So you want to drop Munich from 4 nights to 2 in order to spend 1 night in each of Heidelberg and Ro

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So you want to drop Munich from 4 nights to 2 in order to spend 1 night in each of Heidelberg and Rothenburg, and then travel from one of them to GP for your next night? With one of the two Munich nights being your jet-lagged arrival day?
That is a really a stretch objective and I don't think many would sign up for it on a logistical basis or as a reasonable allotment of time. You would have only 2 nights in Munich discount hotel montreal before taking a couple of 2-3 hour trips for single night stays in each of RodT and Heidelberg to immediately end up in the Alps for 13 nights over 4 locations that are all within 3 hours of each other (and 3 of them are only 60 minutes from each other).
discount hotel montreal Hi Aramis. I'm sorry, but you have misunderstood. I mentioned that "with the above itinerary, we still have 2 nights to fill". In other words, we fly into Munich and have planned for spend 39 nights as outlined in the itinerary. However, we do not fly out until AFTER the 41st night. discount hotel montreal We still have 2 nights more to spend somewhere in Europe. We certainly will not be reducing our 4-night stay in Munich.
BTW, our original plan was to spend 7 nights in Munich and a few days each in GP and Berchtesgaden, but we were inundated with posters imploring that we spend far more time in the Alps rather than in Munich.
I think you will be bored to tears staying so long in Rothenburg. Give it a couple of hours to walk around if you like, but if you want a more authentic, medieval town, not filled with buses and souvenir stores, there are better ones. B dingen would be my suggestion. Heidelberg is worth a stop, but you don't have to stay there overnight. W rzburg would also be good.
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I have been to RodT 3 times and will return. In no way does it bore me to tears. It is at its best between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m., and you don't get that unless you stay overnight. While not chock full of majestic sites, it makes a good base to see some other places in the area; Nurnberg, Wurzburg, and Dinkelsbuehl, for example, all within 90 minutes by train or bus. With 2 days there, you have quite a few options
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As far as hiking, mountaineering etc. Again, we have learned when travelling for a longer period - I know a lot of Americans are unable to travel for longer than a few weeks - like we do, we sometimes just want to veg out. Have a laundry day; grab a coffee and not do much else. It gives you a second wind prior to the next adventure. We were told that the Alpine region in Germany/Austria was idea for just that.
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Hi Palen. I'm sorry, I must not be explaning myself very well. The two nights discount hotel montreal are additional to the itinerary outlined above. discount hotel montreal We don't need to take any days from anywhere to make up those two days - they are additional and currently unaccounted for. So it sounds like you would agree with my initial discount hotel montreal idea of staying in both Rothenburg and Hiedelberg for a night each.
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