Our first trip to Germany

Day
1. Arrive Berlin (3)
2. Berlin
3. Potsdam
4. Train to Bamberg (1)
5. Train to Munich (3)
6. Munich
7. Day to Garmisch/Fussen
8. Train to Rhine (2)
9. Rhine cruise
10. Train to Berlin

You are travelling almost every day, 8 cities in 9 days. That's time consuming & for most people very tiring. For such a short trip, I would concentrate on either the Berlin or Munich areas.

You are trying to accomplish way too much. Have you already booked your flight from Berlin to Munich on the third day? Check your driving times between the other locations you mentioned after Fussen, each one deserving of at least one week on their own.

Thank You all for your inputs.
We have not done any bookings yet. So totally open to all ideas.

One more option emerging is Skiing in Innsbruck (Hinter-tux). So that would mean we spend atleast 3 days there. So that would mean 2 Days in Berlin: 2 Munich: 3 days in Hintertux. Can we do all of these by train? How is the train connectivity between Munich and Hintertux? Do we need private transport for reaching Hintertux and the glaciers?

Regards,
Padma

You can learn something all the time, I never realised skiing slopes in Austria stayed open this late. Are you going in the next week or so? You can take no change trains from Berlin to Munich, and from Munich to Innsbruck. Hintertux looks close to Innsbruck but is somewhat of a quest to get to even by car. Try using www.rometorio.com

Why not fly into Berlin and out of Munich or vice versa depending on which has better flight times. Travelling almost everyday will be tiring and you won't have time to absorb the culture of the cities.

If you are traveling in May, the skiing in Germany and Austria may be only viable on glaciers, which can seriously reduce the enjoyability.

I have skied in Garmish, Innsbruck and Berchtesgaden around Christmas time and on occasion, the weather was too warm to ski at all or you had to spend a lot of time and money to go to a high altitude to ski on a glacier. You might consider skipping the skiing.

As for going from the Garmisch area to the Black Forest, that is a considerable distance and will take up much of your time.

There is a rail connection to Mayrhofen where you can get local buses to the Hintertux Glacier. Open for skiing into June.
http://www.hintertuxergletscher.at/en/home/

From Munich, train to Jenbach, Austria and then an hourly train to Mayrhofen at 7 past the hour and takes 50 minutes.

You are doing WAY too much for a pleasant or enjoyable trip.

Have you booked airfare yet?

Some options:
1.Concentrate on the Berlin area and you can see Potsdam. Also consider spending a day or two in Dresden via train. Fly in/out Berlin.

2.Concentrate on Munich/Bavaria, see Neuschwanstein, maybe Fussen, fly in/out Munich.

3.Fly into Berlin, see Berlin for four days (it's a HUGE city) - train to Munich for four days, fly out Munich. Or Fly back to Berlin for flight home.

You can't have it all. But you can come back!

Unless you are used to zig zag traveling in Germany by train, which is what I do, I would suggest dropping Füssen and Garmisch and the idea of adding the Black Forest. For the Berlin-Munich connection, there is also the EN night train option via Hannover (no more direct night connection, unfortunately) if you want to squeeze out another day. I would.