DAY 1 & 2
We departed Las Vegas for Munich early morning Thursday September 17, 2015 on American/US Airways. We connected in Philadelphia, and arrived in Munich around 0930 the following morning Friday September 18, 2015.
The flight from the West Coast is extremely long, as we lost an entire day traveling. It was an uncomfortable flight in coach, and if I had to do it again I would pay the extra money to fly business class or at least premium economy.
As soon as we cleared immigration in Munich, the SiXT driver was waiting for us at the baggage claim. He drove us to our hotel in a new 7 series. On my last ED I used Rolf, but chose to use the free SiXT service BMW provides this time. Both were equally as good. The SiXT driver was very informative about the area, and even recommended some restaurants near our hotel and told us about many of the traffic rules.
We stayed at the Hotel Blauer Bock, which is right next to the Viktualienmarkt. The hotel was in a great location, and was clean and nice. They also had a good free breakfast spread each morning.
We took a 2 hour nap, and met Racerstf and his mother at our hotel to do a walking tour of Munich. We went to the Viktualienmarkt, where we grabbed some "bio" bratwurst at Kleiner Ochs'nbrater. When you see "bio" on German food it means organic. This was the best brat we had on our whole trip! We then climbed the 306 stairs to the top of Peterskirche to burn off lunch. We then checked out the shops in the Pedestrian Zone and Maximilianstrase,before heading to Marienplatz and watching the Glockenspiel at 1700. We walked through the Hafbrauhaus to have a beer, but it was jammed packed full of pre-Oktberfest revelers and therefore could not get an open table. We then walked through the Hofgarten to the Englischer Garten where we checked out the surfers in the Eisbach. Finally, we got to sit down and enjoy dinner at the Augustiner Klosterwirt. It was a great traditional German food and beer. We planed to go out to the bars and clubs the rest of the evening, but the jet-lag finally caught up to us, and we decided to stay in and catch up on sleep the rest of the night.