Hi, wonder if anyone has been to Dresden and has any feedback - good or bad. We are going on a family Interrail holiday over Easter and I’m trying to hang it around a gig or two. Plan is to spend a bit of time in Poland and this is on on the way there:
Which has enough bands that we’d want to see. But would mean nearly a week in Dresden to do the whole thing. Enough to do, aside from the festival? Things that the 6 & 10 year old would enjoy to do there? (Our 15 year old would be delighted with some gigging if anyone has info on the age restrictions that I ask in the thread above).
I’ve been to Dresden twice, probably my favourite German city.
In terms of what to do, the transport museum is a really good one. The art district too is really nice and plenty of cool places to shop/eat/drink. If you’re there for a Sunday a flea market is always good fun…Ooh and the funicular railway too. Can also use it as a base for a day trip to Leipzig which is a nice small city.
Can recommend a few decent places to eat too if you like, will just have to dig out the details.
Brilliant, thanks. Just the sort of info I was after (ie, it’s a place worth visiting). I’m still at the planning stage but may well come back to you for some more specifics if it gets off the ground.
I really like Dresden. Stayed in a hostel in Neustadt near the Alaunpark. Neustadt was really nice actually.
The city is easily walkable. The rebuilding of Altstadt after WW2 is amazing. And it’s a good base for little trips out to places like Leipzig. Also, the train line between Dresden and Prague is genuinely wonderful.
I can’t remember where I’d visited for drinks or food mind. Was 2010 when I was there. But would recommend it as a place stop off.
We did this a few years ago and visited Dresden! Our train from Berlin was delayed badly so we only got about three hours there before heading to Prague. Very visually appealing, would have loved to spend a lot longer there
What’s your overall itinerary, out of interest? We did our first Interrail trip when our daughters were 7 and 10 and they absolutely loved it
This’ll be our third Interrail trip. When our youngest was a baby we Interrailed home from Istanbul after spending some time in South Asia. And a couple of summers ago we went to Helsinki before flying home from there. Not the absolute cheapest way of doing things, but particularly with the free children’s tickets, picking the Interrail tickets up in a sale and using the Interrail days for overnighters or really expensive places (hello, Switzerland) they are great.
Our tentative plan this time is a few days on the Belgian coast, and overnighter from Brussels to Dresden, into Poland and back around to Berlin before an overnighter back to Brussels from there.
It’s a beautiful city.