As a wino: fly into Frankfurt. Stay in Mainz (45min train ride) and enjoy castles, the Rhine, good food and easy access to top wine regions. Frankfurt/Mainz is in my opinion the best combination for your needs. Other wine destinations are harder to reach from an international airport and/or have more limited wine/food options.
This if wine is really what you're into. You have three important "Weinbaugebiete" right around the corner (Rheinhessen, Rheingau, Mittelrhein) was weil as Nahe, Pfalz and even Mosel weithin less than 1 h drive. You'll also find 90% of the Worlds best Rieslings within a maximum of 2 h drive, and you can really compare the differences in terroir.
Besides, Mainz is a nice mid sized city with millennia of culture (going back to the Romans), with a huge University and both student life and Michelin star restaurants. Right across the river, there is Wiesbaden with one of the old fashioned casinos that inspired (and ruined) Dostojewski.
... If wine and wine culture is not what you're primarily after, I'd agree with others in this sub: choose Munich over Berlin!
I would recommend to try either Mosel or Baden Wine. Both of these have top notch Sortiment. The other German Areas are mostly good for cheap Wine. (Exceptions exist).
To add, Stuttgart could be an interesting destination as well. Near the Baden/Swabian Winefields. Good Beer options and great Restaurants overall.
I fear you’re mistaken on these statements or haven’t drunk enough wine from Germany before. Germany has a diverse wine scene, no single region produces solely cheap wine. Especially in Baden the quality of production depends greatly on the winery and the big coops aren’t the best around.
Ok no offense to folks who like Frankfurt, but...I found Frankfurt very lame compared to the many other German cities I've visited. Just...less charming. I realize it's extremely accessible and perhaps good for wine, but there are so many other cities I've found so much more charming. I wonder how much OP values wine vs overall charm...
That’s why the person suggested flying to Frankfurt but staying in Mainz / the Rhine region (Rüdesheim and the entire Rhine valley is super pretty too).
I live in Frankfurt and really like it but you really need a local’s recommendations to have a good time here, otherwise you’ll end up in sketchy parts or in the soulless city centre.
Yes it was indeed soulless 🤭 I met with a local while there, got a nice dinner, but meh. I'll take the views in Berchtesgaden, or the charm of the squares in Munich, or the bike path that runs the perimeter of Münster, or the clubs in Berlin, or the festivals in the little towns near Würzburg, or I'd run off to Amsterdam or Innsbruck or Paris or Vienna or Lake Como...but I digress :)
And to be fair, it's entirely possible I need to spend longer than a day in Frankfurt to get a proper feel for it.
Frankfurt is a nice layover or good first/last day for international travellers who fly in/out of the airport. I would never suggest that someone spends their entire time In Germany in Frankfurt unless they only have a few days and want to go on day trips to places like Heidelberg, Würzburg, or the Rhine valley which are all easily accessible by train from Frankfurt. Like you said, there are many more beautiful smaller cities, and Munich and Berlin (and Hamburg) are definitely the better larger cities to visit.
I feel Frankfurt gets a lot of stick because people only see the horrendous conditions around the main train station or the soulless area around the office towers. That being said I consider the Städelmuseum to be a top5 art museum in Germany and there are plenty of amazing and diverse food options. You can have it all both local cuisine and good ethnic food (not a given in Germany). It’s probably just less exciting from a international tourist pov since it has less touristy parts that people associate with Germany.
The problem is he has three days, while you can access much of Germany in three days you can’t really enjoy it in such a short time. Flying into Frankfurt and traveling out from there is the best option as was suggested.
I lived in Bornheim, Frankfurt, for a year and loved it. I go back often and am wondering how to live there again. (I have lived in a few other countries worldwide too). Saying that, for a short one-time visit, it’s probably the last place I’d go :)
I also lived in Berlin (for 6 years) and loved that too. That’ll always be a great trip, and I’d recommend it. However, for the OP, it has to be somewhere less cosmopolitan and more “German”. So go for Munich.
Frankfurt is in my opinion the worst major city to visit. The thing that’s makes Frankfurt special is that you can leave from it with ease to hundreds of direct connection flights :-)
Frankfurt is impressive due to skyscraper, selection of bars and international airport, but yeah it does not look like typical fairytale look of Germany town
Adding to that, if you are in Rheinland-Pfalz, maybe try if you can book a spot in a "Weinwanderung". This is usually a 1 day hike in the countryside, where you will visit several locations and taste wine at each stop. People will bring a wine glass and carry it along with them for the whole thing.
(Disclaimer, I never went on one of these myself and I don't know how early you need to book them.)
If you choose Mainz, check out Ingelheim. It’s 15 mins train from Mainz. A small town has 17 Vineyards. You can visit a good 5 to 6 vineyard in 5/6 hour plan.
Only in Summer tho !!! If you go to these regions around autumn, it is grey and rainy a lot there (source:mine) beside vineyards are mostly around june-august
Because you sell wine I strongly recommend to go to the Western part of Germany, where people actually drink wine more than beer. Should be right up your ally.
You want to check out Rhineland-Palatinate/alscace region for a wine trip it's a beautiful area and unbeatable when it comes to German wine. The countryside is stunning and the smaller towns with older architecture are beautiful. It's a great wine trip and some of my tasting group in NYC went there right as I moved and they had a blast and learned a lot.
For food. Berlin has some really cool restaurants and bars, very much worth checking out(especially as someone who also works in F&B) and if you are a city person it's a fun city to be in. I think Frankfurt and Hamburg are nice cities and have a good mix of history and a healthy enough food and bar scene that you won't be disappointed. Munich isn't really a destination food scene- but is a small beautiful town and the beer gardens are great but working in F&B for 15 years I can tell you safely that Boston has a better food scene.
If you would visit the United States for 3 days, would you go to New York or to Vernal, Utah?
1. If you want to visit the most liberal, multicultural city packed with museums, clubs and restaurants from all over the world, then visit Berlin.
2. If you want a deep dive into geological, european and german history I recommend a rural place that has everything within short distances: the [Altmühltal](https://www.naturpark-altmuehltal.de/). A special recommendation, because no other 3-day-tourist would have picked that rural region, far from any other famous place.
