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Advice on Berchtesgaden day trip?

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We will be visiting Salzburg this May and would like to plan a day trip to Berchtesgaden. We're hoping to visit Königssee and the Nazi sites. Initially, we were going book with Eagles Nest Tours but I'm worried the 1pm start of the tour will make things tight.

So my question is: Should we just "tour" the Nazi sites ourselves, giving us more time for hiking & boating?

Here's the original plan:

• Leave Salzburg on an early bus

• Head to Königssee and visit St. Bartholomä by boat

• Head back into town for the 1pm tour

If we did our own "tour," it might look something like this:

• Leave Salzburg on an early bus

• Head to Königssee and visit St. Bartholomä by boat

• Also take the boat to Salet, and do the hike to Obersee (and possibly the Röthbach waterfall)

• Visit the Eagle's nest (and other sites?) on our own time. (I realize the last bus heads up at 4pm.)

• Come back to Salzburg in the evening

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The Eagle's Nest this by far the highlight to visiting Berchtesgaden and the area. Do not miss it.

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If you're interested in alternative tours that may have a timing that's better for you, we did this tour in 2023 and it was excellent: https://www.discover-eagles-nest.com/

We did a private tour but they have group ones as well. Honestly I can't recommend it highly enough!

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I've been to Berchtesgaden three times and to Salzburg once. I really think that Berchtesgaden deserves more than a day trip. All three of my trips to Berchtesgaden have been for two whole days, one day for the Eagles Nest and the Documentation Center and one day for Königssee.

In 2002, I made a day trip to Salzburg. I'm a big fan of SOM and knew what I wanted to see - what was real from the movie and what was tour hype. I saw everything that was in the movie in one day, at no cost. I later made separate trips to Werfen and Mondsee (Mondsee on my way to Hallstatt).

So, if I were making the trip, I would spend most of my time in Berchtesgaden and make a day trip to Salzburg.

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Come back to Salzburg in the evening

Bus 840, the Watzmann express, leaves the Berchtesgaden Busbahnhof for it's last run to Salzburg at 19:15 (7:15pm), but the trains through Freilassing make their last runs later, at 20:19 (8:19pm) and 22:09 (10:09pm).

The bus makes several stop in the old town on it's way to the Hbf, but the trains come in from the other direction (Germany) just to the Salzburg Hbf, so if you're staying in the old town, you'll have to get a bus from the Hbf or walk.

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