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12 Sep

Saturday · arrival + big night 🌙

◖NachtBerlin · ABION Spreebogen ✓

▣Fahrt0 km · no rental today

Berlin — arrival.

Afternoon arrivals at BER. Train in, drop bags at the ABION Spreebogen (Alt-Moabit 99), group dinner in Mitte. Berghain Klubnacht runs Sat midnight → Mon 08:00.

ArrivalsWaves land at BER

Afternoon waves into BER: RDU 1:10 PM · SEA Icelandair 1:10 PM · SEA SAS 1:55 PM · SEA Finnair 5:20 PM.

TransferTrain in, drop bags at the ABION

FEX (Flughafenexpress) train BER → Berlin Hbf (~30 min, €4.40) or a pre-booked Berlkönig van for the crew. From Hbf it's 1.6 km / ~13 min on foot to ABION Spreebogen Waterside, Alt-Moabit 99 — or one S-Bahn stop to Bellevue, then 5 min. (S9 also runs BER → Bellevue direct if you'd rather skip the FEX change.)

EveningGroup dinner, Mitte

Group dinner in Mitte — pick a classic German spot: Zur letzten Instanz, Lutter & Wegner, or Augustiner am Gendarmenmarkt.

Late 🌙Big Berlin night out

Sisyphos open-air sprawl · Tresor techno basement (Sat only) · Watergate Spree views (Sat only) · Berghain dress code + stamina. Core group ends 02:00.

🚂 ICE 9 · Sun 17:34

Berlin→Hamburg 17:34 → 19:19 · 1h 45m direct Sparpreis 6 weeks out · seat reservations for one Wagen

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13 Sep

Sun · 🚂 walk + evening train

◖NachtHamburg · Citadines Michel ✓ (1 of 2)

▣Fahrt0 km · walk + ICE train

Berlin walk → ICE to Hamburg.

Brunch, then the Berlin walk loop — Brandenburg Gate, Tiergarten, East Side Gallery, Currywurst. Evening ICE 9 to Hamburg. Citadines Michel check-in ~20:00, dinner.

10:30Slow wake

Slow wake, hydrate.

11:30Recovery brunch

Recovery brunch — Katz Orange (Mitte), Café Berio (Nollendorfplatz), or Anna Blume (Prenzlauer Berg).

13:00Check out, stash bags

Check out of the ABION and carry bags the 1.6 km to Berlin Hbf lockers (Gepäckaufbewahrung, €6/day). Stash them there, not at the hotel — the walk loop ends back at Hbf and the ICE leaves from Hbf, so hotel storage means a 26-min round-trip detour to collect.

14:00Brandenburg Gate

Brandenburg Gate — photos, 15 min.

14:20Tiergarten walk

Walk through Tiergarten — Reichstag with Norman Foster glass dome visible.

14:45Siegessäule

Siegessäule (Victory Column) quick photo.

15:10U-Bahn east

U-Bahn from Zoologischer Garten → Warschauer Straße (~20 min).

15:35East Side Gallery

East Side Gallery — 1.3 km painted Berlin Wall (Kissing Brezhnev/Honecker, Trabant crash).

16:15Currywurst break

Currywurst at Curry 36 near Warschauer Straße.

16:40Back to Hbf, grab bags

U-Bahn back to Berlin Hbf. Collect bags.

17:34ICE 9 to Hamburg

🚂 ICE 9 Berlin → Hamburg Hbf · 1h 45m direct · the crew, one Wagen.

19:19Into Hamburg → Citadines

Arrive Hamburg Hbf. Walk / U-Bahn to Citadines Michel (Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 7).

20:00Check in, freshen up

Check in. Freshen up.

20:45Dinner on the Kiez

Dinner St. Pauli — Old Commercial Room, Bullerei, or Salt & Silver.

23:00Early bed

Bed.

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14 Sep

Mon · 🌙 full Hamburg day + Reeperbahn

◖NachtHamburg · Citadines Michel ✓ (2 of 2)

▣Fahrt0 km · full Hamburg day

Hamburg — full day.

Miniatur Wunderland at opening, lunch in Speicherstadt, HafenCity walk, Elbphilharmonie interior tour, Alster. Reeperbahn night on the Kiez.

🌅 08:00Wake, café breakfast

Breakfast at a St. Pauli café.

10:00Miniatur Wunderland

Miniatur Wunderland (~2h, book ahead) — biggest model railway on earth.

12:30Lunch, Speicherstadt

Lunch in Speicherstadt area.

13:00HafenCity walk

HafenCity + Speicherstadt walk — UNESCO red-brick warehouse district.

