My husband and I ( 60 years young) would like to go to Germany at the beginning of December. We would like to be in Germany for 2 weeks and stay in at least 3 city/villages for their Christmas Markets. I don’t want to rent a car but travel by train. Any suggestions? Also what would be a good airport to fly into and depart from. We would be flying out of Los Angeles.
Thank you.
Kim
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Alsenborn, Germany
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You need to make some decisions very quickly, as most of the hotels in cities with popular markets are already selling out. I would fly into either Paris or Frankfurt, and possibly fly out the other. I recommend these as there are direct flights from LAX to both.
Around Frankfurt you have a number of good markets, large to small. If you then go to Wurzburg you have Bamberg, Bayreuth, and Nuremburg all within a short riding distance (by train). You could easily then go to Heidelberg and from there do Speyer, Neustadt, Stuttgart and all the other markets in this area. And Paris gives you access to the markets there and other close destinations like Reims, and even some slightly further out, like Strasbourg.