Germany travel tips

6 guides in Germany — when to go, how to get around, which ATMs not to use, and what a fair price looks like.

city buildings near body of water during daytime

BerlinGermanyHistory, nightlife, and space to breathe

The gothic tower of the Neues Rathaus on Marienplatz in Munich

MunichGermanyBeer halls, baroque and the Alps an hour down the motorway

a U-Bahn train on the elevated line above the Landungsbrücken, the harbour behind it

HamburgGermanyMore bridges than Venice and Amsterdam together, a harbour that runs the city, and the loudest night in Germany

An aerial view of a city and a bridge

CologneGermanyA cathedral that took six hundred years, beer served in small glasses until you say stop, and the Rhine going past

green grass field and green mountains under white clouds and blue sky during daytime

Black ForestGermanyDark firs, cuckoo clocks made where they were invented, and spa towns the Romans already knew about

brown mountain during daytime

Garmisch-PartenkirchenGermanyTwo towns the 1936 Olympics forced into one, under Germany’s highest mountain, with a gorge, a ski jump and a glacier all within half an hour