We are hoping to rent a small campervan/motorhome this July/August for a 3-week portion of our monthlong trip to Germany. We fulltime live/travel in an Airstream in the US, and we know camping is different in Germany, but would like to explore the country that way as it would be on our schedule and we can stop when/where we want, not be stuck to hotels or train routes. We are planning on starting at a friend's house near Bremen, traveling down the western side of Germany, looping south over to Bavaria, north to Munich, and ending near Nuremberg/Grafenwohr (where another friend is stationed at the military base).
Questions:
1) How easy is it to find campsites, both paid and free? Are there designated campgrounds with water/electric/sewer? Are there campsites or spots in the woods with no amenities? Are there spots by the side of the road we can just sleep overnight?
2) Do we need reservations in advance, since that is peak tourist season? If so, how far in advance do we need to make them? OR, do you think we could just wing it and just find a place each night or to stay for a few nights? We'd prefer not to make too many advance plans so we can travel the country at our leisure and spend as much or little time someplace depending on what we find.
Here are some tentative main areas we'd like to stop, but totally open to suggestions based on where we'd be able to camp/sleep:
- Cologne
- Romantic Road?
- Stuttgart
- Rhine river cruise 1-2 day (St. Goar??)
- Black Forest National Park
- Freiburg im Breisgau
- Baden-Baden
- Titesee
- Neuschwanstein/Hohenschwangau
- Garmisch-Partinkirchen (Zugspitze)
- Munich
Thanks!!