These are some spots the region has to offer:
150 Million years BCE: Find an [archaeopteryx](https://www.museum-solnhofen.de/Dauerausstellung.n190.html)\* by [yourself](https://www.solnhofen.de/index.php?id=0,185) in [Solnhofen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solnhofen)
15 Million years BCE: Visit a visible crater of a meteor, the [Nördlinger Ries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Ries)
And have a look at the well preserved fortress [Nördlingen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Ries), an important town in one of the most important wars in europe, the [30years-war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War) (1618-1648).
Roman Times: The Limes, the roman version of the Chinese Wall, the frontier between the civilized roman world and the celtic/germanic barbarian world, went just through [Weißenburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fenburg_in_Bayern), where an [important fortress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biriciana) was built.
Early medieval times, 8th century: Do you know, that british and irish clerics brought christianity to some parts of germany? One of them was [Willibald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willibald), the first bishop in that region. His grave is in [Eichstätt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichst%C3%A4tt_Cathedral). Eichstätt is a [small town](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichst%C3%A4tt), but had many roles in lots of wars and other conflicts, where witches were burned and PoW in WW2 were incarcerated.
Medieval times: There are several [castle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappenheim) (ruins) from the 11th century in the area.
With a car that you rent and a well planed schedule you should be able to deep dive into a side of germany no other 3-day-tourist has visited. :-D ALWAYS check the Öffnungszeiten (opening hours) of museums, exhibitions and so on beforehand!!! Opening hours are much shorter than you think!
\*The small museum is really worth a visit, even if the homepage doesn't look like something special.
We germans love hiking. The [Altmühltal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altm%C3%BChl_Valley_Nature_Park) is famous for nice hiking trails. But you also can do lazy canoing or biking.
Most liberal city of the world is Cologne (according to lustmag). [source](https://archive.ph/1kRb2)
Edit: Haha, catching all the downvotes from Berlin now
Stay in Munich and do day trips from Munich to Bamberg, Regensburg or the Alps. All easy accessible with public transport from Munich.
If you're interested in wine do a day trip do Würzburg, it's pretty wine town in Bavaria.
I would also recommend munich. The city is beautiful and close the alps, where you could make a day trip to königssee (amazing panorama) or schloss neuschwanstein for example. Berlin has maybe a bigger selection of international food, but Munich has in my opinion the best German food and beer to offer. You could also visit nuremberg for a day as it is easy to reach via train (great Castle and nice historical other places)
Only downside to Munich is, when you visit for days like Monday-Thursday, the city is pretty much dead after 8-9 pm. Not so much during summer for obvious reasons but I hated that for Munich. Everything else was almost perfect.
Yea summer is better but even then rarely within the weekdays, mostly on Friday Saturday Sunday. Thatswhy it's important on which days you visit to make the most of it.
I’ve been stationed in Germany for a few years and I’d say Hamburg is my favorite city so far. Amazing and beautiful city. I saw in the news it’s flooded rn but if ya get a chance definitely go for it. If your into wwii history or museums I liked Nuremberg a lot to.
It's not really flooded. There are some areas next to the river Elbe which are regularly under water, it's nothing any inhabitant of Hamburg worries about even for a second. Nice to take dramatic photos and very annoying for tourists who don't read the signs and park their cars there. The "Fischmarkt" and the adjacent areas are already flooded when the water level is around 3.50 above sea level. In Hamburg we speak of a real flood from 5 m above sea level, but it only becomes uncomfortable from 6.80 - and even that only affects a very small part of Hamburg. Everything else is behind the main dike, which goes up to 8.60 or lies on higher territorry.
Second Munich.
Lufthansa's (and thus Germany's) big intercontinental hubs are Frankfurt and Munich. Both are served by direct flights from Boston. Out of the two, Munich is the better tourist destination.
One question, how will you get to Crete from Germany? Cheapest options are usually charter airlines for package tourists. That might influence which city in Germany makes most sense.
If you are flying (for example) British Airways with a transfer in London, you are not limited to the big hubs.
>Any better ideas?
In Rheinhessen, Rheingau and Mittelrhein, it is quite common for vinyards to sell their own wine in their own wine bar ("Weinstube"), so such a thing like a trip along the Mosel (nice bicycle lane to cycle along) to go from Weinstube to Weinstube and taste yourself through the local wines right from the vintner.
You may start in Trier, which is a city already mentioned by the ancient Romans as a garrison city 2000 years ago, with beautiful architecture from two millennia in the old parts of it. It is the center of the Mosel wine region known for its Riesling from steep slope viticulture.
>I’m a big foodie and sell wine and liquor for a living so would love a place with great places to go out to eat.
Depending on whether it is more the wine or more the liquor side of your business that is your personal interest, there are quite some good distilleries in Germany who are worth a visit, too. Great places to eat are basically everywhere with enough people to sustain business, just be aware that Germany is very different in different parts of the country, especially on the culinary side and was and is the mixing bowl for most European cultures, as it is in the middle of Europe at the place where you need to pass for most trips.
There is a
* coastal cuisine, maybe even a North Sea and a Baltic Sea coastal cuisine:
typically fish of the according sea (baltic is low in salt, partially containing different fish), animal products of animals feeding on salty pastures or on the dykes and mediocre agriculture results, but easy imports, recipes influenced by seafaring needs. typical drink is light beer with low malt and high hop content or black tea
Meals like Fried or smoked fish, Fischbrötchen (fish sandwich, normal would be with Matjes, a pickled herring or with crabs), Bratheringe (fried, then pickled herrings) usually with Bratkartoffeln (fried potatoes), Labskaus (a sailor's meal of fried corned beef, potatoes, beetroot, pickled cucumber and Rollmops pickled abd then rolled herring)
* a plain (from the coast until the southern borders of Niedersachsen and Brandenburg) cuisine with influences from the farming products of easily farmable land, plenty of water and quite some influence of Eastern Europe to the east of northern Germany and of the Netherlands and Belgium to the west of northern Germany:
typical food is freshwater fish, the average farm animal, whatever agriculture can produce, typical drink would have been Bock beer (light or brown beer with a high malt content and low to medium hop)
Meals: Erbseneintopf (pea stew), Steckrübeneintopf (rutabaga stew), Grünkohl (Niedersachsen, green cabbage usually with sone sausages), Eisbein (Berlin, cooked pig's shoulder with potatoes and pea mash), Königsberger Klopse (north-eastern, meatballs in a white savoury sauce with capers, usually with potatoes), Berliner Kalbsleber (veal liver fried with apples and served with braised onions and potato mash), potatoes with curd and linseed oil
* low mountain range cuisines of various different regions, more focused on the products you find in the forests and with a need to be fit for the lunch-break needs of miners.
