Visiting Porsche Museum and Factory - Advice please

[xftdr]

Thinking of making the trip across in Helga my 993.

Any advice for routes and hotels along the way?

Thanks

[Dave Thornton]

It would be worth doing a search - you're not the first to ask this.

My own route was: England - France - Belgium (Ghent) - Holland (Maastricht) - Luxembourg - Germany (Mosel Valley, then Autobahn to Stuttgart). Worth stopping at the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum (there's Concorde and the TU-144 side by side). A hotel with safe parking near to the factory/museum is "Hotel Stuttgart Zuffenhausen" - functional and clean with a great breakfast though not much character. I think the Porsche museum is closed on Mondays. Other people say it's worth going to the Mercedes museum too.

[systech]

Although you can visit the Museum anytime (it's open), my recollection is that you need to book a factory tour in advance. But well worth it.

[PTT]

Well, the museum is closed on Mondays.
Also visit http://www.motorworld.de/stuttgart/ near Stuttgart.
You are on the border of the Black Forest, drive the B500 or any b road, it's great.
There's an old circuit to visit, http://www.solitude-revival.org/
Make an appointment and visit http://www.techart.de/en.html

[Oi U]

The Porsche museum is great with a really good variety of cars. The Mercedes museum is okay and reasonable value but concentrates more on the development of engines and vehicles from the earliest days. I don't think that the Porsche museum is open on Mondays; the Mercedes museum is definitely closed on Mondays, open Tuesday - Sunday 10am to 7pm.

[douglasgdmw]

Popped across to the museum when we did a European tour when the Italian gods aligned (Rossi on a Ducati at Mugello).

We stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn on Mercedesstr which was couple of hundred yards away from the Mercedes museum. Reasonable priced and had secure underground parking (albeit available to all the public).

Another option would be to stay at the V8 hotel at Meilenwerk:
http://www.meilenwerk.com/meilenwerk/english
http://www.v8hotel.de
Would recommend that you go along to visit here as it's car nirvana with a variety of high end/classic car storage facility but also open to the public.

Can't comment on the hotel but assume its good enough as there was a guy in a Maserati MC-01 that we saw checking in for the night (although I don't know if it was with his daughter or girlfriend as she was at least 25yrs his junior)

George

Edited by douglasgdmw on Tuesday 7th July 11:40

[fastgerman]

douglasgdmw said:

Popped across to the museum when we did a European tour when the Italian gods aligned (Rossi on a Ducati at Mugello).

We stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn on Mercedesstr which was couple of hundred yards away from the Mercedes museum. Reasonable priced and had secure underground parking (albeit available to all the public).

Another option would be to stay at the V8 hotel at Meilenwerk:
http://www.meilenwerk.com/meilenwerk/english
http://www.v8hotel.de
Would recommend that you go along to visit here as it's car nirvana with a variety of high end/classic car storage facility but also open to the public.

Can't comment on the hotel but assume its good enough as there was a guy in a Maserati MC-01 that we saw checking in for the night (although I don't know if it was with his daughter or girlfriend as she was at least 25yrs his junior)

George

Edited by douglasgdmw on Tuesday 7th July 11:40

Did just this :-)

http://www.fastgerman.com/germany.htm

my room:



oh and drove this:

[blueSL]

Certainly echo that the Porsche and Mercedes museums are well worth visiting, as is the Porsche plant but they do limit what you see. You won't see any body-in-white production, for example. Also good is Meilenwerke at the airport in Böblingen close to the Mercedes plant in Sindelfingen, their largest. Meilenwerke is a hot spot for high-end new and used car dealers and all things petrolhead.

Don't be too concerned about parking security. By and large, Germans are much more respectful of other people's property than the scum in this country and I've been parking on the street for years, never a problem.