Tubingen - Germany

We had a delightful lunch on the bank of the Neckar in Tuebingen, in Baden-Wuerttemberg, but we didn't stay there. That day we went on about an hour to the delightful fachwerk town of Herrenberg. We stayed at Pension Kirchgasse-1. Owner Karin Forster is a very gracious hostess. My wife was not feeling well, and Karin offered to fix her scrambled eggs for breakfast because that was what my wife felt she could keep down.

We also stopped in Herrenberg when we visited Burg Hohenzollern. It truly is a lovely little town and only a short distance from Tuebingen.

I don't know why she seemed so specific about staying in Tuebingen. Otherwise I would have mentioned Hechingen, for the Burg Hohenzollern or Freudenstadt, in the Black Forest.

Lizzy, I have been to Tübingen once, stayed a couple of nights in the city at Hotel am Schloss. Burgsteige 18...a very place then (August 1989), and would even be more so now. Very central as far as the location goes. I chose this place over the DJH hostel then.

The OP asked for suggestions for staying in Tübingen, so why are so many people, besides Fred, telling her to go someplace else? Why not give her suggestions for the city she wants to stay in? This is a perfectly lovely town and she wants to stay here.

Lizzy, We stayed in Tubingen four days two years ago at the Hotel Barbarina. It is at the top of Wilhelmstrasse, about fifteen or twenty minutes walk from the train and buss station. Tubingen is a university town and is fairly expensive. Our fare was 98 Euros a night including breakfast. The old town is a marvel to visit and as Tubingen is in Schwabia you may get a chance to try maultaschen. There are other hotels closer to the town center, but they will be more expensive. There is a tourist information center next to the Wilhelstrasse bridge over the river and they staff it with university students sometimes. They offer excellent help. Good luck.

Tübingen has it's own website, www.tuebingen.de. There's a link in the upper right corner for English, and a list of accommodations, most with websites and email addresses, under "Hotels" on the left or "Übernachten" if you are still on the German side.

In the end, I didn't have time to hit Tubingen last week, after my Black Forest visit. But I'd be interested to hear a report about the automobile "green" badge that's supposedly required to drive into the city: http://www.umwelt-plakette.de/int_england.php (I think this is a "shopping" site, not a government site.) My Hertz guy in Zurich said my car could go "anywhere in Germany" even though there was no sticker, but I didn't put this to the test.

We were just in Tuebingen a few weeks ago and stayed (for the second time) at the Hotel Hospiz. The location is great. Right next to the lovely Rathaus and town square. But we paid 115E for a double room which may be outside your budget. It is more than we usually pay for a hotel but I couldn't find anything else that met our requirements that was any cheaper.