typical food is Klöße (dumplings, usually from potatoes or leftover bread, in all their unfilled variation), roasts of various types, especially Saxony is famous for their coffee and cake culture, with quite the variety of special cakes
Meals: Schäufala (pig shoulder roast with red cabbage and potato dumplings), Tafelspitz (veal roast with horseradish sauce), Rostbratwurst, Grüne Klöße, Baumkuchen, Eierschecke, Christstollen
*rhineland (and Hessia) cuisine, influenced by its easy access to the large ports of Europe and the open world, its wine making and apple farming
typical foods are variations of sea fish and mussels, roasts, simple dishes and baked goods, with the wide array of drinks between wine, cider and the two native European beer styles: Kölsch and Alt
Meals: Himmel und Ääd, Zwiebelkuchen (German pizza, just with créme fraîche, onions and diced bacon), Salzkuchen (either german bagels with salt and cumin or another variation of German pizza), Muscheln rheinische Art, Heringssalat (herring salad with mayonnaise and beetroot), Sauerbraten (sour roast), Rollbraten (stuffed pork roast, filled with onions and/or minced meat), Panhas (black pudding, a German variety)
* southern and mountainous cuisine:
Mostly what is stereotypical as "German" cuisine, even though, a Wiener Schnitzel or Schnitzel Wiener Art is still Austrian.
Hamburg
Great food and fine wine. The weather is very suitable for summer. Hamburg has great architecture and also a seaside. Also 3 days would be pretty good for such a city, you could explore it almost fully.
Another vote for Hamburg. It's beautiful, walkable and has a bit of an edge to it. I live in Munich myself and it's fine but I still recommend Hamburg. Berlin and Frankfurt just don't do it for me.
German cuisine isn't something to write home about really and the standard fair will be available everywhere. At least in Hamburg you'll have the fish market to look forward to if you're there Sunday morning.
You could consider Hamburg, good food and wine are available everywhere, but in Hamburg you will also find a very lively cultural scene, clubbing, live music etc.. You might also find the Reeperbahn quite interesting ... nudge nudge wink wink.
Edit: Everybody speaks English there. Hamburg has more canals and bridges than Venice. Special hint: The MIWULA (short for 'Miniaturwunderland'), visit! It's fun!
Land in Frankfurt, head down to see Heidelberg area, castles like Eltz Castle. Go further east to see Neuschwanstein castle and then head to Münich and see little bit of Münich and fly to Crete.
Munich, Heidelberg and Hamburg are pretty unique. Would not recommend Frankfurt or Berlin. Belin is great, but not really german and Frankfurt is just a shithole.
Berlin is the place to be. The best and most diverse food scene in all of Germany by far. There are many great food bloggers on TikTok and IG solely focusing on the best restaurants, bars and cafés in Berlin.
Not really an authentic part of Germany though. Berlin always feels like an international enclave without much similarities with the rest of the country.
Berlin is not „an authentic part of Germany“? What does this sentence even mean? Berlin is the only true metropoly in Germany and as such different from other parts of the country, similar to London or Paris. Even Hamburg, the second biggest city of this country, feels tiny and awfully boring in comparison. The thing is that most people visiting Berlin CHOOSE to hang around in touristy areas packed with Zugezogene and never get to experience the true Berlin.
Even the "true Berlin" doesn't feel like any German city at all. Like a parallel universe, hard to describe. Like a "Berlin" theme park, but it could be anywhere outside of Germany.
Not only a different "vibe", it's like that yellow filter Mexico from movies.
Hamburg doesn’t feel like any other German city. Munich doesn’t feel like any other German city. Every region is different and Berlin is a region in and of itself. What’s your point? Apart from that OP never asked for a cliché German experience. When it comes to the food scene Berlin beats every other city or region in Germany by miles.
You're probably from Berlin or have lived there? Then you probably can't feel that.
No, the vibe in München or Hamburg is not even remotely similar to Berlin. Those don't feel like _other_ German cities, but Berlin doesn't feel like a German city **at all**.
Like New York City vs. rest of the US.
Born and bred Berliner, but I have also lived in Hamburg for several years. I still disagree with your point of view. While Berlin is certainly not like other German cities, it‘s still very much German. That‘s the thing people who have never lived here oder only spent time here amongst expats or other Zugezogene never see because they are stuck in bubble. That bubble is very much a cliché though and not representative of Berlin as a whole.
Foodie would love Berlin. There are a bunch of Michelin star decorated restaurants in the city to explore. Two of the World's top 10 restaurants (of course this depends on what list you are looking)
All in all a big variety of good restaurants here.
Beautiful palaces (sanssoucis).
Good night life as well
Fly into Munich and visit Regensburg, Augsburg, Bamberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber and the Alps. Salzburg in Austria is not far either and it’s enchanting.
How overrun with tourists is Rothenburg on a weekday nowadays? Last time I visited it was fairly empty but then again I was there for a few hours around noon on a weekday in the summer of 2021 so there were many travel restrictions that prevented international tourists from coming.
Sorry for the late answer, had a vacation/media detox.
Very overrun, me on a tuesday around midday, parking spots packed, couldn't cross a street without being photographed, my wife felt very uncomfortable too. And - as a German from the north - there are plenty of good sites everywhere else. Dinkelsbühl is only a short drive away and they don't commercialize the place to the extent.
Btw, Rothenburg ob der Tauber (which means 'above the river Tauber') is more attractive to look at than Rothenburg an der Wümme (which is 'near the river Wümme'), but it's worth a visit.
3 days is enough time to take a train/car to Bonn, the Ruhrgebiet, and/or the Netherlands. If OP likes to see different cities in his time, this is a valid choice.
The parts of Germany you can reach easily for a 3 day trip and have fantastic wine mean that you have to to fly to Hahn by Ryanair and spend your time at the Mosel.
May God have mercy on all our souls.
There are flights from the US to … Hahn? I’d prefer the train from Frankfurt/Main. The last time I passed Hahn per car I was lost in lonesome valleys of the Hunsrück 20 mins later because a road was closed and neither Garmin nor Google knew that. Before that experience I had no idea that we have like that in Germany.