14:00Elbphilharmonie tour

Elbphilharmonie interior tour (book ahead — the concert hall).

15:30Plaza deck views

Elbphilharmonie Plaza deck for daytime harbour views.

16:00Alster / the Michel

Alster lake stroll or St. Michael's Church tower.

18:00Rest up

Rest at the Citadines.

19:30Dinner

Dinner Salt & Silver, Bullerei, or Old Commercial Room.

Late 🌙Big Reeperbahn night

BIG REEPERBAHN NIGHT · Indra Club (Beatles 1960 basement) · Mojo Club (jazz/funk, book table) · Molotow (indie/rock) · Hamburger Berg pub crawl · 04:00 Davidwache curry sausage closer.

Transfer · Autostadt ⚙

Hamburg→Köln ~600 km · 6h Sixt Stresemannstr. 364 08:30 pickup · east to Wolfsburg for Autostadt · then the long run southwest on the A2 → A44/A1

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15 Sep

Tue · ⚙ Autostadt + autobahn

◖NachtKöln · KONCEPT Hotel International ✓

▣Fahrt~600 km · 6h behind the wheel

Hamburg → Autostadt → Köln.

Sixt pickup at Stresemannstr. 364, 08:30 — booked Audi A6 Estate; 2nd wagon from Hamburg City Centre at 09:00. Both booked ✓. East to Wolfsburg, 222 km, for Autostadt: VW's car city, €21 a head, the ZeitHaus museum and the glass delivery towers. Then the long run southwest to Cologne, 379 km. One sober DD per wagon. Into the Altstadt around 19:00 — an actual evening, not a midnight collapse.

07:45Early wake

Wake at Citadines Michel, quick breakfast, load out.

08:30Pick up the wagons

Pick up the booked Audi A6 Estate at Sixt Stresemannstr. 364. 2nd wagon booked ✓ — pickup Hamburg City Centre, 09:00; both return at Munich Hbf Thu 17, 21:00.

09:00East to Wolfsburg

A7 → A39 east to Wolfsburg — 222 km, ~2h20. One sober DD per wagon.

11:30–15:00Autostadt ⚙

⚙ Autostadt, Wolfsburg — Volkswagen's car city beside the plant. The ZeitHaus automotive museum, the two 48 m glass delivery towers, and the brand pavilions (Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Audi). €21 adult — book online ahead for a party of 8. Allow 3–4h including lunch on site.

15:00Southwest to Cologne

Depart Wolfsburg — A2 → A44/A1 southwest, 379 km, ~3h50. One fuel + coffee stop. DDs stay dry.

~19:00Into Köln

Arrive Cologne. Drop bags at KONCEPT Hotel International, 13 Blaubach — booked ✓, self check-in, window closes 00:00. Wagons into the Waidmarkt garage 300 m away, entrance at Blaubach 1.

20:00Brauhaus dinner

Kölsch in 0.2L stangen, and they keep coming until you put the beer mat on the glass. Früh am Dom, Päffgen, or Gaffel am Dom.

Transfer · Ring day 🏁

Köln→Brauneberg ~240 km · 4h via the Nürburgring (90 km) · Burg Eltz (Wierschem) · Weingut Gehlen-Cornelius ✓

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16 Sep

Wed · 🏁 the Ring, then 🍷 the Moselle

◖NachtBrauneberg · Weingut Gehlen-Cornelius ✓

▣Fahrt~240 km · Ring + Moselle

Nürburgring — then the Moselle.

Late brunch in Cologne, then 96 km south to the Nürburgring. Wednesday is an Industry Pool day: the Nordschleife belongs to the manufacturers from 09:00 to 18:00, which is exactly the point — camouflaged prototypes on test, watched from Brünnchen. Nobody in the crew is driving. Pistenklause lunch, then Burg Eltz and on to the winery at Brauneberg.

09:30Brunch, Cologne

Late brunch — Belgian Quarter or Rheinauhafen. Check out, load up.

10:30South to the Eifel

Depart Cologne — 96 km, ~1h20 south on the A61/B258 into the Eifel.

12:00Pistenklause lunch

Pistenklause, Kirchweg 4, Nürburg — book the table: +49 2691 30188. The post-Ring institution: walls of racing-driver signatures, Sabine Schmitz memorabilia, steak on a hot stone. Now a lunch, not a dinner — the winery has Wednesday evening.

13:15Brünnchen — prototype spotting 🏁

🏁 Industry Pool. The Nordschleife is closed to the public today and belongs to the manufacturers, 09:00–18:00 — so what comes past is camouflaged prototypes on test, not tourists. Brünnchen is the classic public bank: two rights and a short straight, free, and you hear them long before you see them. Note the I-Pool is not a spectator event — photography is officially not allowed, and the viewing spots are informal.

