Trip to Germany to NOT collect my car
Unfortunately, factory collection is not an option for Porsches coming to Australia. So I am organizing the next best thing, I hope....
With the blessing of our wives, I am taking a buddy for what I hope will be a great experience. We will fly to Frankfurt, and train to Stuttgart - arriving in time for the Factory tour. As my car is being built around that time, I can at least pretend that it is one of those being constructed on the day we are there. A sort of ultrasound picture of my baby at foetal stage. Plus a visit to the museum, restaurant, store etc
The following day we will join a Porsche travel club weekend trip with day one at Hockenheimring driving cente (is this the same as the racing circuit??) and overnight at a spa hotel. Day two driving through the Baden-Württemberg and the Palatinate regions and then back to Stuttgart.
We will have a couple more days to take in the Mercedes museum and what else we have yet to decide.
Unfortunately, neither of us can spare more than one week from our work and families so the trip will be very"focussed". I hope we at least get time to try the local beers
A few questions:
Any suggestions for hotels
Is there a Mercedes factory tour
Has anyone experience of a travel club weekend tour?
Any other highlights of the surrounding areas of Stuttagrt/Frankfurt?
Is it hard to get to Nurburgring from Stuttgart - a ride in a ring taxi would be fun!!
I can't believe my buddy and I both have leave passes from our domestic Interior Ministers!!
With the blessing of our wives, I am taking a buddy for what I hope will be a great experience. We will fly to Frankfurt, and train to Stuttgart - arriving in time for the Factory tour. As my car is being built around that time, I can at least pretend that it is one of those being constructed on the day we are there. A sort of ultrasound picture of my baby at foetal stage. Plus a visit to the museum, restaurant, store etc
The following day we will join a Porsche travel club weekend trip with day one at Hockenheimring driving cente (is this the same as the racing circuit??) and overnight at a spa hotel. Day two driving through the Baden-Württemberg and the Palatinate regions and then back to Stuttgart.
We will have a couple more days to take in the Mercedes museum and what else we have yet to decide.
Unfortunately, neither of us can spare more than one week from our work and families so the trip will be very"focussed". I hope we at least get time to try the local beers
A few questions:
Any suggestions for hotels
Is there a Mercedes factory tour
Has anyone experience of a travel club weekend tour?
Any other highlights of the surrounding areas of Stuttagrt/Frankfurt?
Is it hard to get to Nurburgring from Stuttgart - a ride in a ring taxi would be fun!!
I can't believe my buddy and I both have leave passes from our domestic Interior Ministers!!