Travelling from Geneve to Southern Bavaria (4 - 7July, 09)

My husband %26amp; I (over 26) have from 4 - 6 July to travel from Geneve to Munich (must be in Munich 7 July). I would like advice on:

1) train routes and costs to get from Geneva - Füssen (ie cheapest / most scenic / interesting). Happy to look at combining with boat trip. Given the small time I would be keen to take train from Geneva straight across Switzerland and spend the time in Austria / southern Bavaria.

2) How could you travel/what is the cost from Geneva - Lindau (Bavaria)? I have tried to look at train information online, but no costing available. I thought if we made our way directly to Bavaria we could take advantage of the Bavaria ticket to travel(28Euro/day for both of us to travel).

3)The main thing I want to see is Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein. Would you recommend we base ourselves in Füssen for 3 nights (ie 4 - 6 July) or perhaps 2 nights in Füssen and could you suggest another great location

4) The other two destinations I was thinking about was Ruette %26amp; Innsbruck in Austria? Would appreciate any feedback, based on above commnents.

PS For this part of our trip the focus is on: castles (in tact, not in ruins), medieval villages, experiencing great local food, maybe a cable car, luge, mineral spa. (PS We are hotel or B%26amp;B people, rather than Hostel people)

Thankyou kindly for any assistance.

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Most scenic:

Golden Pass route Geneva - Montreux - Zweisimmen - Interlaken - Luzern

www.goldenpass.ch/GPL/main.asp?langue=e

Pre-Alpine Express Luzern - Romanshorn

www.voralpen-express.ch/index.php?TPL=10097

Ferry Romanshorn - Friedrichshafen

Cheapest:

Geneva - Basel

InterRegio Express (IRE) from Basel to Friedrichshafen

You can use the Baden-Württemberg Ticket (similar to the Bavaria Ticket) from Basel SBB to Friedrichshafen or Lindau.

Or, as the 4. July is a Saturday, the Happy-Weekend-Ticket from Basel Bad Bf to Füssen.

bahn.de/international/…swt.shtml

In Hohenschwangau where the castles are, there is also a luge at Tegelberg

http://www.tegelbergbahn.de/index.php?id=160

http://www.hohenschwangau.de

http://www.fuessen.de

You could stay 3 days in Füssen or proceed Füssen - Reutte - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Mittenwald (- Innsbruck - Mittenwald) Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Munich

http://www.garmisch-partenkirchen.de

http://www.mittenwald.de

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Thankyou for kindly for your prompt reply.

1) RE: Golden Pass - could you recommend which class of travel? (I noticed grom Geneve - Luzern was 87CHF %26amp; 1st class 144CHF)

2) Re: Alpine-Express www.voralpen-express.ch/index.php?TPL=10097 - still checking for the English version, however, map looks great.

3) Will read up a bit more about the Happy-Weekend-Ticket. Thankyou kindly.

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Could you please tell me if I am reading the Golden Pass Rail timetable correctly? Eg Departs Geneve 10:36 and Arrives 17:10 Luzern?

www.goldenpass.ch/GPS/voyages/hor2009gpl.pdf

If so, might I be pushing it timewise to then try to go through to Fussen from Geneva in one day if going via Golden Pass rail? If so, where would you recommend would be a nice place to sty overnight? This would then mean I would do 2 nights in Füssen.

Thankyou for your assistance

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1) 2nd class is really OK

2) until their last redesign their complete homepage was in German and English

It%26#39;s indeed a rather long trip.

You could stay in Lucerne, Friedrichshafen or Lindau.

Lucerne

http://www.luzern.org/en/welcome.cfm?

Friedrichshafen (another site where English disappeared with the last redisgnI

http://www.friedrichshafen.info/

Lindau

http://web20.icserver3.de/index.php?sid=1027

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Thankyou kindly, now I don%26#39;t feel as if I%26#39;m going quite so mad.

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Well Wee Poss I hope you have got all the information you need and you get to see as many castles as you want before you meet your other company!

Did you get the answer to the question where do you buy the bavarian shorts for your husband?

There is a good store in Munich.

OLOL!!

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