Car Hire

Finding a good car hire company can be daunting. I have read so many different reviews about car hire companies, and I saw plenty of them had bad experiences. I have read so many reviews with car hire companies, and the the best of them are down to these two – Europcar and SIXT.

In the end, we decided to choose SIXT, as their price were more competitive. However, in my past car hire experiences (for any car hire company), the type of car that was pre-booked normally would not be available. This time it was no different, we were forced to upgrade to a bigger vehicle. Thankfully the car I got did not disappoint me. I was able to get a car large enough to fit in 4 luggages, without any hindrance to comfortability for the four of us in the car.

Accomodation

We stayed at a house around 1 hour drive east of Munich. The reason is a shorter drive to our visit to Salzburg for the next few days. Also, it was almost impossible to find a house within Munich at a reasonable price. In Munich city, we could have hire a small apartment at best. However, we want to be comfortable and ended up living in a 3 bedroom house in the suburb of Siegsdorf.

Note that in Germany most supermarkets were closed on Sundays. We fell into that trap in our previous trip to Germany and were in hungry in the first night. This time I did my research and discovered that there were a small number of supermarkets opens on Sundays. There were several of them at the Munich main station, we ended up at Edeka as they were some parking available (at a small fee) beside the store.

Destination

1. Deutsche Museum

Getting Parking wasn’t easy. We were lucky able to park on the street. Given that we arrived on a Sunday, there were some parking space available in Munich city centre along with street, as per picture above. Given that it was on the weekend, the queue was quite long. We waited for around 30 minutes, as we arrived quite early in the morning around 10am. I strongly advised to make booking before arrival, especially on the weekend.

The most fascinating site in the Museum were the fighter planes during the World War, these planes were kept very well despite already more than 50 years old.