Hotel Zugspitze Garmisch

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... sure I convinced Cassandra. This place had a lot of individual character. So what do you do whilst visiting Garmisch-Partenkirchen? Well you go up the Zugspitze of course! The highest mountain in all of Germany and the location of the Olympic games. It ...

... 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 ...

After a great breakfast early this morning at the hotel, we caught a train to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. This quaint little town located in the Eastern Alps was host of the 1936 Winter Olympics. From here, we were only a couple miles from the highest ...

We arrived into Garmisch-Partenkirchen and checked into our hotel and then went to the cograilway station to go up the Zugspitze which is the highest point in Germany.  What was supposed to be a fantastic view was just clouds as a storm had moved ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... for a train bound to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the village at the foot of the Alps that would serve as our launching point for Zugspitze.  Along the route, we took in a number of rural Bavarian villages.  The architectural style of the houses was ...

We woke up to a sunny morning and warm weather below the Zugspitze considering most of the people in the town were going skiing. We saw 2 people from Norway on the Olympic ski team at breakfast and we hoped they were famous! We walked to the 1936 ...

... .  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 ...

... Cyclops in Krakow, Poland Best Sunset: tie between Dubrovnik, Croatia and Matala, Crete, Greece Best Overall View: Mt. Zugspitze Garmisch, Germany Most Entertaining City: Vienna, Austria Best Big City: Zurich, Switzerland Best Small Town: Hallstatt, ...

... 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 ...

... ride through the alps and actually made it Garmisch only 7 minutes later than the train would have 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, ...

... bunny 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, ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...