Mail Coach Tours in Bavaria

Tour 1.1

Arrival: Make your own way from Munich (or take advantage of our optional transfer at additional cost) to our first hotel in the vicinity of Lake Starnberg. You can relax at the hotel "Kaiserin Elisabeth" in Feldafing(optional), named after the Austrian Empress Sissi who spent her holidays from the Vienna Imperial Court here for more than 20 years. Dinner on your own in the lovely dining room (optional).

Day 1: Included breakfast at the hotel before you are transferred at 09.30 am to the Coaching in Bavaria farm located between Lake Starnberg and Lake Ammersee where you will meet your coachman and guide. Departure from the farm is 10.00 am via antique mail-coach. We drive down to the Ammer Valley, later up to the hills along the river. Lunchbreak is in the small farm village of Eberfing at a post inn: no mass tourism, just good Bavarian food. After lunch the mail-coach drives through open farm land and later through endless forests closer and closer to the mountains. Around 06.00 pm we arrive at the Parkhotel in Bayersoien where we stay the night. Beautiful hotel, a wonderful view of the mountains, surrounded by moorland and fens. Dinner on your own in the hotel.

Day 2: 09.30 am departure of the mail-coach from Parkhotel; follow the old Roman Road, the "Via Claudia Augusta" to drive through the small town of Saulgrub. Soon we reach the so-called "King's Road", where King Ludwig II. used to hasten from one castles to the other, mostly after midnight. This road is nearly in the same condition as 120 years ago. Around noon we arrive at the Wies church, the most beautiful rococo church in Germany. Here we have lunch in the former residence of the church builder, Dominikus Zimmermann. After lunch through lonely mountain forests, across mountain pastures with grazing herds of cattle and horses. We come to the lakes of Forggensee and Bannwaldsee with both the royal castles always within our sight. Finally, both castles are towering high above our mail-coach. Around 06.00 pm we arrive in Hohenschwangau to overnight in the Hotel "Müller", (optional) with view of both castles. Dinner on your own in the hotel dining room with a lovely view of Neuschwanstein castle.

Departure: Opportunity to visit both castles this morning. On request we provide a transfer back to Munich around noon (castles-Munich: 2 hours, castles Munich airport: 2 ½ hours by car).