South West Germany

South-west Germany packs more variety into a short drive than any other part of the country: castle towns on the Neckar, the spa culture of Baden-Baden, the Black Forest valleys, Swabian wine country, and in Stuttgart the two most-visited automotive museums in Europe.

This archive holds our private programmes for that corridor. The day formats include the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums with a specialist guide, a walking tour of Stuttgart, a Black Forest driving day, the winegrowing estates within an hour of Frankfurt, and the excursion to Burg Hohenzollern — the question advisors ask most often about this region is how to get to Hohenzollern castle from Stuttgart, and the honest answer is that it is an hour each way, that the shuttle up the last stretch does not always run, and that the day is far better with a car that waits. Two seven-day journeys tie the region together, one led by culture and spa, one by nature and myths.

The region also works as a river-cruise extension: most of it sits within two hours of the Rhine and Main-Danube ports, which is why we offer a Black Forest pre- and post-cruise package alongside the day programmes. Distances are short and a chauffeured car turns what looks like three separate trips into one relaxed week.