Bus trip along "Romantic Road

Some general information on the Romantic Road can be found here.

Information about the Romantic Road Europabus trip is also online. I see that the webpage refers to 2015; I don't know whether that means anything. I took this trip (I guess it was this one) so long ago that my experience (which was perfectly fine) would be meaningless today.

There are some Germany experts here who can tell you where you can see towns of the same style without taking that specific bus trip. I'm sure one or more will provide information within a day or two.

Yikes - definitely make sure you have plenty of anti-nausea meds. It's a winding twisting slow-moving (not very romantic) road.

As the others implied, the intention of the "Romantic Road" designation is that the route links together several interesting towns, not that the road itself is particularly worth experiencing And it doesn't go through Munich, it runs significantly to the west, from Füssen to Würzburg.

The RR bus offers very little time in the towns it does stop in as it follows this not-so-scenic route. So it's mostly a long bus ride. It might be possible to break it up in 2 or 3 places by staying overnight and spending 24 hours in the towns you stop in , then depart on the next day's bus. But there are other ways to see most of the RR towns. Many can be seen by train. Use Augsburg as a base in the south for making train trips to the other RR towns in that area - Landsberg, Füssen, Nördlingen, Harburg, Donauwörth. Then travel to Würzburg by train and use W'burg as a base for visiting Rothenburg, Weikersheim, Bad Mergentheim, Tauberbischofsheim, and Wertheim.

If you use the above strategy you'll also find a whole lot of other towns you can visit that are equally or more interesting. Iphofen (scroll through photos) is 22 minutes from Würzburg. Bamberg is about 55 minutes. Bad Windsheim is a bit over one hour. Not all the great towns line up neatly along the Romantic Road!

You can locate the RR towns and the train lines that serve them from Würzburg and Augsburg using this map. (Bad Mergentheim and Weikersheim aren't shown - but they're just south of Lauda.)

Thanks once again for all your great advice. I definitely made up my mind not to take a bus up the romantic Rd. We are visiting lots of other scenic small towns so I think I'll get my fill without the long and windy road roads.

Describing the Romantic Road (B25) as sick inducing winding must be describing a different one to the one I have driven a few times. From the northern reaches to Augsburg in the south it is predominately straight and level or gently rolling. Few twists and turns as it crosses diagonal railway tracks or goes in and out of towns, but mostly straight. There is a tunnel towards the southern end.

It is easy by train from Munich - changing at Nürnberg, Ansbach and Steinach, about 2:30.

It is easy by train from Munich - changing at Nürnberg, Ansbach and
Steinach, about 2:30.

Here "it" means the trip from Munich to Rothenburg via Nürnberg with an ICE from Munich to Nürnberg. Change trains three times. Full fare for two people is 132€. With advance purchase the fare starts at 48€ for two with a SparPreis ticket.

Alternatively, you can go by regional trains, 2 changes, in Treuchtlingen, where it is usually a cross platform change, and the same quick change in Steinach as all train connections. That take about 45 minutes longer and the trip for two can be done after 9 AM with a Bayern-Ticket for 31€.

Although I wouldn't call the Romantic Road winding, like many a road through the Alps, I also wouldn't characterize is as straight and level, like a highway in Nebraska. It has it's share of curves and hills. I remember taking the local bus from Nördlingen to Dinkelsbühl. Every few miles we turned off the Romantic Road to go to a village a few km from the road. Once we came back to the Road and had to wait for a lorry with about 20 cars behind it to go by. I wondered then how all those drivers were enjoying their Romantic Road experience. Another time, while entering a small village, we got trapped in a no passing zone behind a tractor slowly pulling a farm wagon. It was quite a few minutes before we got to a place where the bus could pass.