Daytrips Germany: 60 One Day Adventures by Rail or by Car in Bavaria, the Rhineland, the North and the East (Paperback)
May 23, 2009 by Destination Guide
Filed under Travel Germany Guides
Product Description
Now in its sixth edition, Daytrips Germany has long been a favorite guidebook for adventurous travelers who prefer to make their own tours. This latest revision covers the tremendous changes taking place, especially in Berlin and the East, as well as the momentous changeover to a new monetary system and the growing importance of the Internet as a source of up-to-the-minute factual data.
Each of the 60 one-day adventures is complete with a do-it-yourself walking tour, a map, full travel directions, time and weather considerations, restaurant suggestions, background information, and concise descriptions of all worthwhile sights.
Destinations in Bavaria include: Munich, Nymphenburg, Lake Starnberg, the Ammersee, Oberammergau and Linderhof, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Zugspitze, Mittenwald, Fussen and Neuschwanstein, Lindau, Augsburg, Ulm, Rothenburg, Wurzburg, Nurnberg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Regensburg, the Chiemsee, Bad Reichenhall, Berchtesgaden, and the Wendelstein.
In the Rhineland they are: Frankfurt, Mainz, Wiesbaden, a Rhine cruise, Rudesheim, Koblenz, Trier, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Limburg, Bad Homburg, Marburg, Aschaffenburg, Miltenberg, Michelstadt, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Worms, Baden-Baden, Triberg, and Freiburg.
Up north, the trips include: Hamburg, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Schleswig, Lubeck, Luneburg, Celle, and Goslar.
In the East they include: Berlin (four walking tours), Sans Souci, Potsdam, Dresden, Leipzig, and Wittenberg.
And, just in case travelers get hungry seeing all this, there is a comprehensive menu translator.
About the Author
Earl Steinbicker is a born tourist who believes that travel should be a joy, not an endurance test. For over 35 years he has been refining his carefree style of daytripping while working in New York, London, Paris, and other cities. Whether by public transportation or private car, he has thoroughly probed the most delightful aspects of countries around the world. A strong desire to share these experiences has led him to develop the “Daytrips” series of guides, which he continues to expand and revise.
Before our family trip for 10 days throughout Germany, I purchased a few different travel guides. After having each of them in hand before leaving home, we took 3 books with us. By the 3rd day, we only carried 2 books with us: this one and then as a BACKUP, Rick Steves’ Germany and Austria 2006. Those 2 books were great for finding tourist sites, great restaurants and hotels that could accommodate 2 adults and 2 kids (most hotels don’t have rooms with 2 beds!)
This book series is ideal for tourists that want to get more out of their trips. I own five in the series and I just bought a sixth! Our last trip to Germany was a business trip for my husband. While he worked I used this book to daytrip to surrounding towns. Staying in one town and using the efficient public transport in Europe for daytrips is an ideal way to travel. You also learn more about a town from a walking tour than you will from any other kind. And this book may include places you hadn’t considered but are gems (like my trip to Gosling).
This book was very helpful while planning my trip to Germany. My time was very limited in Germany so I wanted to just hit the high points in each area. Although the book is a couple years old, I found the information to be accurate and helpful. I especially found it helpful for my trip to the North. There are many other books that have lots of information on Bavaria and the Rhineland but basically nothing on the cities in the North. So this book gave me some ideas. It was organized by regions in a very understandable way. My daughter and I traveled with backpacks via the train system so we carefully decided each item as to its value in carrying with us and this book was one of the things we took. So, I would recommend it to anyone going to Germany who likes to pick and plan what they want to see.
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Great Info would prefer more pictures
This has great trip info and area info but I am a visual person and wish there were more pictures and color at that.
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Great!
We used Frankfurt as a “base” on a recent family vacation and this book was perfect for helping us explore the surrounding area.
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Good guide
This guide provides a nice summary. The “day trip” approach is taking a car or train to get from your base city to the destination and back within a day.
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Appropriate title
I have bought three copies of this book, one for me and two for fellow military that I work with. There are so many interesting places to travel in Germany-either by road or by…
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Great book!
The only thing that could be better if it were updated a little more. Things are constantly changing, so prices are probably changed, and some roads are no longer the same.
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Excellent book
I purchased three books prior to our trip to Germany. This was by far the best for what we wanted to do.
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Daytrips Germany
Useful but boring, the same format over and over. The 2002 edition I just received is really out of date.
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Fantastic memories
We, my wife and I, found the daytrips very informative.How else would we have found the famous “Rauchbier” in Bamberg? It alone was worth the price of the book.
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Everything you need to know about Germany.
We took 3 travel guides with us on our tour of Germany and this is the one we used the most. It has everything that you need to know.
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Daytrips Germany
Unfortunately this book arrived after I left for my trip so I didn’t do me any good at all. It would have been handy however.