My Euro Delivery Trip Report

Here's my report from my second ED trip (October 2005).

Day 1: Arrival at MUC

Oct 26, Wednesday. My last leg of the long flight was AMS - MUC, having flown SFO - MSP - AMS the day/night before. We touched down at MUC around 9:15am, which would be about 20 hrs since I left my house. There was a bit of inconvenience because I was supposed to meet up with my cousin from Boston at AMS and fly AMS - MUC together. But his flight out of BOS was delayed so I didn't meet him at AMS and he had to take the later AMS - MUC flight.

I decided to wait for him at MUC for another 2.5 hrs. So I walked around the airport looking around and saw this display of BMW Oracle racing yacht and the M6!

After my cousin arrived, we went to our hotel by S8 to Marienplatz and transfer to U3 to Machtlfinger Straße for our hotel (Holiday Inn München-Sud).

The hotel is typical of modern European Holiday Inn and the room is a bit small. But it's very close to the U-bahn station (about 5-6 minutes walk), it has a spacious, gated underground garage. And for my dates of stay the price was right. There is a big Wal-Mart across from the U-bahn station with a nice food section to get quick bites (coffee, juice, pastry, sandwich, hot meals, etc). The hotel has internet access in the business center, but during my stay their internet access was down the whole time .

I can recommend this hotel to other EDers and I'll consider it for my future trip to Munich.

After settling in to our room, we went back to Marienplatz. We got there just in time for the 5pm glockenspiel play. The weather was absolutely gorgeous that afternoon. We walked around Viktualienmarkt for a while watching people drinking beers.

We were hungry so after a quick discussion with my cousin as to where we should go, we settled for Weisses Bräuhaus.

We had very good wheat beers and very delicious wursts . Needless to say, we overstuffed ourselves . After dinner, we walked around Marienplatz some more and then headed back to our hotel for a good night sleep. We need all the energy for the next day!

Day 2: Pickup car, Audi Forum & Factory Tour, Munich Factory Tour

Oct 27, Thursday. Today is my pickup day. We left our hotel early and took U6 to Freimann. I came by U6 also when I did my first ED 3 yrs ago so I already knew my way.

We got to the Euro Delivery gate around 8am. I've heard from some recent posts that the intercom was broken so I was wondering how I could get in if that's the case. But I pushed the button and the intercom was indeed working!

The lobby was pretty empty that morning. I gave my passport and delivery letter to the girl at the desk and proceeded to check out the brochure shelves underneath the stairs to the bistro. I picked up some nice BMW Individual brochures for the 6er, 7er, X5, etc. The current BMW Individual brochure is now a very nice hardbound books. They'll make a nice addition to my brochure collections .

We then proceeded upstairs to the bistro. Ordered some coffee, orange juices, croissants, etc. I asked the girl about the Bimmerfest book and as soon as I said Bimmerfest, she nodded and said "yes I know" .

Apparently that day there was another Bimmerfester from Scottsdale, AZ who was picking up thier car as I saw the entry dated also 10/26. But I didn't see them so we must've missed each other by minutes.

As I finished the food, my delivery guy came up and called my name. I immediately recognized him... Ernst Fortune. He was the same guy who did my delivery 3 yrs ago. He actually said that he remembered me too. So after a few signatures, we were ready to meet my new baby. Here she is: