I am traveling to Germany next month with my husband and our two small children (young toddler and an 8-year-old). We are traveling with a rental car and staying in some cities with my husband's family and friends. But, for other blocks of the trip, we will be traveling alone with just us and our two kids. My husband made reservations with Legoland for a couple days but wishes to go reservation-free the rest of the trip that we are just traveling with our little family so we don't have to worry about where we end up and for how long. The flexibility sounds wonderful, but I'm terrified we will end up with nowhere to stay. It looks like it is hard to find family-size rooms in hotels. My small toddler shares a bed with us at home and would have a hard time if my husband and I had to split up in different rooms. I see I can book "free cancellation" rooms online, but the rates are higher. Should I do it anyway? Or am I being foolish and it will be easy to find rooms with the kids in tow? Here are the cities I expect we will be needing accommodations:
Hamburg - for a night during the week
Berlin - two or three nights during the week
Somewhere between Berlin and Munich - one night
Munich - a night or two during the week
Memmingen - three nights over a weekend
Somewhere along the Rhine river for four or five nights (Bacharach, Koblenz, Bonn, or somewhere) - over a weekend and a few weekdays