London to Vienna - all advice/suggestions welcome

[Nero44]

I will have a trawl through all the posts, but wanted to start a fresh one as there are some constraints as to this trip.

There is a conference in Vienna in October and I am planning on making the journey there into a bit of a road trip for about 15 cars. Will be a charity element too.

Planning on getting the Eurostar on the Wednesday afternoon and need to be in Vienna by Saturday lunchtime/early afternoon. I want to organise the route, hotels and restaurants so that all people have to do is drive and enjoy. Don't want too much motorway/autobahn but conscious that have limited time. Might have to do a straight run into Vienna from Stuttgart on the Saturday morning.

My initial thoughts:
Calais - Reins - Vosges mountains - Black Forest - Stuttgart (perhaps with Porsche factory tour?) - Vienna.

Any suggestions/recommendations for roads, restaurants and hotels would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks!
M

[huwp]

In Reims - Hotel deals LA Paix. Includes an underground car park. Very central but also very busy so book ahead.

Near Epernay - Chateau Etoges in Stores village. Just 50 yards from Borel Lucas Champagne, my favourite.

Can't help further.

[dcb]

Nero44 said:

My initial thoughts:
Calais - Reins - Vosges mountains - Black Forest - Stuttgart (perhaps with Porsche factory tour?) - Vienna.

Any suggestions/recommendations for roads, restaurants and hotels would be hugely appreciated.

Obvious route goes nowhere near Black Forest or Stuttgart.
You are putting at least 120 km on yourself going that way.

Obvious route is Calais, Brussels, Aachen, Cologne, Frankfurt,
Wurzburg, Nuremburg, Passau, Linz, Vienna.

That's about 1,300 km, or about 800 miles. Two long long days drive,
or better three days with some sightseeing.

Most of the route is the A3 from Cologne to Passau, I've
done it many times and it's fine, except the section
from Frankfurt to Wurzburg has some sections only two lanes each way
and so a bit slow. I don't get over 120 mph much there.

Possible things to see on the way include Porsche and M-B
at Stuttgart, Teknik museum just west of Heilbronn, Audi museum
at Ingolstadt and the BMW museum in Munich.

[Lost soul]

dcb said:

Obvious route goes nowhere near Black Forest or Stuttgart.
You are putting at least 120 km on yourself going that way.

dcb said:

Possible things to see on the way include Porsche and M-B
at Stuttgart,