Hi friends! Please help my husband and I from the arguments and stress we are experiencing with a flight under a week away and itinerary not completed and rooms not booked! Here's how it looks:
Sun evening - Frankfurt, stay night as flight lands at 5:30pm (already booked)
Monday - stay a day in Frankfurt and one more night? Or, get on going towards the Rhine & Mosel valleys..then...
Mon-Thu - 3 nights in Mosel Valley (too many?)
Thu-Sat - 2 nights Luxembourg City (husband really wants to go here)
Sat-Mom - 2 nights Belgium (somewhere...Brugge? Antwerp? Brussels?)
*The proposed schedule has us for 5 nights in Mosel & Lux, Which only leaves us 2 nights in Belgium. Our final 3 nights are in Amsterdam (already booked). It's those middle 7 nights we are debating on. I think Belgium needs more than 2 nights. (Does it?)
I am welcoming any insight you have into our 7 Germany-Luxembourg-Belgium days. Thank you!
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
32746 posts
If you stay the first day (good for jetlag) in Frankfurt I strongly suggest taking a walking tour with Ms Jo's Frankfurt on Foot. https://www.frankfurtonfoot.com/ She offers either a show up and go walking tour at 10:30 starting in the old town area or a private tour of a really vibrant and interesting city. The newest building restorations in the old city are very well worth seeing, as is the riverside. I recommend them highly.
Ms Jo is a regular contributor here and her knowledge of the Frankfurt area is comprehensive.
Posted by
Paradise
6637 posts
Are you driving?
To see and do things in the Rhine AND Mosel valleys, 3 nights is really a MINIMUM.
Mon, Tue nights: book in St. Goar or Boppard and visit/tour Rhine places nearby (Bacharach, Oberwesel, Rheinfels Castle, Marksburg Castle in Braubach, Rüdesheim, Rhine cruise from Bingen back to your base town. St. Goar has the most scenic setting of all the Rhine towns. Boppard is the liveliest town with the widest choice of hotels and restaurants. They are only several minutes from each other by train or by car.
Note that it is possible to catch a train from Frankfurt to Rüdesheim (or Bingen) and cruise from there to your town. If Rüdesheim is on your list, this is a better method than backtracking to R'heim later.
Map: http://www.mittelrhein-wein.com/Bilder/rheinlauf-gross.jpg
Wed, Thu nights: book in Trier, plan to arrive late Wed. Full day Thu in Trier (UNESCO World Heritage sites, Roman History.) On Wed you have MANY good choices on the Mosel... Look into Burg Eltz, Cochem, Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel.
Alternatively... Skip Trier if Roman history just doesn't interest you. Book 2 nights in Cochem or one of the other towns depending on your interests and whether you are driving or using the train.
Fri night: One day and night in Luxembourg
Sat-Sun nights: Book 2 nights in Bruges if you can; visit Gent and/or Antwerp on the way to Amsterdam.
I would not spend a 2nd night in Frankfurt. Your ground journey is already too hectic, and that would make it even more so.