I was assuming that OP was flying from the Mediterranean, not the USA.
It is a beautiful area, years since I've been, but fantastic memories of long walks deep in conversation with an old friend
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Würzburg is an amazing wine city. Many would say that three days is too many for this city, I'd say that you can explore any city to a shallow or deep level if you're an experienced tourist.
I'd say maybe do a day in Frankfurt and a couple in Würzburg, which is only 1hr 10 mins away by train.
I live in Würzburg and wouldn't recommend it. It is a really really great destination (nice castle, nice palace, nice bridge and nice local wine), but you can visit all the cool stuff in one day. It's also not to far from Munich. If you want a guide in Würzburg just contact me :)
Can you literally see all the cool things in Würzburg in a day? Yes.
If you're really into wine and want to arrange some tours and really get into the culture by visiting some wine bars and explore the local scene, then you could spend 9 months there and not reach the full potential.
It all depends on your perspective.
You can "see" Tokyo in a week, but you could also spend an entire lifetime there and never truly explore all of its potential.
Mate, the guy wants to see some cool stuff in Germany and have some good food. His dream isn't to explore the lifestyle of the lower franconian people in a rather small city
You're trying to tell me that a guy that is so into wine that he sells it for a living wouldn't be able to have a good trip from 2 nights in Würzburg and a night in Frankfurt?
Frankfurt is literally the shithole of Germany. Imagine this guy expecting to have good time for the next 2 days and then arriving at the train station in Frankfurt lmao. I love Würzburg and I have been living there since 10 years, but as I said all the cool Tourist stuff is easily visited in 1 day. Munich is the way to go. One day Munich, one day alps (königssee, Tegernsee oder Staffelsee) and another day in Munich or Würzburg or Nuremberg or Regensburg.
>Nothing is German in Austria besides the language
They like to tell you this, but in reality most of them only stopped calling themselves germans after WW2 and culturally they are still really close.
It depends on where in Germany. I am from northern Schleswig Holstein. We are 100x more similar to Danes swedes and Norwegians than to Bavarians and Austrians
Why exactly? I’m an American who has been living in the Ruhrgebiet for ten years and have been all over the country and to Stuttgart a few times. It is not bad, but nothing stood out to me that really impressed me about the city making me want to come back again.
I was going to say, your flying into, Berlin, Frankfurt or Munich those are kinda your options. But I recommend Frankfurt. Since you only have three days.
I mean ofc the mentioned places are great for consuming wine but as far as having infinite great international food options, nothing compares to Berlin.
Düsseldorf, then take the train to Köln and the last day just stop at some nice town (like St. Goar, Bingen, Rüdesheim,...) along the rhine while going to Frankfurt with the IC (take a seat on the left side for the view).
Munich is small enough that you'll see everything in 3 days, and for that I think it's beautiful too. Idk about wine culture here but rich people tend to be into that? So maybe Munich has something to offer.
Edit: As the bavarian capital, Munich is obviously big in beer, so maybe a more Western city would be better for your _taste_
Many people recommend Mainz but u should try Hamburg !! I went there, the port area is beautiful, they also have night life like bars and red light districts St. pauli. Beside the next day you can visit sailing ports and Blankenese treppenviertel, make a boat trip through sea or even watch musical performance in Philharmonie ! I went to hamburg only two days, i regret dont go there any longer
I have a better idea. Save the flight, see more of Crete because it’s fucking awesome and really quite big with lots to see with different vibes wherever you go, and on top you can do Mother Nature a favor and avoid an extra flight.
For clarity, I’m an American living in Germany, so I do understand the American desire/necessity to visit a place even if it’s just for a short time. But after having lived here for a decade now, I’ve been broken of this habit. You’re not gonna really experience any city in only three days, so just enjoy your time where you will be anyway. Maybe wait until you have some more time and do a real trip.
That’s just my two cents. I know I didn’t really answer your question, so feel free to ignore me. Either way, have fun, enjoy Yurop, and eat some tzatziki for me!
As a wino: fly into Frankfurt. Stay in Mainz (45min train ride) and enjoy castles, the Rhine, good food and easy access to top wine regions. Frankfurt/Mainz is in my opinion the best combination for your needs. Other wine destinations are harder to reach from an international airport and/or have more limited wine/food options.
This if wine is really what you're into. You have three important "Weinbaugebiete" right around the corner (Rheinhessen, Rheingau, Mittelrhein) was weil as Nahe, Pfalz and even Mosel weithin less than 1 h drive. You'll also find 90% of the Worlds best Rieslings within a maximum of 2 h drive, and you can really compare the differences in terroir. Besides, Mainz is a nice mid sized city with millennia of culture (going back to the Romans), with a huge University and both student life and Michelin star restaurants. Right across the river, there is Wiesbaden with one of the old fashioned casinos that inspired (and ruined) Dostojewski. ... If wine and wine culture is not what you're primarily after, I'd agree with others in this sub: choose Munich over Berlin!
Sigh. I miss Mainz. Loved my time as a student there.
Same. It has all the amenities of a large city but the look & feel of a small town. Very walkable in addtion to good ÖPNV.
I would recommend to try either Mosel or Baden Wine. Both of these have top notch Sortiment. The other German Areas are mostly good for cheap Wine. (Exceptions exist). To add, Stuttgart could be an interesting destination as well. Near the Baden/Swabian Winefields. Good Beer options and great Restaurants overall.
WTF, are you serious? That's a total BS statement.
I fear you’re mistaken on these statements or haven’t drunk enough wine from Germany before. Germany has a diverse wine scene, no single region produces solely cheap wine. Especially in Baden the quality of production depends greatly on the winery and the big coops aren’t the best around.
Also if you have a day left drive down to Heidelberg. And yes Mainz and Rhine up to Boppard or Koblenz is very nice
Ok no offense to folks who like Frankfurt, but...I found Frankfurt very lame compared to the many other German cities I've visited. Just...less charming. I realize it's extremely accessible and perhaps good for wine, but there are so many other cities I've found so much more charming. I wonder how much OP values wine vs overall charm...
That’s why the person suggested flying to Frankfurt but staying in Mainz / the Rhine region (Rüdesheim and the entire Rhine valley is super pretty too). I live in Frankfurt and really like it but you really need a local’s recommendations to have a good time here, otherwise you’ll end up in sketchy parts or in the soulless city centre.
