Trip to Germany
TRIP #1 - OKTOBERFEST WITH HOFBRAU - 2025
OKTOBERFEST In the Hofbrau TENT!
For 100 years, we’re taking a few Kegel’s Staff & a limited number of guests to a VIP experience Munich’s Oktoberfest in 2025! Everything but airfare is included in this very special trip to celebrate!
TRIP DATES: Sept 23 - 28, 2025
COST: $2500 PP
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Included:
All hotels, reservations and meals and libations included.
Mezzanine reservations in the Hofbrau Tent
Special Dinner at Hofbrau Haus
Brewery Tour
Traveling Dinner Bus tour of Munich
Beer Garden Day in English Gardens
Hotel Walking distance to Old Central City & Oktoberfest Grounds
NOT Included:
Airfare
Personal Spending
LIMITED AVAILABLITY
BOOK BEFORE JAN 1, 2025
TRIP #2 - ALPS TOUR OF GERMANY
TRIP DATES: April 25, 2026 - May 7, 2026
TRIP COST: $5,987.00
Financing available!
18 monthly payments of $329.83
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Rotenberg Aub Der Tauber, one of the most intact medieval walled cities in Europe
Hofbrau Brewery Tour - Munich - Private Brewery Tour at the headquarters of beer.
Marienplatz Old Town Munich - Free time to explore old town diner at Hofbrauhaus
Visit the ancient Saltmines in Saltzburg - 2600 years of white gold history
Sound Of Music Tour in Salzburg - A Beautiful and musical journey through Austrian Lake District
Alpine Hotel on our way to Southern Bavaria
Castle Tour of Neuschwanstein
Lucerne Switzerland - Head up Mount Pilatus via the world’s steepest cog railway or cable car.
Heidelberg and Castle tour
Rhine Cruise to Rudesheim -
LIMITED AVAILABLITY
BOOK BEFORE JAN 1, 2025
FULL ITINERARY
Day 1 Overnight flight to Germany (Frankfurt)
Day 2 Guten Tag Rothenburg
Meet your tour director and travel to your hotel in the Rothenburg area
Rothenburg tour director-led sightseeing
Marktplatz, Rathaus
Details: Rothenburg tour director-led sightseeing
Christmas reigns all year round in Rothenburg, a jewel of a town on Germany’s picturesque Romantic Road. Beyond the year-round Christmas markets, the town boasts one of the most intact medieval city walls in Europe and a fairly unique clock. During the Thirty Years’ War, a former Rothenburg mayor was offered the chance to save the city by chugging close to a gallon of wine; he succeeded (and then slept for three days straight), and his accomplishment is reenacted seven times daily by mechanical figures on the clock in the Marktplatz -- adding a new twist to the concept of “cuckoo clock.” The enormous Gothic St. Jacob’s Church watches over the exploits from across the square.
Day 3 Rothenburg area--Munich
Travel to Munich via Romantic Road
Free time in Munich
Dinner on your own
Details: Travel to Munich via Romantic Road
There is no surprise here. The Romantic Road is exactly what it says it is -- a drive down the middle of Western Bavaria’s heartland and a path through the center of your own heart with its romantic picturesque scenery. Between Würzburg and Füssen, the route is strewn with quaint villages, colorful castles, farmhouses, elaborate churches and dense forest.
Day 4 Munich
Free time in Munich
Hofbrau day trip and brewery tour (group-arranged)
Group-arranged dinner at Hofbrauhaus
Day 5 Munich--Salzburg
Travel to Salzburg
Salt Mines visit
Free time in Salzburg
Details: Travel to Salzburg
With its elegant squares and quaint streets, Salzburg is a delightful introduction to the sophisticated world of the classical genius, Mozart.
Details: Salt Mines visit
You’ll visit the salt mines. The area near Salzburg is one of the oldest centers of salt production in the world. You’ll journey back to the time when salt was still considered “white gold”.
Day 6 Salzburg
Sound of Music guided sightseeing tour
Details: Sound of Music guided sightseeing tour
Salzburg has never been the same since the 1964 film with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the true story of the von Trapp family. On your guided sightseeing tour you'll see some of the sites shown in the film - although the producers of the film took much artistic license.
Day 7 Salzburg--Innsbruck
Travel to Innsbruck via Rum
Free time to explore Innsbruck on your own!
Details: Travel to Innsbruck via Rum
Alpine views are around every corner and ski slopes are just a funicular ride from the center of historic Innsbruck. A medieval old town is home to imperial palaces, world-class galleries, and Zaha Hadid's avant-garde designs. Sophisticated, good-looking, and affluent, the Tyrolean capital walks a fine tightrope between the urban and the outdoors, as well as the historic and cutting edge, and pulls it off beautifully.
