Hotel Zugspitze

... and wet and heading back. Then we faced mom's fear of heights by going to the peak and highest point in Germany, Zugspitze, in a cable car. More great views and another meal atop the Alps. I had a Hacker-Pschorr Weissbier (wheat beer recommended to ...

... .  This hotel does not have a restaurant or bar, only breakfast, but so far it has been great. We took off for the Zugspitze, the tallest mountain in Deutschland, and stopped at a grocery in town to buy stuff for a quick lunch.  Mom needed to ...

... ;), but it appears there was a new one I wasn’t even vaguely aware of. Mountains. The taller, the better, and the Zugspitze is one tall mountain. After a rather long train ride, which included going through a tunnel for 20 minutes (not so fun with ...

Ei, in Grainau n-am ales foarte bine cazarea. Hotelul e ok, departe bine de telecabina catre Zugspitze, are curte mare, aranjata, bibilita, si e foarte, foarte dog-friendly. Ceea ce nu ne-a deranjat atat de mult, pentru ca noi suntem mari iubitori de ...

... Christmas) so that the litlle girls could have some recovery time in a peaceful place.  The tallest mountain in Germany is here...the Zugspitze. We were all able to take a cable car to the top to have a light lunch.  We went outside to the ...

... Alps. Friday, May 28 I awoke to sunshine so I knew that I would be "heading up"!  Breakfast and then to the  Zugspitze Bahnhof, the station for the cog wheel train that takes you almost to the summit.  47 euros round trip, up on the train ...

On our agenda today, since it was a clear, sunny day, was to take the ski gondola up to the highest peak in Germany, Zugspitze, at almost 3000km high. Still covered in snow, the Zugspitze is a great place to ski and many still were. Starting out, the ...

... unturned. From breakfast, we headed to the Hauptbahnhof (Central Train Station) to check on booking a train to Garmisch and Zugspitze, the tallest mountain in Germany.  Our travel book recommended stopping by the "Euraide" office.  There, we ...

... countryside was beautiful as it had been subjected to snow also. On the way, hubby had the brilliant idea of visiting the Zugspitze since it was such a beautiful day. We'd tried twice before to ascend (via furnicular or train) the 2964 meter peak ...

After leaving Cortina, driving to Austria, riding the coaster, ascending Zugspitze, and then driving on to Hohenschwangau, we were wiped out for the day.  After checking into our hotel, we walked around town scoping out the souvenir shops and then ...

... arrived. After a night in Garmisch at the Hotel Edelweiss we had planned on riding the cable car to the top of the Zugspitze, Germany's tallest mountain, but the mountain was socked in by clouds and it was raining so we opted to head right for ...

... Well except for needing to ride the lift down as there was no easy way or intermediate routes to the bottom.  The Zugspitze, the highest point in Germany was unbelievably beautiful in the sun.  Sun, snow and a cold beer in Germany with ...

... marked by a string of cable.  I followed the cable for about 50 feet, and found myself at the cross marking the Zugspitze’s summit.  I noticed Kelly and Dianne on the observation deck just across from the summit.  I yelled at them to ...

... because there was a biergarten! We bypassed the biergarten for the time being and went over to see the true summit of the Zugspitze. The observation platforms didn’t quite go all the way to the top. But there was a climbing route that had ladders, ...

... the use with this weather?"   My sole intention in coming here was to see the Zugspitze, Germany's highest Alpine peak. However, as I walked from the hotel toward the main streets of Partenkirchen, there was no way to even tell I was surrounded by ...

... a small town in Bavaria called Mittenwald, so I decided to spend Wednesday getting pictures to show my students. Mittenwald is near the Zugspitze, so I had the option of trying to go there as well, especially since the day was gorgeous. I opened the BMW's ...

... about an hour and a quarter and the last 20 minutes were through a tunnel that took us straight up through the heart of the Zugspitze mountain. It was a weird experience especially as we then emerged onto a plateau on top of the world, as it were, a ...

... pictures of a real submarine in the Deutsches Museum meant that I wouldn't need to do that. Then I thought I would drive to the Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak. But the weather has been cloudy, and so far all I would be able to see from there is the ...

... .  We're driving out to Neuschwanstein Casle tomorrow, along with Garmish Partinchirken and a ride up the Zugspitze if the weather hold out!  This hotel has much better internet access so I hope to post nightly.  Thanks to you all for your ...