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Garmisch-Partenkirchen transport
Posted: Sat January 10, 2009 12:35 PM UTC
We have planned a holiday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and would like to visit Hohenschwangen to see the castle. How can we get there by train or bus?
jlsturner
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Sat January 10, 2009 12:57 PM UTC
http://www.hohenschwangau.de/545.0.html

Details of travelling to the castle shown on this site together with all other information for visitors ( on other pages)

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ranger49
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Sat January 10, 2009 01:03 PM UTC
The home page of Deutsche Bahn (German Railway) has info on both train and bus schedules:

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?ld=212.100&rt=1&newrequest=yes&

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Elena77
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Sat January 10, 2009 02:20 PM UTC
DB timetable
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
From: Garmisch-Partenkirchen
To: Hohenschwangau

The connections are however neither frequent nor fast (the buses stop at every milk can, by train it's a major detour). Also an option is to travel to Vils in Austria and from there by bus (again infrequent) or taxi. From Vils it's only a short hop to Füssen or Hohenschwangau. In summer you could also exit the train in Füssen-Ulrichsbrücke (one stop before Vils) and walk to Hohenschwangau/Neuschwanstein. An easy 2 hours walk (only 100 m altitude difference) on a walking path called Fürstenstrasse (dukes' road). Would be at least for one way an idea.

I'm pretty sure that there are also tour bus offers from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Hohenschwangau. Just visit the tourist office when there.

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abalada
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Sat January 10, 2009 08:09 PM UTC
While you are in Garmisch, you might also wish to visit the Ettal Monastery and Ludwig II's Linderhof Palace, which are both nearby. You can travel by bus to both from Garmisch. You can tour two castles, both Hohenschwangau, and Neuschwanstein, plus also the Wieskirche, in the Fuessen area. Gary

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lostsooner55
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Sat January 10, 2009 08:35 PM UTC
You can also travel to the top of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak, from Garmisch. The small towns of Oberammergau, and Mittenwald, are nearby, and might be of interest to you as well. For lodging, use the "GOOGLE" search engine, type in "Gaestehaus Kornmuller", then click on "translate this page" for an English language version of their web page. They have several lodgings in Garmisch. I could have stayed in the US recreation facilities while in Garmisch, but always chose these lodgings instead. For a more current bus schedule, you can contact the Garmisch tourism office. They also are very helpful with hotel and dining suggestions. Gary

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lostsooner55
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Sat January 10, 2009 09:49 PM UTC
Abalada is absolutely right. It is a major undertaking - but very scenic.

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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Mon January 12, 2009 08:37 AM UTC
There is a town bus from Garmisch but the tour offices "BlauWeiss reissen" offer tours to the castles and you would get taken enverywhere without having to worry about how to get there.
The town buses do stop frequently but the scenery is so pretty that I didn,t mind. There is only the 1 town bus each day in each direction to these Castles.

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margsch
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Wed January 14, 2009 02:51 PM UTC
The tour company is called either Blauweiss Reissen or Weissblau Reissen, but whatever, they have a great range of daytrips to all the major sights in Bavaria. They even had some into the north of Italy.

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margsch
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Re: transport
Posted: Wed January 14, 2009 08:31 PM UTC
This is the website:

http://www.weiss-blau-reisen.de/

It is Weiß-Blau because the Bavarian colours officially are Weiß and Blau and not Blau and Weiß LOL Really true!

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