Hi
Me, my wife and our lillte daughter would be stopping over in Frankfurt for 3 days/nights. Could anybody help us in a brief iternary for these days to make the most out of it. This is our first trip to Germany. We are ok with day trips if possible to Hiedelberg and Stutgart.
Thanks
SidB
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Stuttgart is a very nice city to live in, but there are better day trip destinations. I would recommend looking at Speyer and/or Worms - both have huge Romanesque cathedrals, over 1000 years old - many old German emperor tombs etc. Speyer also has a huge technology museum with lots of old and not so old planes, trains, boats, cars...
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Thanks Altmiro.
1. Would you suggest places in Frankfurt?
2. Would you recommend us renting a car or travel by train or any other means?
3. Would you recommend staying near the airport or Frankfurt City? We are flying into FRA. What would be the best means to get to the city?
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Unless you want to visit the excellent Mercedes Benz museum, I would not make a day trip to Stuttgart from Frankfurt because you should really spend more time to see things there and nearby, and it probably is fairly expensive by train and too long of a trip by car. I think that Heidelberg and the Rhine betweem Rudesheim and Koblenz would give you two nice day trips. The latter can be done by boat in season and return by train. A trip on the Neckar at Heidelberg is also nice. I would definitely not stay by the Frankfurt airport. Why not stay in central Frankfurt, or go in the other direction by S-bahn to Mainz or Wiesbaden, where in either direction there is more to see and do?
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%26gt;1. Would you suggest places in Frankfurt?
Sorry, I don%26#39;t know Frankfurt good enough to recommend anything. I regularly pass Frankfiurt but only once or twice got ut there (other than to to change trains).
%26gt;2. Would you recommend us renting a car or travel by train or any other means?
A car does not make sense in this regard. You are going to visit cities, not countryside... For schedules look at www.bahn.de or www.rmv.de (local transport in and around Frankfurt)
%26gt;3. Would you recommend staying near the airport or Frankfurt City?
Definitely in the city. I never understood what is the appeal of staying near the airport unless you have a 6:00 flight in the morning (many ask this question). The city is just about 12-15 min by S-Bahn (suburban train) lines S8 and S9.
Mind that the airport has two train stations, a local ones (which you need to get to Frankfurt) and a long-distance train station where ICE%26#39;s from and to Cologne, Munich etc. stop.
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It is not a must to stay in Frankfurt. As you%26#39;re from Chicago Frankfurt is not that interesting. Frankfurt, which has the most and highest skyscrapers in Europe, is not that typical for Germany.
You could e.g. stay in Mainz.
mainz.de/WGAPublisher/…hpkr-5nkgnz.en.html
Approx. 25-30 min by S-Bahn or local trains from Frankfurt Airport, which is between Mainz and Frankfurt.
Or you can stay in Heidelberg. Approx. 50 min by train from Frankfurt airport. Heidelberg is however really touristy.
http://www.cvb-heidelberg.de/index_eng.html
You could also stay in Mannheim. The main railway knot near Heidelberg . Approx. 15 min from Heidelberg. And 30 min from Frankfurt Airport (by ICE highspeed trains - it is not as close as Mainz).
http://www.tourist-mannheim.de/
Both cities are inside the VRN local public transport network
vrn.de/IMAGES/…vrn_tarifgebiet.jpg
You can buy a 24 hours mini group ticket covering e.g. Mannheim and Heidelberg (EUR 13,50) or the whole VRN area (EUR 18,50).
If bought on a Saturday such a ticket is even valid till Monday 3am.
You can use all local trains (S-Bahn, RB, RE), buses and the trams in the bigger cities with the above VRN tickets.
Speyer is also in the VRN area, approx. 30 min from Mannheim.
www.speyer.de/de/tourist/sehenswert…
http://www.technik-museum.de/uk/speyer/
Speyer is far less touristic than Heidelberg, despite Speyer cathedral being a UNESCO world heritage and the historically more important place.
Than there is the Neckar valley with its castles, e.g. the 4 at Neckarsteinach
www.burgenstrasse.de/showpage.php…
Again in the VRN area. Served by the S-Bahn lines S1 and S2 (~ 40 min from Mannheim).
A really cute small medieaval town is Ladenburg between Mannheim and Heidelberg. Actually Ladenburg is much older than its big neighbours. It was already settled by the Romans.
www.ladenburg.de/index.php…
Ladenburg is also the hometown of Carl Benz (the Benz in Mercedes-Benz). There is a small museum in his old garage/factory.
http://www.automuseum-dr-carl-benz.de/
Despite being so close to the %26quot;tourist autobahn%26quot; (= Heidelberg), Ladenburg is definitly an off the beaten path destination.
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With the ICE trains you can make it to Stuttgart from Mannheim in 35 minutes.
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