The first city trip of 2012 isn’t started yet but the next one is already planned. The planning started a couple of months ago during a FaceTime conversation when Yves and Joke told us they were planning a trip to Nürnberg in April 2012. Off course we are delighted by the 2 of them visiting us but they wanted to see more of Germany. We discussed a lot of options and then we told Berlin was on a driving distance of less than 450 kilometers from our home (4 hours driving).

So plans were made and last weekend Yves and Sander talked over FaceTime since bookings.com has some specials for April online. Yves and Joke booked a hotel in Nürnberg with a room-rate from less 40€ a night. And Yves is lucky since the Frühlingsfest is there during there stay in Nürnberg which means party and beer!

And for Berlin we’ve booked the Hotel am Zoo which is located on the Kurfüstendamm which is the most famous shopping street of the former West-Berlin. This is very close to the hotel where we slept last year and the location is perfect for a short trip and that with a room-rate from 60€ a night.

What we do in Berlin is up to Yves and Joke! The only things Danielle wants to do is shopping in the KaDeWe and getting some Dunkin’ Donuts! We are looking forward to this week already!

For a standard New York City trip you won’t need a rental car but as most of the readers know we are not going on a standard city trip. After the staying first 5 days in Manhattan we will travel to Staten island for the rehearsal dinner of the wedding we will attend. And from Staten Island we need to go to the party location in Garfield, New Jersey. This is almost impossible by public transportation which made us decide to rent a car for the last couple days.

For Danielle there is another important reason for renting a car. She wants to visit the 2 biggest Outlet centers in New Jersey and having a car to drive around makes this a lot easier.

As with our last 2 Florida trips we’ve booked our car with www.usa-reisen.de. And since I’m the one who is driving most of the time I got to pick the car type. This means it’s going to be a SUV again. The size should be comparable with a Chevrolet Equinox (see picture). I guess it will be big enough for the 2 of us.