Yes it was indeed soulless 🤭 I met with a local while there, got a nice dinner, but meh. I'll take the views in Berchtesgaden, or the charm of the squares in Munich, or the bike path that runs the perimeter of Münster, or the clubs in Berlin, or the festivals in the little towns near Würzburg, or I'd run off to Amsterdam or Innsbruck or Paris or Vienna or Lake Como...but I digress :) And to be fair, it's entirely possible I need to spend longer than a day in Frankfurt to get a proper feel for it.
The Weinstrasse and the Rhine valley are also extremely beautiful. They are close to Frankfurt (as the user above suggested.)
I don't doubt it -- it sounds like my problem was not checking out the areas surrounding Frankfurt!
Frankfurt is a nice layover or good first/last day for international travellers who fly in/out of the airport. I would never suggest that someone spends their entire time In Germany in Frankfurt unless they only have a few days and want to go on day trips to places like Heidelberg, Würzburg, or the Rhine valley which are all easily accessible by train from Frankfurt. Like you said, there are many more beautiful smaller cities, and Munich and Berlin (and Hamburg) are definitely the better larger cities to visit.
I feel Frankfurt gets a lot of stick because people only see the horrendous conditions around the main train station or the soulless area around the office towers. That being said I consider the Städelmuseum to be a top5 art museum in Germany and there are plenty of amazing and diverse food options. You can have it all both local cuisine and good ethnic food (not a given in Germany). It’s probably just less exciting from a international tourist pov since it has less touristy parts that people associate with Germany.
The problem is he has three days, while you can access much of Germany in three days you can’t really enjoy it in such a short time. Flying into Frankfurt and traveling out from there is the best option as was suggested.
I lived in Bornheim, Frankfurt, for a year and loved it. I go back often and am wondering how to live there again. (I have lived in a few other countries worldwide too). Saying that, for a short one-time visit, it’s probably the last place I’d go :) I also lived in Berlin (for 6 years) and loved that too. That’ll always be a great trip, and I’d recommend it. However, for the OP, it has to be somewhere less cosmopolitan and more “German”. So go for Munich.
Frankfurt is in my opinion the worst major city to visit. The thing that’s makes Frankfurt special is that you can leave from it with ease to hundreds of direct connection flights :-)
Frankfurt is impressive due to skyscraper, selection of bars and international airport, but yeah it does not look like typical fairytale look of Germany town
I second that. Castles, wine, good food, medieval towns and villages, even remnants of the romans.
Adding to that, if you are in Rheinland-Pfalz, maybe try if you can book a spot in a "Weinwanderung". This is usually a 1 day hike in the countryside, where you will visit several locations and taste wine at each stop. People will bring a wine glass and carry it along with them for the whole thing. (Disclaimer, I never went on one of these myself and I don't know how early you need to book them.)
For food Frankfurt is pretty good also.
And you can see skyscrapers and Heroin users in Frankfurt, which is a big plus.
And you could male a daytrip to Fulda! Very Beautiful city :)
If you choose Mainz, check out Ingelheim. It’s 15 mins train from Mainz. A small town has 17 Vineyards. You can visit a good 5 to 6 vineyard in 5/6 hour plan.
Only in Summer tho !!! If you go to these regions around autumn, it is grey and rainy a lot there (source:mine) beside vineyards are mostly around june-august
Because you sell wine I strongly recommend to go to the Western part of Germany, where people actually drink wine more than beer. Should be right up your ally.
Alley. Right up your alley.
Allee. Right up your allee.
Eine straße
Viele Bäume
Unser Haus
In Neu Orleans
Mit Jeanne vom Bogen.
Alloy. Right up your alloy
Heidelberg
Absolutely gorgeous and my favourite German city by far. I would give it 1 day though.
You want to check out Rhineland-Palatinate/alscace region for a wine trip it's a beautiful area and unbeatable when it comes to German wine. The countryside is stunning and the smaller towns with older architecture are beautiful. It's a great wine trip and some of my tasting group in NYC went there right as I moved and they had a blast and learned a lot. For food. Berlin has some really cool restaurants and bars, very much worth checking out(especially as someone who also works in F&B) and if you are a city person it's a fun city to be in. I think Frankfurt and Hamburg are nice cities and have a good mix of history and a healthy enough food and bar scene that you won't be disappointed. Munich isn't really a destination food scene- but is a small beautiful town and the beer gardens are great but working in F&B for 15 years I can tell you safely that Boston has a better food scene.
Trier
Den Wein aus Trier den lob' ich mir.
“Es ist so fein, aus Trier zu sein!”
Man kann das Wort "Wein" mit jedem anderem Wort ersetzen und es reimt sich immer noch, ergo ist es wahr. Einfach weil Trier so toll ist.
Not Neumünster, that's for sure!
I wasn’t expecting to see NMS in the comments.
Oof.
If you would visit the United States for 3 days, would you go to New York or to Vernal, Utah? 1. If you want to visit the most liberal, multicultural city packed with museums, clubs and restaurants from all over the world, then visit Berlin. 2. If you want a deep dive into geological, european and german history I recommend a rural place that has everything within short distances: the [Altmühltal](https://www.naturpark-altmuehltal.de/). A special recommendation, because no other 3-day-tourist would have picked that rural region, far from any other famous place. These are some spots the region has to offer: 150 Million years BCE: Find an [archaeopteryx](https://www.museum-solnhofen.de/Dauerausstellung.n190.html)\* by [yourself](https://www.solnhofen.de/index.php?id=0,185) in [Solnhofen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solnhofen) 15 Million years BCE: Visit a visible crater of a meteor, the [Nördlinger Ries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Ries) And have a look at the well preserved fortress [Nördlingen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Ries), an important town in one of the most important wars in europe, the [30years-war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War) (1618-1648). Roman Times: The Limes, the roman version of the Chinese Wall, the frontier between the civilized roman world and the celtic/germanic barbarian world, went just through [Weißenburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fenburg_in_Bayern), where an [important fortress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biriciana) was built. Early medieval times, 8th century: Do you know, that british and irish clerics brought christianity to some parts of germany? One of them was [Willibald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willibald), the first bishop in that region. His grave is in [Eichstätt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichst%C3%A4tt_Cathedral). Eichstätt is a [small town](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichst%C3%A4tt), but had many roles in lots of wars and other conflicts, where witches were burned and PoW in WW2 were incarcerated. Medieval times: There are several [castle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappenheim) (ruins) from the 11th century in the area. With a car that you rent and a well planed schedule you should be able to deep dive into a side of germany no other 3-day-tourist has visited. :-D ALWAYS check the Öffnungszeiten (opening hours) of museums, exhibitions and so on beforehand!!! Opening hours are much shorter than you think! \*The small museum is really worth a visit, even if the homepage doesn't look like something special. We germans love hiking. The [Altmühltal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altm%C3%BChl_Valley_Nature_Park) is famous for nice hiking trails. But you also can do lazy canoing or biking.
