We are flying into Berlin on September 24th and out of Berlin on October 8th
If your flights aren't finalized you're better off buying an open jaw ticket, ie a ticket where you fly into one city and leave from another city. In your case home - Munich, Berlin - home.
We'll have a rental car for the duration of the trip and want to visit Oktoberfest in Munich as well as possibly Prague and Vienna.
Right now our rough plan is to drive straight down to munich for the weekend and then make our way back up through the other cities. I would really appreciate any advice you all could give me on the trip.
I'd avoid a rental car as the cities you list are easy to get using the train.
[QUOTE]Do you recommend trying to visit Berlin, Munich, Vienna, and Prague? How about Dresden? [QUOTE]
Berlin - museums, parliament, WWII sights, cold war sights.
Munich - beer, BMW (Audi is an easy day trip from Munich too if you like cars), other day trips from Munich:- Neuchwanstein and Salzburg, Austria.
Vienna - the Hapsburgh Dynasty. Easy day trips:- Melk Abbey, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Prague - Old City, a city to stroll around and get lost in. Lots of touts and tourist scams to be aware of.
Dresden - the Green Vault, Frauenkirche.
The sights I list above are by no means complete. All the cities you mention are different. Your best bet is to get a guidebook and read about the sights in each city, then decide where you'd like to go. You Tube videos and DK Eyewitness guidebooks can help you visualize the sights in the different cities.