London to Munich - route options / suggestions?

[Mannginger]

Hey folks. Planning a little road trip over to Munich and back. Any suggestions of routes and roads to try or great places to stop on the way? Just starting the planning this weekend. Thinking maybe go down via France / Reims and then back through Belgium. Probably heading down in July but possibly later in August / early September if that makes any difference?

Cheers in advance

[Pizzaeatingking]

Nice, BMW World and Motorworld are the two obvious places to visit. Potentially Stuttgart for the Porsche/Merc museums too. How long is the trip for?

[Ussrcossack]

Calais Lille Mons Luxembourg Stuttgart Munich

Includes trip to Motorworld in Lux, plus Fuel is usually cheaper in Lux as well as Tabacco.

This is mainly motorways as per Google maps, but it's what I'm doing this August

[ATG]

Years ago I cycled from Bastogne, through Bernkastel, Saarbrucken and I think we ended up at Karlsruhe. If you drew a straight line from the UK to Munich, my old cycling route would form a rather dog-legged middle section of your trip. You wouldn't want to replicate it exactly by any means, but I'd thoroughly recommend going through that area. Bastogne is in the Ardennes and then you get the huge river valleys of the Saar, Sure, Moselle and Rhein and the Pfalzerwald (northern extension of the Vosges mountains). So it's quite varied and very scenic. And there is local booze.

[s70rmp]

we did Manchester to Munich the other year, Manchester to Reims first stop and then Reims to Freudenstadt via the B500 black forrest and then to Konstanz and then on to Munich

great time was had but the Black Forrest roads are excellent and smooth but the speed limit is so low it get boring

[dcb]

Ussrcossack said:

Calais Lille Mons Luxembourg Stuttgart Munich

Pretty good route, but it's worth mentioning that Lille is *somewhat*
challenging to navigate, Namur to Lux on the Autoroute de Soleil is
dead boring and there's a chunk of non-motorway from Pirmasens to Landau.
I always get stuck behind a truck on that last bit.

Back when I used to drive to Munich a lot, my favourite route
was Calais, Brussels, Aachen, Cologne, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, Munich.
Not the shortest, but the best route to get onto the beloved autobahn
ASAP.

Bends in the Cologne to Frankfurt section were challenging over 200 kmh.

Frankfurt to Darmstadt IMHO a complete racetrack. Little old ladies doing
180 kmh in their Hyundai 3 cylinder city cars in lane 3. Every one else
flat out at 200+ kmh in lane 4.

There used to be sensible 130 kmh limits around Aschaffenburg.
Home of a big US military base. Dunno if that's still there now ?

[964Cup]

Watching this with interest. Will be doing London->Brussels->Stuttgart->Nuremberg->Bayreuth->Cologne->London over the course of the 21st to 28th as a post-A-level trip with my son. Also therefore very keen to hear ideas on things to do/see and routes to choose/avoid.

[gazza5]

I'm off in two weeks - not to munich though.

My route I am in the planning stage - hotels are booked, First day - home to Merzig, going through Luxembourg for cheap fuel.

Following day, bit of a detour, but going to Musee National De L'Automobile in Mullhouse, then driving back up to our stay in Stuttgart.

Next day - AMG factory tour

Day after start journey home - via V8 hotel to Lille (again through luxembourg - cheaper fuel approx 1 euro 70 cents for petrol).

Day after - going to Ypres to see the world war bits, before doing the scenic route from there to the tunnel (approx 2.5 hours according to AI).

Bit of a quick tour, but this was booked before the war broke out, cost of fuel will be bad - bought a V8 then the war broke out.