Day 8 Innsbruck--Lucerne
Travel to Lucerne via Neuschwanstein
Neuschwanstein Castle visit (pending confirmation)
Details: Neuschwanstein Castle visit (pending confirmation)
This elaborate castle was built atop a rock ledge over the Pöllat Gorge in the Bavarian Alps by order of Bavaria's King Ludwig II, referred to as "Mad Ludwig," whose favorite pastime was midnight sleigh rides through the countryside. This stronghold was the crowning jewel of the king’s building spree across Bavaria and was the inspiration for Cinderella’s castle in Disney World. Begun in 1869 and left unfinished at Ludwig's death in 1886, this lavish palace is an eccentric reconstruction of a medieval castle, and it boasts major technological and architectural achievements for the time, including running water, flushing toilets, a hot water system for the kitchen, and bathrooms with warm-air heating systems.
Day 9 Lucerne landmarks
Lucerne tour director-led sightseeing
Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument), River Reuss, Kapellbrücke
Mt. Pilatus excursion
Traditional Swiss Dinner with Fondue
Details: Lucerne tour director-led sightseeing
Before a backdrop of snow-capped Alpine mountains and green, cow-filled pastures, join your Tour Director on a trip to Lucerne’s famous sights. Weave your way through a maze of narrow, winding streets until you reach the River Reuss and the Medieval Kapellbrücke Bridge. Stop to marvel at the bridge walls, decorated with murals that recreate the 14th-century originals destroyed in a fire. Journey down the cobblestone streets in the Old Town to see the Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument), the somber sandstone wild cat gazing down into a reflecting pool, and ponder this artfully chiseled statue created to honor the
Swiss Guards who died defending the Tuileries in 1792.
Details: Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument)
View the Lion Monument, or Löwendenkmal, created in 1820 in honor of the Swiss Guards who lost their lives in 1792 during the French Revolution.
Details: Kapellbrücke
One of the city's famous landmarks is Chapel Bridge, or Kapellbrücke, a wooden bridge first built in the 14th century. It has also been voted as the 5th most popular tourism destination in the world.
Details: Mt. Pilatus excursion
Scale snow-capped Mount Pilatus via the world’s steepest cog railway or cable car. Enjoy a bird’s eye view of Lucerne’s skyline and Alpine panoramas galore. Here’s your chance to snap some of the most frame-worthy photos. Keep your fingers crossed for a clear day when mountain-top views span as far as 200 miles. Or enjoy some free time exploring Lucerne. Stroll the shores of Lake Lucerne. Scour the cozy neighborhoods for frescoed homes with oriel windows. Or just stop and indulge your sweet tooth in some of the creamiest chocolate in the world. If that doesn’t satisfy your craving for adventure, see your Tour Director for more ideas.
Day 10 Lucerne--Heidelberg
Travel to Heidelberg via the Black Forest
Cuckoo clock demonstration
Heidelberg tour director-led sightseeing
Heidelberg Castle & Heidelberg Tun barrel visit, University, Marktplatz
Details: Heidelberg tour director-led sightseeing
Surrounded by mountains, forests, and the Neckar River, Heidelberg showcases a quintessential German landscape. Join your Tour Director as you drive through this granddaddy of all college towns, with its scores of bars, cafés, and shops. Get a beautiful view Germany’s oldest university —founded in 1386—from the Marktplatz, Heidelberg’s main square. Notice that behind the university lurks the Students’ Prison, used from 1778 until 1914 to imprison students for up to four weeks for minor offenses like drunkenness, practical jokes, and dueling. (Imprisoned students still had to attend lectures — think of it as the 19th-century equivalent of being grounded.) Then head up to Heidelberg Castle, which is still a little wobbly from its partial destruction during the Thirty Years’ War, a 17th-century attack by the French, and a major lightening hit in 1764. The castle’s courtyard is home to the largest wine barrel in world, the Great Vat, which holds about 50,000 gallons of wine (possibly another contributing factor to the castle’s romantically off-balance appearance).
Details: Heidelberg Castle & Heidelberg Tun barrel visit
Head up to Heidelberg Castle, which is still a little wobbly from its partial destruction during the Thirty Years’ War, a 17th-century attack by the French, and a major lightening hit in 1764. The castle is considered to be one of the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps, and the castle’s courtyard is home to the largest wine barrel in world!
Day 11 Heidelberg--Rhineland
Travel to Rhineland via Mainz
Lunch at Eisgrub Restaurant (pending confirmation)
Fastnachtsmuseum visit
Dinner on your own
Day 12 Rhineland
Rhine cruise to Rudesheim from Koblenz
Disembark & overnight in the Rhineland
Farewell dinner
Details: Rhine cruise to Rudesheim from Koblenz
Cruise along the most beautiful stretch of the Rhine River, surrounded by rocky cliffs topped with picturesquely crumbling castles and covered by the country’s most famous vineyards. This build your own adventure lets you get off the boat at any of the towns, get back on, travel at your own pace - just make sure to catch the last boat to get back for dinner!
