We've narrowed down the trip to Krakow, Prague, Salsburg & Munich which I'm using FF points for. The challenge of Krakow to Prague is frustrating as many know, but have discovered we can fly to Krakow, tour there, fly to Munich, do a loop tour from there & fly home from Munich at the end of the trip with no extra pts. We can't fly from Prague without extra points so that's out of the question. Now finding this out it changes how we should proceed with an itinerary & would appreciate comments. We were planning on day trips out to see the area around Neuschwanstein Castle & around Rothenburg, Nuremburg area. In Salsburg we wanted to do day trips as well. With going to Prague we are now looking at a loop trip so would like some suggestions on how to best spread this out over 11 or 12 nights. At the moment I'm thinking: Krakow - 3 nights / Fly to Munich (arrive 8am) & head to Salsburg – 2 nights /
Prague – 3 nights / Munich – 3 nights. Any sense of maybe staying in Nuremburg 1 night or Fussen 1 night? Trip is end of May. Thanks everyone.
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Fuessen is definitely worth a night. You can do Fuessen as a day trip by train using a €29 Bayern-Ticket, but during the week you can't leave Munich before 9 AM so you'll get to the castle kiosk around noon. (Actually you can leave Munich on the 8:51 if you buy local tickets to Geltendorf) Getting to Hohenschwangau that late isn't bad if all you want to do is see Neuschwanstein, but it's a little rushed for both castles. So, it might be nice to come out in the evening and stay the night, see both castles and the town, the next day. For Rothenburg Nuernberg area, I would definitely want to stay the night in Rothenburg. But now you only have 1 night in Munich. That's not enough. I would take one night from Salzburg and add it to Munich. In 2002, we went by train from Munich to Salzburg, arriving just before lunch in Salzburg. After finding Maribelle Palace and the do-re-mi steps, we walked to the Altstadt and had lunch. Then we took the incline up to the Fortress. We came down the front of the fortress mount and walked around to see the Abbey where Marie taught. After that we walked to the station and went back to Munich for a late dinner. If you stay overnight in Salzburg, you will have plenty of time to see everything important before taking the train to Munich that evening.