14:00ring°boulevard + Burg Nürburg

Walk the ring°boulevard at the GP circuit. Then Burg Nürburg — the 12th-century castle the track is named after, straight up the hill above it, with the best view in the Eifel. Note: ring°werk is closed — it shut in Feb 2026 for a full rebuild with no reopening date.

14:45On to Burg Eltz

Depart Nürburg — 49 km, ~1h10 east toward the Mosel.

~16:00Burg Eltz

Burg Eltz — park at Wierschem, walk down through the woods. 40-min tour, then the photo loop from the bridge. Owned by the same family for 850 years and never destroyed.

17:00South to the Moselle

Depart Burg Eltz — 96 km, ~1h30 upriver to Brauneberg.

~18:30Arrive the winery

Arrive Weingut Gehlen-Cornelius, Weingartenstraße 33, Brauneberg ✓. Check in — balconies, in-room wine fridge.

EveningDinner at the winery

🍷 Tasting, then dinner on site. No DD needed — sleep where you drink.

Transfer · longest day

Brauneberg→München ~740 km · 8h A48 → A61 → A6 → A8 via Stuttgart · via Neuschwanstein (exterior only) · drop wagons Sixt Arnulfstr. 16/18

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17 Sep

Thu · ⚡ longest drive

◖NachtMünchen · Eden Hotel Wolff ✓

▣Fahrt~640 + 120 km · ~8h

Brauneberg → Neuschwanstein → Munich.

06:30 depart south. One sober DD per wagon. Neuschwanstein exterior only — shuttle up, Marienbrücke, courtyard. No interior tour, no ticket to book. Munich by ~17:00, drop the wagons at Sixt Arnulfstr. 16/18 beside Eden. Hofbräuhaus dinner.

AMQuick castle view, pack

Quick vineyard morning at Weingut Gehlen-Cornelius. Pack up, load the wagons.

06:30Early autobahn start

Early departure. A48 → A61 → A6 → A8. One sober DD per wagon. One fuel + coffee stop, no long lunch — quick bite in Hohenschwangau village instead.

~12:30Neuschwanstein — exterior only

Arrive Hohenschwangau village below Neuschwanstein (~640 km · ~6h). Quick bite at a village Imbiss, shuttle up · Marienbrücke · courtyard · exterior. No interior tour, no ticket to book. Then walk back down.

~14:30Back to the cars

Back at the cars. Drive Munich via A7/B17/A96 (120 km, ~2h).

~17:00Into Munich → drop wagon → Eden

Arrive Munich. Drop the wagons at Sixt Arnulfstr. 16/18 — right beside Eden Hotel Wolff (Arnulfstr. 4). Sixt return due 21:00. Walk next door to Eden Hotel Wolff, Arnulfstr. 4 (same street as the Sixt drop). Check in.

AlexAlex lands, waits at Eden

Lands MUC 14:10 — ~3h before the cars arrive ~17:00. Drops bags at Eden and waits; joins the crew for dinner.

DinnerHofbräuhaus, early bed

Hofbräuhaus walk-in for the crew, or Augustiner-Keller.

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18 Sep

Fri · 🕯️ Dachau + Munich

◖NachtMünchen · Eden Hotel Wolff ✓

▣Fahrt0 km · S2 to Dachau + Munich

Dachau memorial + Munich — city afternoon.

Breakfast at Eden, walk to Hbf for the 09:00 S2 to Dachau. 11:00 English guided tour, 2.5h — ~4h at the site. Back to Munich ~14:20: Viktualienmarkt lunch, Marienplatz, Englischer Garten and the Eisbach surfers, Chinesischer Turm biergarten. Hofbräukeller dinner.

08:15Breakfast, room held

Breakfast at Eden Hotel Wolff. No checkout — the room is held through Saturday morning.

08:45Walk to Hbf

Walk across to Munich Hbf (Eden sits on the north face of the station).

09:00S2 to Dachau

S2 train to Dachau station (~25 min). Bus 726 or 15-min walk from station to memorial.

09:35–13:30Dachau memorial 🕯️

🕯️ KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau — first Nazi concentration camp (1933), template for the SS system. Documentation Center + intro film · Jourhaus gate ("Arbeit macht frei") · Appellplatz · reconstructed barracks · crematorium. 11:00 English guided tour recommended (€4, 2.5h, ends 13:30 — better than self-guided).

13:45Train back to Munich

S2 back to Munich. ~14:20 arrive Hbf.

