat cruise
The tour ends at 18.30 at the pier, your guide stays with you until you board the ship
9:00 pm: Citadella Panorama Budapest (reserved online)
Here are some places to see and things to do in Budapest.
- famous Budapest districts - Buda, Óbuda, Pest
- Heroes' Square and the street Rakoczy, Gellért Hill and Buda hills, Fishermen's Bastion, and Parliament, Matthias Church (where Hungarian kings were crowned) and Elizabeth Bridge (as in Hungarian beauty named Sissi)
- Architectural park Vajdahunyad
- evening tour on the boat with the Hungarian Tokay wine, champagne and cocktails
- famous thermal baths - Szechenyi (from +27 ° C to +38 ° C)
- Museum of Fine Arts that has famous collection of Spanish artists such as El Greco, Goya , Murillo, Velasquez, works by Picasso, Chagall, Kokoschka and others
- try famous transparent thin pancakes "palachinki." Best sweet pancakes called "Gundel" with nut filling and can be with dark chocolate and rum.
Day two March 10
Danube Bend tour http://mypersonalbudapest.com/offer_the_danube_bend
09:00 pick up at hotel
- Walk in Szentendre: along trader's houses, main square, little streets on the hill above the downtown, by churches. The Szentendre tour includes a special activity too: you will visit a ceramic studio and attend an art presentation. Afterwards the artists will give you the chance to try your hands!
- Visegrád: the panorama of the Danube Bend
- Esztergom: visit to Hungary's largest cathedral in the town where St Stephen-Hungary's first king-was born. Lunch in a beautiful restaurant under gothic arches.
- A stop in Slovakia is included!
Option B: - Jewish Synagogue (http://www.dohanystreetsynagogue.hu taking part of Esztergom out of day 2... Hablar con Andras y ver...
The tour ends around 17.00, we will take you back to your hotel.
8:25 pm: BUD - DUS
March 11 - am breakfast in DUS - flight @ 12:15 pm
- Jacobkirche
- Markplatz
- Christmas museum (not sure if you are interested at all)
- Just going around old town is very nice
Bamberg
- Go around old town
- Interesting places to see
- Memorial Synagogue Bamberg - just memorial
- Old Town Hall (there are frescoes on that building)
- Old crane
- Old mill area
- Walk along river
- St. Michael Church (it is uphill, so you can see town from there)
- Seehof Palace - palace, garden, fountains
- Old gate to Bamberg
- Old gatehouse
- Little Venice (there is little resemblance to Venice though)
Nuremberg- Kaserburg Castle
- Church of Old Lady - built on a site of first synagogue
- Beautiful fountain
SLEEP IN NUREMBERG:
Hotel Victoria - 94 euros (includes breakfast)
http://www.hotelvictoria.de/hotel_nuernberg/en/zimmer-nuernberg/reservation/book-online.html?hotel_id=victorianuernberg&spr=e&modus=quick-res&anktt=3&ankmm=3&ankjj=2012&tage=1&anzahlez=-&anzahldz=1
RESERVED @ EXPEDIA (thru your website)
March 4
NUREMBERG - INGOLSTADT - DACHAU - MUNICH
http://en.mappy.com/#d%5B%5D=Nuremberg,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Munich,+80331,+80634,+...,+85609,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Ingolstadt,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Dachau,+Bavaria,+Germany&endPos%5By%5D=48.139126&endPos%5Bx%5D=11.580186&ipo=1&lm=r&p=itinerary
I will try to squeeze Ingolstadt to give my husband a surprise to go to Audi Museum
Dachau http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/directions.html
NUREMBERG - INGOLSTADT - DACHAU - MUNICH
http://en.mappy.com/#d%5B%5D=Nuremberg,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Munich,+80331,+80634,+...,+85609,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Ingolstadt,+Bavaria,+Germany&d%5B%5D=Dachau,+Bavaria,+Germany&endPos%5By%5D=48.139126&endPos%5Bx%5D=11.580186&ipo=1&lm=r&p=itinerary
I will try to squeeze Ingolstadt to give my husband a surprise to go to Audi Museum
Dachau http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/directions.html
7pm: Return Rent a Car
HOTEL CORTIINA @ MUNICH
RESERVED @ EXPEDIA (thru your website)
Cortiina: 194 dollars a night (318 euro total including taxes on the hotel website).
March 5
MUNICH TOUR10 am: Vive Munich Tour (Bertha) - 6.5 hrs private tour in spanish -
RESERVED - 150 euros CASH
City tour + Third Reich Tour
March 6
Day Trip to Salzburg
9:27 am: Munich - Salzburg (llega 10:56 am)
Take luggage and leave in the station lockers
http://www.oebb.at/de/Reisen_in_Oesterreich/Salzburg/Services_am_Bahnhof/Bahnhofumbau_Salzburg_Hauptbahnhof/Fahrgastinfo.pdf
Buy Salzburg Card - 23 euros each
http://www.salzburg.info/en/sights/salzburg_card
A trip up to the fortress is a must. The funicular railway is the best way up as it takes less than a minute (it's a steep walk otherwise). The cathedral, Mozart's birthplace, the horse pond, etc are all within a few minutes walk of each other. If you take a look on the Salzburg tourism website:
http://www2.salzburg.info/sehenswertes.html
you will see lots of things to visit. Mirabelgarten is a few minutes walk across the river, anyone will tell you where it is if you're unsure.
Many people take the city tour in a horse drawn carriage.