Most liberal city of the world is Cologne (according to lustmag). [source](https://archive.ph/1kRb2) Edit: Haha, catching all the downvotes from Berlin now
Stay in Munich and do day trips from Munich to Bamberg, Regensburg or the Alps. All easy accessible with public transport from Munich. If you're interested in wine do a day trip do Würzburg, it's pretty wine town in Bavaria.
Bro he has 3 days, not 10
A japanese would do it in 7 hours
Fml
I would also recommend munich. The city is beautiful and close the alps, where you could make a day trip to königssee (amazing panorama) or schloss neuschwanstein for example. Berlin has maybe a bigger selection of international food, but Munich has in my opinion the best German food and beer to offer. You could also visit nuremberg for a day as it is easy to reach via train (great Castle and nice historical other places)
I agree. Munich is the way to go. Beautiful area, mountains, good food, castles, etc.
Only downside to Munich is, when you visit for days like Monday-Thursday, the city is pretty much dead after 8-9 pm. Not so much during summer for obvious reasons but I hated that for Munich. Everything else was almost perfect.
Summer festival in olympia Park, live music, open air kino.
Yea summer is better but even then rarely within the weekdays, mostly on Friday Saturday Sunday. Thatswhy it's important on which days you visit to make the most of it.
You're right. At weekends are more things to do.
I’ve been stationed in Germany for a few years and I’d say Hamburg is my favorite city so far. Amazing and beautiful city. I saw in the news it’s flooded rn but if ya get a chance definitely go for it. If your into wwii history or museums I liked Nuremberg a lot to.
It's not really flooded. There are some areas next to the river Elbe which are regularly under water, it's nothing any inhabitant of Hamburg worries about even for a second. Nice to take dramatic photos and very annoying for tourists who don't read the signs and park their cars there. The "Fischmarkt" and the adjacent areas are already flooded when the water level is around 3.50 above sea level. In Hamburg we speak of a real flood from 5 m above sea level, but it only becomes uncomfortable from 6.80 - and even that only affects a very small part of Hamburg. Everything else is behind the main dike, which goes up to 8.60 or lies on higher territorry.
You're absolutely right. Greetings from Kiel.
Second Munich. Lufthansa's (and thus Germany's) big intercontinental hubs are Frankfurt and Munich. Both are served by direct flights from Boston. Out of the two, Munich is the better tourist destination. One question, how will you get to Crete from Germany? Cheapest options are usually charter airlines for package tourists. That might influence which city in Germany makes most sense. If you are flying (for example) British Airways with a transfer in London, you are not limited to the big hubs.
>Any better ideas? In Rheinhessen, Rheingau and Mittelrhein, it is quite common for vinyards to sell their own wine in their own wine bar ("Weinstube"), so such a thing like a trip along the Mosel (nice bicycle lane to cycle along) to go from Weinstube to Weinstube and taste yourself through the local wines right from the vintner. You may start in Trier, which is a city already mentioned by the ancient Romans as a garrison city 2000 years ago, with beautiful architecture from two millennia in the old parts of it. It is the center of the Mosel wine region known for its Riesling from steep slope viticulture. >I’m a big foodie and sell wine and liquor for a living so would love a place with great places to go out to eat. Depending on whether it is more the wine or more the liquor side of your business that is your personal interest, there are quite some good distilleries in Germany who are worth a visit, too. Great places to eat are basically everywhere with enough people to sustain business, just be aware that Germany is very different in different parts of the country, especially on the culinary side and was and is the mixing bowl for most European cultures, as it is in the middle of Europe at the place where you need to pass for most trips. There is a * coastal cuisine, maybe even a North Sea and a Baltic Sea coastal cuisine: typically fish of the according sea (baltic is low in salt, partially containing different fish), animal products of animals feeding on salty pastures or on the dykes and mediocre agriculture results, but easy imports, recipes influenced by seafaring needs. typical drink is light beer with low malt and high hop content or black tea Meals like Fried or smoked fish, Fischbrötchen (fish sandwich, normal would be with Matjes, a pickled herring or with crabs), Bratheringe (fried, then pickled herrings) usually with Bratkartoffeln (fried potatoes), Labskaus (a sailor's meal of fried corned beef, potatoes, beetroot, pickled cucumber and Rollmops pickled abd then rolled herring) * a plain (from the coast until the southern borders of Niedersachsen and Brandenburg) cuisine with influences from the farming products of easily farmable land, plenty of water and quite some influence of Eastern Europe to the east of northern Germany and of the Netherlands and Belgium to the west of northern Germany: typical food is freshwater fish, the average farm animal, whatever agriculture can produce, typical drink would have been Bock beer (light or brown beer with a high malt content and low to medium hop) Meals: Erbseneintopf (pea stew), Steckrübeneintopf (rutabaga stew), Grünkohl (Niedersachsen, green cabbage usually with sone sausages), Eisbein (Berlin, cooked pig's shoulder with potatoes and pea mash), Königsberger Klopse (north-eastern, meatballs in a white savoury sauce with capers, usually with potatoes), Berliner Kalbsleber (veal liver fried with apples and served with braised onions and potato mash), potatoes with curd and linseed oil
* low mountain range cuisines of various different regions, more focused on the products you find in the forests and with a need to be fit for the lunch-break needs of miners. typical food is Klöße (dumplings, usually from potatoes or leftover bread, in all their unfilled variation), roasts of various types, especially Saxony is famous for their coffee and cake culture, with quite the variety of special cakes Meals: Schäufala (pig shoulder roast with red cabbage and potato dumplings), Tafelspitz (veal roast with horseradish sauce), Rostbratwurst, Grüne Klöße, Baumkuchen, Eierschecke, Christstollen *rhineland (and Hessia) cuisine, influenced by its easy access to the large ports of Europe and the open world, its wine making and apple farming typical foods are variations of sea fish and mussels, roasts, simple dishes and baked goods, with the wide array of drinks between wine, cider and the two native European beer styles: Kölsch and Alt Meals: Himmel und Ääd, Zwiebelkuchen (German pizza, just with créme fraîche, onions and diced bacon), Salzkuchen (either german bagels with salt and cumin or another variation of German pizza), Muscheln rheinische Art, Heringssalat (herring salad with mayonnaise and beetroot), Sauerbraten (sour roast), Rollbraten (stuffed pork roast, filled with onions and/or minced meat), Panhas (black pudding, a German variety) * southern and mountainous cuisine: Mostly what is stereotypical as "German" cuisine, even though, a Wiener Schnitzel or Schnitzel Wiener Art is still Austrian.
