Christmas Market Routes

See more Christmas markets.Change hotels less.

Complete, tested European Christmas market routes built around comfortable hotel bases, easy train days, and enough unhurried time to actually enjoy the markets.

Every route we publish is one we traveled first.

Heidelberg Castle and the Old Bridge above the Neckar river, seen on Route No. 01

Route No. 01

The Frankfurt Christmas Market Loop

Ten Days · Six Christmas Cities · Three Hotel Bases

Cologne, Ulm and Frankfurt as comfortable bases, with easy day trips to Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Mainz. One rail loop through western and southern Germany, planned so you unpack three times instead of six and still have room to linger.

Cologne · Ulm · Stuttgart · Frankfurt · Heidelberg · Mainz

View Route No. 01

The Library Is Growing

One route today. More once we have walked them.

We add a route only after we have traveled the whole thing ourselves, checked the trains, slept in the hotels and stood in the markets. Route No. 02 is in the works.