Mozart related sightseeings
Walking route (Sound of Music theme) - 1 hour 19 minutes walking time only
1. Salzburg train station
12 minutes
2. Mirabell Garden & Mirabell Palace - the place where Maria and the Trapp children sing "Do-Re-Mi" and run through the hedge tunnel. http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/mirabellgarden.htm
14 minutes
3. Residenzplatz Square - Maria crossed the square by bus on the way to the Trapp villa, leaving the convent and singing "I have confidence in me". http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/residenz.htm
5 minutes
4. Felsenreitschule and Festival Halls - This is the stage on which the Trapps perform during the Salzburg Festival and Georg von Trapp sings "Edelweiss". http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/festivalhalls.htm
22 minutes
5. Leopoldskron Castle - The facade facing the lake served as one of the views on the house of the Trapp family. http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/leopoldskron.htm
6. “Sound of music pavilion” - was inside the garden in Leopoldskron Castle
20 minutes
7. Frohnburg Castle - he court and front facade facing Hellbrunner Allee served for other views on the house of the Trapp family, for example, when Maria just arrives at the villa. http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/frohnburg.htm
6 minutes
8. Nonnberg nunnery - Early scenes, when the nuns sing "Maria". http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/nonnberg.htm
Departs every hour @ 02 Salzburg hbf - Wien Wien Westbahnhof
COMPRAR EN EL MOMENTO
HOTEL: VIENNA
Grand Hotel Wien
RESERVED @ EXPEDIA (thru your website)
March 7 - Vienna
- Jewish museum (no tiene buen review)
- Museum Judenplatz
- Nacshmarkt (market)
- Hundertwasser House - I love how it looks
- Schönbrunn Palace. You are not fans of churches and palaces (?), but you can walk around it.
- Danube Tower @ Night
LUNCH 1:30 PM @ http://www.steirereck.at/restaurant/ (confirmed by email)
7PM: CONFIRMED
Don Giovanni Opera @ official website.
After-Opera Restaurant Options
http://www.sacher.com/en-red-bar.htm
o:
http://www.cafeweimar.at/jart/prj3/cafe_weimar/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1189701076033&reserve-mode=active
March 8 - Vienna - evening train to Budapest
Restaurant @ Vienna
Tian (vegetarian)
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g190454-d2524649-Reviews-Tian_Vienna-Vienna.html#REVIEWS
http://czech-transport.com/index.php?lang=en&menu_id=papertickets&bss=1
Departs by the even hour (2-4-6pm from Wien Meidling)SLEEP IN BUDAPEST
KEMPINSKI HOTELRESERVED @ EXPEDIA (thru your website)
Call a taxi- do not get one from station
- 6x6 - 36.1.666.6666 - http://www.6x6taxi.hu/
- City - 36.1.211.1111 - www.citytaxi.hu/index.php…
- Radio - 36.1.777.7777 - http://www.radiotaxi.hu/
March 9 - Budapest
http://www.triptobudapest.huhttp://tenthingstodo.topbudapest.org
Tour guide reserved with Andras. Mypersonalbudapest.com (170 day 1 + 230 day 2)
Day one March 09
09.00 pick up at your hotel
Trabant tour: Budapest's major attractions covered on a 3 hours tour
Hungarian lunch in a Hungarian home
Places left out of guidebooks-the hidden treasures of Budapest-we will be touring and seeing some places-not the Synagogue!- in the jewish district too. But if we want to do all these 3 activities on one day , there is no more time for the jewish area than 1 hour.
18:30 1 hour boat cruise
The tour ends at 18.30 at the pier, your guide stays with you until you board the ship
9:00 pm: Citadella Panorama Budapest (reserved online)
Here are some places to see and things to do in Budapest.
- famous Budapest districts - Buda, Óbuda, Pest
- Heroes' Square and the street Rakoczy, Gellért Hill and Buda hills, Fishermen's Bastion, and Parliament, Matthias Church (where Hungarian kings were crowned) and Elizabeth Bridge (as in Hungarian beauty named Sissi)
- Architectural park Vajdahunyad
- evening tour on the boat with the Hungarian Tokay wine, champagne and cocktails
- famous thermal baths - Szechenyi (from +27 ° C to +38 ° C)
- Museum of Fine Arts that has famous collection of Spanish artists such as El Greco, Goya , Murillo, Velasquez, works by Picasso, Chagall, Kokoschka and others
- try famous transparent thin pancakes "palachinki." Best sweet pancakes called "Gundel" with nut filling and can be with dark chocolate and rum.
March 10 - Budapest - evening flight to DUS (already bought)
Day 2 with AndrasDay two March 10
Danube Bend tour http://mypersonalbudapest.com/offer_the_danube_bend
09:00 pick up at hotel
- Walk in Szentendre: along trader's houses, main square, little streets on the hill above the downtown, by churches. The Szentendre tour includes a special activity too: you will visit a ceramic studio and attend an art presentation. Afterwards the artists will give you the chance to try your hands!
- Visegrád: the panorama of the Danube Bend
- Esztergom: visit to Hungary's largest cathedral in the town where St Stephen-Hungary's first king-was born. Lunch in a beautiful restaurant under gothic arches.
- A stop in Slovakia is included!
Option B: - Jewish Synagogue (http://www.dohanystreetsynagogue.hu taking part of Esztergom out of day 2... Hablar con Andras y ver...
The tour ends around 17.00, we will take you back to your hotel.
8:25 pm: BUD - DUS
Carat Hotel: Reserved/Paid @ Expedia (through your website)
March 11 - am breakfast in DUS - flight @ 12:15 pm
Hey its Kris Angel great information appreciated.
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