Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• The inside scoop on the best beer halls, walking tours, mountain villages, and Bavarian alpine skiing and hiking trails.
• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• The inside scoop on the best beer halls, walking tours, mountain villages, and Bavarian alpine skiing and hiking trails.
• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

As a team of veteran travel writers, Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince have produced dozens of previous titles for Frommer’s, including guides to Europe, the Caribbean, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and parts of America’s Deep South. A film critic, columnist, and radio broadcaster, Porter is also a noted biographer of Hollywood celebrities, garnering critical acclaim for overviews of the life and times of, among others, Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hughes, and Michael Jackson. Prince was formerly employed by the Paris bureau of the New York Times and is today the president of Blood Moon Productions and other media-related firms. In 2008, Porter and Prince collaborated on the release of their newest book about Hollywood, sexuality, and sin as filtered through 85 years of celebrity excess, Hollywood Babylon—It’s Back!