Freising, Erding or Landshut

"May I ask why you selected Freising to begin with and did you travel beyond this area following your stay? We are thinking of driving from here to Regensburg for a night and then on to Rothenburg."

We were ending our trip. We were in Regensburg and Rothenburg before going to Freising, both really enjoyable places. Regensburg has become one of my favorites in Germany.

We learned of Freising from a message on one of the boards. We checked out its website. We like to visit some places that are not full of tourists. Freising seemed like a good bet and it was.

Regards, Gary

We have stayed in Freising twice at the Hotel zur Gred.

http://www.freising.de/

http://www.hotelzurgred.de/

We arrived by train but the hotel had limited parking. The Hotel zur Gred is more of an old fashion Gasthof with a decent restaurant. It does not have an elevator. It is only 3-4 blocks from the town square. If your trip coincides with Oktoberfest, zur Gred and other hotels in Freising may already be booked.

Freising has a nice old town square, the oldest active brewery in the world and an interesting monastery just above the town on a hill (Domberg). The current Pope was ordained at the Domberg. Perhaps most of all I like that Freising is criss-crossed with small streams from merging rivers, making for very pleasant walks.

We also liked a meal that we had at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in the town center.

Regards, Gary

Gary,

Thank you very much, it sounds like a delightful place.

May I ask why you selected Freising to begin with and did you travel beyond this area following your stay? We are thinking of driving from here to Regensburg for a night and then on to Rothenburg.

Al

We also stayed in Freising and Hotel zur Gred. It was very convenient, only a quick bus ride from town to the airport. You may just want to drop your car and bus into town (15 min?). It is a quaint little village and we enjoyed our one night stay. Hotel zur Gred was ok. Older hotel, smelled like they had smoked in it, yet our room was clean and nice, and good breakfast. Honestly, I'm not sure if I would stay there again because I reserved a bed with private bath, then when we arrived he said the private baths were taken. I reserved and reconfirmed our reservation twice and still didn't get the private bath. The bath was way down the hall. Other than that though, I was pleasantly surprised after my initial fear of cigarette smoke and just being an old place. Liked Freising a lot. Chose that location because it was so easy to bus to the airport.
Have a great trip!

I have never stayed in Freising, but I did visit the brewery there once. However, I know a few things about it.

Freising is close to the airport. They quickest way is by bus, although you can use the S-Bahn through Neufahrn.

You can take regional trains or the S-Bahn into Munich using MVV single-trip and day tickets.

It is also on the main line headed north out of Munich to Regensburg or Prague.

The nice thing about staying in Freising is that you can avoid the expense and hassle of a car.