PixieGal

Hello, we are about halfway through scheduling our June Europe trip. Now we have Berlin, Amsterdam, Glasgow/Edinburgh, and London left for 11 or 12 nights, depending on whether we spend one or two nights in Nuremberg before flying home (we've already had 2 nights there at the start of our trip.)

The round trip overseas flight is already scheduled... With Army connections it was way too good a deal to pass up. Now just eliciting input on which of the 4 places above deserve more nights.

Thanks!

bilboburgler

As a bare minimum
Berlin needs at least 3 nights especially for the musuems
Amsterdam needs 2 nights
Glasgow is a day trip from Edinburgh
Edinburgh needs 2 nights
London needs 5 nights
Total 12 nights
But that assumes you can travel between the places in zero time so something has to give

Dukey1

I am sorry but not knowing anything about what kinds of things you like to see and do it seems almost impossible to advise you with any sort of accuracy. I think Bilboburgler has done a good general job BUT what if you aren't interested in any of the Berlin museums but ARE interested in the major Amsterdam museums? MORE information is needed. And how ARE you going to travel between these cities? Rail? Cheap flights?

suze

I'd work the math a bit different...

If you dropped 1-2 of the 5 places you mentioned, then divide your 11-12 nights over just 3 places instead, allowing 3-4 days in each (rather than only 1-2 days in 5 places).

janisj

IMO way (waaaaay) too much in just 10 days (which is what 11 nights nets you) or even 11 days . . . especially at the end of a trip.

Have you been to any of them before?

Not having ANY idea what sorts of things you like nor what the earlier part of your itinerary looks like . . . and if it was MY trip - I'd do 3 nights in Amsterdam or Berlin, 3 nights in Edinburgh and the rest (5 or 6 nights) in London. But you'd really need 4 nights in Edinburgh if you wanted to fit in a day trip to Glasgow.

If it was really my trip, I'd do just Edinburgh and a couple of day trips from there . . . and London.

PixieGal

Thank you all, and I was afraid that would be the answer... It's my daughter and I, and we are just kind of trying to same some areas. Not huge into museums, but the Anne Frank is a definite on our trip, as well as Auschwitz-Birkenau (Krakow is prior to Berlin).. I think we'll cut out one of the nights in Nuremberg, since it's just a stop back in to catch our flight the next afternoon. So that gives us 12 days, and we are mostly into sightseeing, local flavor, vista's & views.

Christina

I don't think you've ever said where this flight is arriving and departing that you already have booked. That makes a big difference.

It sounds like it is somewhere in Germany, if so, I wouldn't even consider the Glasgow/Edinburgh part of your itinerary and don't know how you even thought you could do that in that short time frame. It's really far away from the other cities.

And now you've added Krakow to the itinerary??? seriously, I have no idea how you thought you could even do this at all. Krakow is already really out of the way. I was going to say given you are starting and leaving from Germany (apparently), I'd just do Berlin and Amsterdam, maybe you could throw in London at most. now that you've throw in Krakow (not sure how you plan to get there and back), I'd just do Berlin and Krakow, if you need another place, Prague would make more sense or Dresden in-between those. I don't really understand where you are leaving from, though.

janisj

>>It sounds like it is somewhere in Germany, if so, I wouldn't even consider the Glasgow/Edinburgh part of your itinerary and don't know how you even thought you could do that in that short time frame. It's really far away from the other cities.<<

I simply don't understand that reasoning. A flight to Edinburgh from say Amsterdam (also on the wish list) would be shorter than a flight or long train ride to Berlin or Krakow. Most any place in Europe can be visited from most anyplace else in Europe - it is simply the number of locations that causes problems.

PixieGal

We have one long train ride, night train to Krakow, but we'll be sleeping (hopefully, lol). The other travel days are either flights of less than 2.5 hrs or trains of less than 3.5. And I thought I'd said but guess it was just implied. We fly in and out if Nuremberg.

Sassafrass

Add time getting to airports or train stations, wait times for boarding planes and time getting from airport or train station to your hotel. That 2&1/2 hour flight turns into 4+ hours total travel time and the 3&1/2 hour train turns into 4&1/2+ hours total travel time. No getting around the fact that either of those eats up a half day.

mjs

As other have said, you have not accounted for time needed to move from one place to another. It takes at least a half day every time you move, if not more.
I agree that London needs at least 5 nights and I think Berlin, Amsterdam and Edinburgh each require 3 nights ( 2 full days ). You need to cut one or two places to make this a decent itinerary.

suze

When you realistically take into consideration the time involved changing places a 12 day itinerary as you have it now planned would look something like this:
Nuremberg 1.5
+0.5 changing places
Berlin 1.5
+0.5
Amsterdam 1.5
​​​​​​​+0.5
Glasgow 1.0
​​​​​​​+0.5
Edinburgh 1.0
​​​​​​​+0.5
London 1.5
​​​​​​​+0.5
Nuremberg 1.0