Dachau is a place I have not yet been. I am versed in much of the history but not everything, and now I think it is time my children see and experience some of this. They are a bit young but lessons about life, death, humility, etc must be learned nonetheless.

Does anybody have thoughts on my wife and I taking our 10 year old daughter and 8 year old son to see this place?

We will be in Munich proper for 2 days/nights and staying near the München Hauptbahnhof, the city's main train station, and one of our days there can be for this trip if it's appropriate/doable. This is our best chance of going there for a while now.

Later in our trip we will be doing many of the things already shown in the thread, some of which I have seen but want to take them to such as Garmisch-Partenkirchen (staying in a B&B not in town centre), Neuschwanstein Castle, lakes and hikes in the areas, and later a drive to Salzburg where we stay next.

We leave for Munich on July 11 from BOS and arrive on July 12. I was considering the Dachau trip for the 13th.

I anyone has tips or advice on it, please post or PM. If people have best tips on getting there by train, etc, please let me know. We can change our car rental that we have reserved for July 14 to drive to Garmisch and later Salzburg but we would rather not do that if possible.

Thanks,

MM