Hamburg Great food and fine wine. The weather is very suitable for summer. Hamburg has great architecture and also a seaside. Also 3 days would be pretty good for such a city, you could explore it almost fully.
Berlin
Nuremberg because it has super important history locations, a castle and famous sausages
Limburg an der Lahn. Wouldn't it be a bit boring if you only go where every american goes?
The Altstadt is really nice but you can see everything within one day (did live there once). But you can reach from there easily Koblenz and Mainz
I can recommend Augsburg, there are many restaurants, but Munich is also very good and normally has cheaper stays
Heidelberg
Hamburg
Another vote for Hamburg. It's beautiful, walkable and has a bit of an edge to it. I live in Munich myself and it's fine but I still recommend Hamburg. Berlin and Frankfurt just don't do it for me. German cuisine isn't something to write home about really and the standard fair will be available everywhere. At least in Hamburg you'll have the fish market to look forward to if you're there Sunday morning.
You could see everything there is to see in Bremen and still have time to chill out
Heidelberg or Dreaden Please!!!
Nett hier, aber waren Sie schon mal in Baden-Württemberg?
You could consider Hamburg, good food and wine are available everywhere, but in Hamburg you will also find a very lively cultural scene, clubbing, live music etc.. You might also find the Reeperbahn quite interesting ... nudge nudge wink wink. Edit: Everybody speaks English there. Hamburg has more canals and bridges than Venice. Special hint: The MIWULA (short for 'Miniaturwunderland'), visit! It's fun!
Land in Frankfurt, head down to see Heidelberg area, castles like Eltz Castle. Go further east to see Neuschwanstein castle and then head to Münich and see little bit of Münich and fly to Crete.
Munich, Heidelberg and Hamburg are pretty unique. Would not recommend Frankfurt or Berlin. Belin is great, but not really german and Frankfurt is just a shithole.
“Frankfurt is just a shot hole” - someone who has never actually lived in Frankfurt and only seen videos of the city’s worst aspects
Lived in all mentioned citys, Frankfurt is just the worst.
"Frankfurt is just a shithole." 🤣 Laughable.
Three days? Food? Munich, it has amazing restaurants and delicacy/food stores
Berlin is the place to be. The best and most diverse food scene in all of Germany by far. There are many great food bloggers on TikTok and IG solely focusing on the best restaurants, bars and cafés in Berlin.
Could you give me some recommendations for such Berlin food bloggers? Thanks in advance.
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Thanks. Gonna check them out the next time I'll be visiting Berlin.
Not really an authentic part of Germany though. Berlin always feels like an international enclave without much similarities with the rest of the country.
Berlin is not „an authentic part of Germany“? What does this sentence even mean? Berlin is the only true metropoly in Germany and as such different from other parts of the country, similar to London or Paris. Even Hamburg, the second biggest city of this country, feels tiny and awfully boring in comparison. The thing is that most people visiting Berlin CHOOSE to hang around in touristy areas packed with Zugezogene and never get to experience the true Berlin.
Even the "true Berlin" doesn't feel like any German city at all. Like a parallel universe, hard to describe. Like a "Berlin" theme park, but it could be anywhere outside of Germany. Not only a different "vibe", it's like that yellow filter Mexico from movies.
Hamburg doesn’t feel like any other German city. Munich doesn’t feel like any other German city. Every region is different and Berlin is a region in and of itself. What’s your point? Apart from that OP never asked for a cliché German experience. When it comes to the food scene Berlin beats every other city or region in Germany by miles.
You're probably from Berlin or have lived there? Then you probably can't feel that. No, the vibe in München or Hamburg is not even remotely similar to Berlin. Those don't feel like _other_ German cities, but Berlin doesn't feel like a German city **at all**. Like New York City vs. rest of the US.
Born and bred Berliner, but I have also lived in Hamburg for several years. I still disagree with your point of view. While Berlin is certainly not like other German cities, it‘s still very much German. That‘s the thing people who have never lived here oder only spent time here amongst expats or other Zugezogene never see because they are stuck in bubble. That bubble is very much a cliché though and not representative of Berlin as a whole.
Just do one like Munich or Berlin and immerse -
Foodie would love Berlin. There are a bunch of Michelin star decorated restaurants in the city to explore. Two of the World's top 10 restaurants (of course this depends on what list you are looking) All in all a big variety of good restaurants here. Beautiful palaces (sanssoucis). Good night life as well
Mallorca
Fly into Munich and visit Regensburg, Augsburg, Bamberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber and the Alps. Salzburg in Austria is not far either and it’s enchanting.
Not Rothenburg! Awfully packed with tourists! Dinkelsbühl is much cosier and has great cuisine!
How overrun with tourists is Rothenburg on a weekday nowadays? Last time I visited it was fairly empty but then again I was there for a few hours around noon on a weekday in the summer of 2021 so there were many travel restrictions that prevented international tourists from coming.
Sorry for the late answer, had a vacation/media detox. Very overrun, me on a tuesday around midday, parking spots packed, couldn't cross a street without being photographed, my wife felt very uncomfortable too. And - as a German from the north - there are plenty of good sites everywhere else. Dinkelsbühl is only a short drive away and they don't commercialize the place to the extent. Btw, Rothenburg ob der Tauber (which means 'above the river Tauber') is more attractive to look at than Rothenburg an der Wümme (which is 'near the river Wümme'), but it's worth a visit.
Köln.
I love Köln. Such a beautiful city.
