Leipzig (Germany)

Advantages: Cheap and easy to get there
Disadvantages: Limited flights and times

Leipzig is found in the Saxony region of East Germany and was in the former GDR. Since the wall came down Leipzig has lost about 200,000 inhabitants, leaving about 400,000, and has also undergone considerable regeneration. 2006 sees the city host some of the early stage World Cup matches at their large sports stadium. Although none of the England games will be played there, the World Cup puts Leipzig firmly on the world football map. Since Air Berlin ...
...stretch. So why choose Leipzig for an alternative city break? There are quite a few good reasons, good sightseeing, great shopping, fabulous food and friendly locals to name a few. Flying with Air Berlin, you will arrive a Leipzig/Halle airport which is about a 25 minute drive from the city centre. If you don't know a friendly local to pick you up, try a taxi which will set you back about €25-€30 even at 4.30am! Getting around the city is incredibly ... Read review

Advantages: Culture, Sport
Disadvantages: Nightlife

Leipzig is at home and abroad known well as town of the oldest German sample fair and till 1989 turntable of the east west trade particularly with business people of the older generation. Some of the visitors then from the west also like to remember better years for certain inhabitants of Leipzig far from the native country and the local stove around their physical welfare during the fair has cared, as himself pretty. Leipzig also was and is a town ...
...mornings from today. However, Leipzig tries also to make a name for itself as medium town as a town with an exhibition centre as a town of the trade and the services newly. Leipzig is located in the fertile Leipzig lowlands bay, farming, fruit and vegetable-growing play a role to be not underestimated in the territory. I praise my Leipzig, I shall have said once a well-known personality and the man was right. Traffic Leipzig has a good fully developed ... Read review

Advantages: lots to do, historical interest, easy to get around, cheap
Disadvantages: better to know the language, not for families

...East German past that makes Leipzig a fascinating destination. It also makes it a cheap one as prices in the East are still lower than in the West. Visitors keen to discover the history would do well to have a good working knowledge of the German language. There are many museums dedicated to this period of history, the most notable being the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum on the Grimmaische Strasse covering the entire period of 1945 to 1990 as well as ...
...by public transport. Leipzig is a shopper’s paradise. The town centre is easily accessible and predominantly pedestranised. You won’t find British chain stores (although if you’re there for many length of time the British Store is worth a visit for imports of traditional British products, albeit at a price), but you will find all manner of European stores with low prices to match. The train station also boasts a three story shopping ... Read review

Advantages: cheapish, intriguing, some amazing buildings
Disadvantages: it's still a bit grim

Leipzig wil not be everyone's cup of tea as far as a holiday destination goes. It shows it's industrial past, and is still very much under reconstruction. But if you could fit it into a tour of Germany on a day visit, then you'll find a prime example of how the former East is being restored following the collapse of Communism at the turn of the 90's; one of the main reasons for me going there as a postgraduate housing student. Leipzig is gradually ...
...Formerly housing over 700,000 people, Leipzig is now home to just 400,000, and the depopulation shows. Houses stand in disrepair, a shame given some of their architectural niceties, although the monotony of so many four storey flats all looking the same does become tedious. Some are being knocked down, others stand empty as no-one can find the owners who rushed to the West when the wall came down - which also leads to the vaguely surreal sites of ... Read review

Advantages: class and comfort
Disadvantages: slightly pricey for long stays

...You'll see the Westin in Leipzig even from the air! With its 27 floors it is one of the most imponent building in the city, conveniently located 5 minutes walk from the main train station and just 10 minutes walk from the city centre and the shopping area. It has recently gone through extensive renovations and the results are impressive. A massive lobby with lots of seats, 2 bars, friendly and extremely professional staff. The rooms are very comfortable and very very clean. The room service is excellent and the breakfast is absolutely impressive! There is a splendid bar on the 27th floor and the view is breath-taking. Excellent value for money if you wish to enjoy class and comfort to explore one of the most beautiful cities in Germany.... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful
Disadvantages: Not central

...I spent last year in Germany and was in Leipzig very close to Dresden. My German friends, who were also residents of Dresden, would frequently mention Moritzburg as the perfect place to end any visit to Dresden. After many visits to Dresen this wisdom suddenly returned to me when I was taking a visiting parties ofd relatives to Dresden for the fourth or fifth time. We had exhausted most of the usual tourist haunts of Dresden and this particularly adventurous and tireless aunt and uncle were hungry for more. So we jumped on the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof and headed off on the fifteen minute ride to Moritzburg. The return fair from Dresden to Moritzburg was about five Euros. (I subsequently found out that you can also get there by bus from the Marktplatz for about four Euros return, but it takes about half an hour.) When we got... Read review

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Advantages: Good website, nice rates.
Disadvantages: Sometime terrible service

...I am quite the type of business traveller, so I know that you can have good and bad experiences with every rental car company. There have been times, when I rode a lot more mileage on rental cars than on my own. So I am not saying, Europcar is a bad company, but I had a rather bad experience, so just read on your own… Once upon a time my wife and I had to make a little trip from Munich to Leipzig (Germany). We actually were planning on doing this by car, so we can have a few stops and visit a view places on the way. But of course destiny can be cruel and so can be traffic forecasts on the radio. They were predicting a lot of traffic on the Saturday we wanted to go there, so we decided to take a train there and a rental car back for our sightseeing program. Usually I rent cars with Sixt here. I did for many years and I never really got... Read review

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