Good hotels with secure parking near zuffenhausen

[Monty2]

Hi for one reason and another I'm sure many of you may have visited Porsche Factory and museum. We are planning a short holiday trip to the Stuttgart area in November and would welcome any fairly recent good hotel feedback, I tend to favour out of town places but as most of us I would like to know my Turbo is secure at night. If you have any additional Porsche or car themed "must visit" information it woud also be appreciated.

Many Thanks

Paul

 

[Mark_Bennett]

Here are a few threads from previous queries:

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Funnily enough, you won't need secure parking []

 

[garyw]

Paul
I'm sure you read the thread on the Swiss trip..(I hope you did [])
The Mercedes museum is well worthwhile and showed Porsche the way in respect to museums for sure[8D] following the timeline of the develpoment of Mercedes was very good

Just North of Stuttgart is the Sinsheim Museum which is car, train, boat and plane interesting - they have a reasonable hotel on-site but may be a bit out of town for you (about 30minutes from the Factory)

http://www.mercedes-benz-classic.com/content/classic/mpc/mpc_classic_website/en/mpc_home/mbc/home/museum/overview_museum.html

http://en.sinsheim.technik-museum.de/auto-technik-museum-sinsheim

Don't forget the new emissions disc you will need to buy to enter the city legally....
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=228347

Whether visitors are being checked is another thing though.. the factory and museum ARE in the zone..

garyw

 

[blueSL]

I'd recommend the hotel the Club uses for factory visits, the Hotel Adler in Asperg about 20 minutes from Zuffenhausen.

They have some (open) garage spaces under the hotel, but I really wouldn't worry. Germans are much more respectful of other people's property and I would quite happily leave my car parked in the hotel car park across the street without a second's thought.

As for what to see and do, so much. Porsche Museum, Mercedes Museum, Sinsheim, Speyer, Schloss Langenburg, lunch on the terrace, Black Forest, Nurburgring and so on. Germany is a hugely underrated country to visit.

 

[Monty2]

Thanks all, for advice and links. Hotel Adler looks within our price range and has vacancies (I'll mention PCGB when booking). We have people to visit in Holland en route so Hook v holland will be start of trip plus it give us a chance to revisit where we lived in Germany for 3 years before heading to Stuttgart.
Just have to decide whether to book a factory tour or settle for Museum.

Cheers

Paul

 

[Mark_Bennett]

Why would you go all that way and not spend 90 min on the tour?

It's always interesting - even for the "uninterested" partners that sometimes get dragged on to it - and always say after how good it was![]

 

[Monty2]

I'll be looking to book the tour then, thanks Mark.
Just found out I can do a factory tour where my new A6 was built at Necklesarum where 924 and 944s were built originally, just 45 minutes up the road from Stuttgart.
Itinery starting to get pretty packed with wanting to ake use of the good roads aswell.

Paul

 

[garyw]

Paul, make a note of them(good roads)
I was looking at a Germany trip for the future... black forest and the Rhine along with a few castles [] and plenty of excellent roads...

But this one might be more famous []

garyw

 

[Monty2]

Hi Gary,
I'll ask Jean to make notes en route, that'll stop her falling asleep!
A few years ago found this valley road near freiburg, it was fun in a Range Rover x10 that in a Porsche.
Thought about pushing the boat out and booking the Porsche apartment at De Adler but maybe not this time shame its not a company visit.

Paul