Hotel Rübezahl in Schwangau, near the Neuschwanstein castle  

Day Trips

Many of our guests that book a room just for 1 night, regret it by checking out. They note that our region offer much more than our main attraction: The Neuschwanstein Castle.

Schwangau is the ideal point to set out from to explore Bavaria, Swabia and Austria. Zürich is not far away and it is only about 100 km to Munich, Augsburg and Innsbruck. Even upper Italy, from South Tyrol to Venice, can be reached in a few hours by car.

Someday a american guest gave me a good idea: "Why don't we write in our website some suggestions of day trips and how to take most advantage while the stay here"

Insider tips are generally valuable and helpfull and here is my effort to help you !         My future guest  ;-)

If you stay just one night, of course : visit the castles direct in our Village; Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau is a MUST ! You can visit both in 1 day !

And if you have a little bit more time, visit Füssen, our neighbour city (3 km) is a small and charming city with a medieval townscape. Enjoy the town's special charm while strolling though the town and taking a look at the shops at the "Reichenstrasse".

In Füssen is the nearest train station from our hotel !

Füssen

Starting at the hotel (after a elabourate breakfast buffet) visit first the Wies church (25 km) , then the "Passion play Village" of Oberammergau (45 km), then  the Ettal monastery (50 km).

After it, go to the third castle of King Ludwig II., the Linderhof (50 km), visit his park and groutte. After this highlight, you will pass through the border to Austria (you will not find a passport controll) and drive along  the beautiful lake Plansee. There you can stop a little bit and drink a coffee!  After this lake, go to Reutte and come back to Germany (direction Füssen/Schwangau).

You will be at our hotel in the late afternoon and can have a quiet evening and a great dinner after so many impressions !

Wieskirche

Following are day-trips that I recomend you if you decide to stay longer then 3 nights. Why not ?  I really would like to convince you ! You don't need to change many time the hotels...just let your baggage here and spend a great time !

Let's go !

Very interesting is a day-trip to Garmisch-Partenkirchen (60 km) and Zugspitze (Germany's highest  mountain). The way is easy ! We recomend you to go to the Zugspitze just by very good weather. From here its almost 3.000 meters high peak !

more:   Culture in Munich  

Golden Roof 

 this place you will find between Munich and Salzburg

Herrenchiemsee

This direction, bring you very near to the border from Switzerland and the city of Zurich (230 km)

Island of Mainau

At my opinion, you can't miss to visit 

the city of   Rothenburg ob der Tauber (250 km)

more informations about the Europa- Bus,  

that goes (not by winter time) every day through the Romantic road between Frankfurt airport to Füssen and back (as PDF-file)

Are you a sportsman ? Or a friend of the intact nature ?

Sports: Hiking, mountain biking, hang gliding, climbing, etc.

Nature:  the Alps, the 7 lakes in our region, Nature reserves, parks, etc.

Just relax and do something for your health !