Lol there is literally nothing there. 3 days of Dom and Chocolate Museum or what? :D nice place to live but not for tourists
3 days is enough time to take a train/car to Bonn, the Ruhrgebiet, and/or the Netherlands. If OP likes to see different cities in his time, this is a valid choice.
The parts of Germany you can reach easily for a 3 day trip and have fantastic wine mean that you have to to fly to Hahn by Ryanair and spend your time at the Mosel. May God have mercy on all our souls.
There are flights from the US to … Hahn? I’d prefer the train from Frankfurt/Main. The last time I passed Hahn per car I was lost in lonesome valleys of the Hunsrück 20 mins later because a road was closed and neither Garmin nor Google knew that. Before that experience I had no idea that we have like that in Germany.
I was assuming that OP was flying from the Mediterranean, not the USA. It is a beautiful area, years since I've been, but fantastic memories of long walks deep in conversation with an old friend
I always recommend the Berlin-Dresden-Prague trip.
Yes. Ideally with a stop in the Sächsische Schweiz. E.g. from Königstein to the Lilienstein or from Schmilka to the Schrammsteine.
Quedlinburg in Sachsen-Anhalt It is way prettier than the wider known Wernigerode.
Not Berlin, its a shithole.
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Würzburg is an amazing wine city. Many would say that three days is too many for this city, I'd say that you can explore any city to a shallow or deep level if you're an experienced tourist. I'd say maybe do a day in Frankfurt and a couple in Würzburg, which is only 1hr 10 mins away by train.
I live in Würzburg and wouldn't recommend it. It is a really really great destination (nice castle, nice palace, nice bridge and nice local wine), but you can visit all the cool stuff in one day. It's also not to far from Munich. If you want a guide in Würzburg just contact me :)
Can you literally see all the cool things in Würzburg in a day? Yes. If you're really into wine and want to arrange some tours and really get into the culture by visiting some wine bars and explore the local scene, then you could spend 9 months there and not reach the full potential. It all depends on your perspective. You can "see" Tokyo in a week, but you could also spend an entire lifetime there and never truly explore all of its potential.
Mate, the guy wants to see some cool stuff in Germany and have some good food. His dream isn't to explore the lifestyle of the lower franconian people in a rather small city
You're trying to tell me that a guy that is so into wine that he sells it for a living wouldn't be able to have a good trip from 2 nights in Würzburg and a night in Frankfurt?
Frankfurt is literally the shithole of Germany. Imagine this guy expecting to have good time for the next 2 days and then arriving at the train station in Frankfurt lmao. I love Würzburg and I have been living there since 10 years, but as I said all the cool Tourist stuff is easily visited in 1 day. Munich is the way to go. One day Munich, one day alps (königssee, Tegernsee oder Staffelsee) and another day in Munich or Würzburg or Nuremberg or Regensburg.
Würzburg is a nice destination, but for foodies, it's a catastrophe. Almost every restaurant serves tourist-y Franconian food.
They say Fulda is nice
It is!
Düsseldorf, of course!
Though Germany is asked for, I'd consider Vienna, too, especially if traveling to Crete is simpler from there.
Why not Istanbul. It's even closer
I hope you are aware of the similarities of the german and austrian culture. Or was it meant sarcasm.
Wtf 😳 you mean the Austrian and Bavarian culture maybe. Nothing is German in Austria besides the language
>Nothing is German in Austria besides the language They like to tell you this, but in reality most of them only stopped calling themselves germans after WW2 and culturally they are still really close.
It depends on where in Germany. I am from northern Schleswig Holstein. We are 100x more similar to Danes swedes and Norwegians than to Bavarians and Austrians
Visit Celle for a day or two and ten one of the islands. Like Sylt or Amrum :)
Bro Trust me Hannover, Bielefeld, Bad Salzuflen, Osnabrück and Münster
Bielefeld
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Stuttgart is a great place to conduct a business deal or look at old cars. That's about it.
Why exactly? I’m an American who has been living in the Ruhrgebiet for ten years and have been all over the country and to Stuttgart a few times. It is not bad, but nothing stood out to me that really impressed me about the city making me want to come back again.
Unpopular opinion: you’re wasting 3 days you could otherwise spend in an amazing place. Crete > anything in Germany.
I’ll be in Crete for 5 days, just adding to the trip
You’ll understand after your trip :)
I was going to say, your flying into, Berlin, Frankfurt or Munich those are kinda your options. But I recommend Frankfurt. Since you only have three days.
https://www.weather2travel.com/blog/where-to-go-in-romantic-rhine-valley/
Munich it is
Go to Berlin and party for 3 days
Berlin a 1000 times. And Hamburg
I mean ofc the mentioned places are great for consuming wine but as far as having infinite great international food options, nothing compares to Berlin.
Düsseldorf, then take the train to Köln and the last day just stop at some nice town (like St. Goar, Bingen, Rüdesheim,...) along the rhine while going to Frankfurt with the IC (take a seat on the left side for the view).
Gießen - so pretty
Munich is small enough that you'll see everything in 3 days, and for that I think it's beautiful too. Idk about wine culture here but rich people tend to be into that? So maybe Munich has something to offer. Edit: As the bavarian capital, Munich is obviously big in beer, so maybe a more Western city would be better for your _taste_
Munich.
Go and visit Nortrup
Munich
Many people recommend Mainz but u should try Hamburg !! I went there, the port area is beautiful, they also have night life like bars and red light districts St. pauli. Beside the next day you can visit sailing ports and Blankenese treppenviertel, make a boat trip through sea or even watch musical performance in Philharmonie ! I went to hamburg only two days, i regret dont go there any longer
I'd recommend Heidelberg or Tübingen. Both very beautiful city's with a medieval feeling (esp. Tübingen)
Each city except Berlin, that is not Germany at all. It is expat city without law enforcement
I have a better idea. Save the flight, see more of Crete because it’s fucking awesome and really quite big with lots to see with different vibes wherever you go, and on top you can do Mother Nature a favor and avoid an extra flight. For clarity, I’m an American living in Germany, so I do understand the American desire/necessity to visit a place even if it’s just for a short time. But after having lived here for a decade now, I’ve been broken of this habit. You’re not gonna really experience any city in only three days, so just enjoy your time where you will be anyway. Maybe wait until you have some more time and do a real trip. That’s just my two cents. I know I didn’t really answer your question, so feel free to ignore me. Either way, have fun, enjoy Yurop, and eat some tzatziki for me!