We will be in germany for 2 weeks this September and will arrive in Frankfurt late on Saturday eve. Will sack out there for the night but plan to train out the next day. Want to stay in Bamburg or near there, any suggestions?
Budget for lodging in under $100 a night. Like smaller, cozy towns and accommodations, so not sure where to start?
Or if someone has done this area with a better place to base out of I am open for suggestions. Allotted a few days from Frankfurt to Munich.
Posted by
Boise, ID, USA
2298 posts
We stayed in Bamberg, in a B&B found on bed-and-breakfast.de. It was a number of years ago, but I really liked that website.
Posted by
Danville, VT
12040 posts
Are you looking for one base, or a few? What do you plan to see and visit? Bamberg is as good a base as any for exploring Franconia, but wouldn't make much sense if you wanted to see a lot of stuff in Upper Bavaria, or Swabia, for example.
Posted by
Paradise
7059 posts
"Like smaller, cozy towns and accommodations"
Bamberg is a city of some size, not a small, cozy town.
I've twice used Neustadt-an-der-Aisch as a base town and rented apartments there on two separate occasions.
Neustadt's old town wall with Nuremberg Tower
VERY easy to do daytrips by train from there to Würzburg, Nuremberg, Rothenburg, Bayreuth (opera house, Maisels Brewery,) Bad Windsheim (fantastic open air museum,) and Iphofen (adorable walled town and wine/artists village.) Daytrips are about 17€/day for two using an area daypass on local trains called the "Tagesticket Plus" to all these places except Würzburg. Use the Bayern ticket for W'burg (27€.) Had a small studio place next to the old town wall for 20€/night this last time:
Previously stayed at Fewo Beck on the far edge of town some distance from the train station, 28€/night.
There are many other places you might stay in Neustadt.
Home Away apartment next to the old town wall (just like my Privatzimmer above.)
Posted by
OP
30 posts
Thanks, great suggestions, back to the travel books. I guess what I was trying to ask was for a 3-4 day stay with plans to see the romantic road, is there a better location to base out of to make day trips in that area easy by train?
We plan to move south to salzburg after that, then south to slovenia and italy to round out our month.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19274 posts
A lot of the Romantic Road (Weikersheim to Rothenburg, Rothenburg to Nördlingen, Landsberg to Füssen) is not accessible by train, but there are buses.
Rothenburg is probably the most important stop on the Road, and it is accesssibe by train from Würzburg or Nürnberg.
If you stay in Würzburg for a few days, you can visit Bamberg and Rothenburg.
Nördlingen is also a good base, interesting by itself, accessible by train, and with easy access by bus to Dinkelsbühl and by train to Harburg and Donauwörth.