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any info? Bavarian + Austrian Alps

  • 15-02-2012 11:55am
    #1
    mum2be
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭


    Hi, I've narrowed our destination Bavarian + Austrian Alps. Just wondering if anyone has been here and where would be a good place to base ourselves. Will be travelling with hubby and 1yr old baby, renting a car and we don't mind moving once or twice during our stay. Haven't bought a guide book yet and it's difficult to actually find this info online so that's why I'm putting question out here. Thanks.


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  • #2
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    with a 1 year old I'd strongly recommend self catering apartments.
    That way you can put down the child at 7 or whenever bedtime is and yourself and the other half chill out on the balcony with a bottle of wine ;-)

    A place where we stayed (with our 9 month old at the time) was oberaudorf in the foothills of the alps in this place.
    http://www.ferienwohnanlage.de/index_en.html

    Its no distance from munich, i.e. 1h17min from Munich airport http://maps.google.de/maps?q=munich+airport+nach+oberaudorf&saddr=munich+airport&daddr=oberaudorf&hl=de&ll=48.016568,11.90506&spn=0.73948,1.783905&geocode=Fb3Q4QIdKsSzACGKpxD5RFIreQ%3BFV4a1wIdJ7C5ACmdOc4aQjt2RzGQqDcJpCUdBA&t=m&z=10

    and unlike most self catering, they arent restricted to saturday to saturday stays like nearly every other place we checked was.
    Prices also relatively cheap especially compared to what youd pay for a suite in a hotel with separate bedroom and living quarters.

    As for what to do, theres not a fiece amount you can do with a 1 year old but one thing that worked for us was a trip up the nearby mountain
    http://www.wendelsteinbahn.de/bergbahnen/international/englisch.php

    you can also take drives in the mountains nearby and visit the lovely villages.

    not to mention take a train or drive into munich for a potter about one of the days. Personally I'd just take the train as then theres no hassle with parking in town or traffic jams on the poxy A8.
    A "Bayern ticket" is a special offer which is valid after 9am and does the regional trains in bavaria and all city transport in munich for 29euro for up to 5 adults.


  • #3
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    its quite a big area with plenty of different towns/areas you could visit

    zell am see is lovely about half way between innsbruck and salzburg, the drive up to Großglockner (austrias tallest mountain) is spectacular from zell


  • #4
    mum2be
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭mum2be


    Thanks for your recommendations and advice. Will definitely get an apartment. Both places look lovely. Going to book flights and car hire now, roll on the summer!


  • #5
    Winters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    My brother and I visited Berchtesgaden for some war history and though it was great, also Konigsee was pretty cool. I would recommend going up the Jenner by cable car and have a nice hot chocolate up the top. The salt mines in Berchtesgaden are very interesting too.

    Salzburg is also a nice place to visit. We got the train from Munich to Berchtesgaden and Salzburg. Konigsee is just a short bus ride from Berchtesgaden Hbf.


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