14:30Viktualienmarkt

Viktualienmarkt — wurst stall + a Maß at the market beer garden.

15:30Marienplatz

Marienplatz walk-around. 17:00 Glockenspiel if the timing suits.

16:15Englischer Garten

Walk to Englischer Garten — Eisbach surfers at the bridge near Haus der Kunst.

17:00Chinesischer Turm biergarten

Chinesischer Turm biergarten — Maß + Brez'n + Obatzda + radish.

19:30Hofbräukeller dinner

Hofbräukeller dinner (locals' Hofbräu, off Wiener Platz).

22:00Early bed

Early bed at Eden.

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19 Sep

Sat · 191. Wiesn 🍺

◖NachtBerlin · Hotel Berlin, Lützowplatz ✓

▣Fahrt0 km · no cars

Oktoberfest opening → BER night flight.

Stash bags at Hbf Schließfächer or Bounce. Theresienwiese for a 07:00 queue — a party of 9 without a reservation is not guaranteed a table at any hour. 10:45 Wirtseinzug parade. 12:00 "O'zapft is!" — first keg of Wiesn 2026. Hofbräu all afternoon. Only the 2-pax SAS pair takes the booked LH1962 21:30 → 22:35 to BER; everyone else leaves keyed to their own Sunday flight. Alex stays in Munich.

06:00Wake, pack

Wake. Pack.

06:30Stash the bags

Stash the bags at München Hbf Schließfächer (€4–6/day) or Bounce / Radical Storage nearby (book online ahead). Eden holds the SAS pair's bags until their hop.

07:00Queue the tent — 07:00 sharp

Walk to Theresienwiese (10 min from Hbf). Queue at Hofbräu Festzelt or Hacker-Festzelt. Warning: a party of 9 with no reservation is not guaranteed a table at any hour — split up if the doors bottleneck.

10:45Wirtseinzug parade

Wirtseinzug · parade of tent landlords through Munich.

12:00O'zapft is! 🍺

O'zapft is! · Mayor Reiter taps the first keg of Wiesn 2026 in the Schottenhamel tent.

PMHofbräu all afternoon

Hofbräu-Festzelt afternoon · Maß × Maß · Hendl half-chicken · communal benches.

EveningRolling departures

Rolling departures. Each traveller leaves the Wiesn keyed to their own Sunday flight — no single exit. Alex stays in Munich (flies MUC → DEN Sunday, no BER hop).

AlexStays in Munich Sat night

Eden checks out Sat morning and everyone else flies to BER, but Alex stays over and flies MUC → DEN on Sunday. He is sorting his own room.

19:00SAS pair break for MUC

The 2-pax SAS pair break early · S8 Hbf → MUC airport (~45 min, €13, every 10 min) to position for Sunday's early BER departure.

21:30LH1962 to BER · 2 pax

LH1962 MUC → BER · 21:30 → 22:35 · only the 2-pax SAS pair.

22:35Into Berlin · Hotel Berlin

SAS pair arrive BER · FEX / S-Bahn into the city to Hotel Berlin, Berlin — Lützowplatz 17. Sleep.

Flight · booked

München→Berlin LH1962 · 21:30 → 22:35 · 2 pax Only the 2-pax SAS pair · positions them for Sun morning

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20 Sep

Sunday · home

◖Heim—

▣Fahrt0 km

Depart — staggered.

Staggered departures from BER, plus Alex out of Munich. Early birds head for BER ~08:30; the Icelandair four take hotel breakfast first.

~08:30Early birds to the terminal

The 10:05 SAS (2 pax) and 10:40 Aer Lingus / DUB (1 pax) head out to BER — FEX / S-Bahn from the city, allow ~45 min.

10:05SAS departs · 2 pax

SAS departs BER · 2 pax.

10:40Aer Lingus departs · 1 pax

Aer Lingus / DUB departs BER · 1 pax.

Late AMBreakfast, the Icelandair four

Hotel breakfast for the 14:05 Icelandair four.

14:05Icelandair departs · 4 pax

Icelandair FI529 departs BER · 4 pax. Shaky / Kenny TBD.

16:10Alex flies home from Munich

Alex departs MUC → DEN (never in Berlin).

Berlin Saturday.Munich the Saturday after.

The Roadbook

Berlin — arrival.

Berlin walk → ICE to Hamburg.

Hamburg — full day.

Hamburg → Autostadt → Köln.

Nürburgring — then the Moselle.

Brauneberg → Neuschwanstein → Munich.

Dachau memorial + Munich — city afternoon.

Oktoberfest opening → BER night flight.

Depart — staggered.