Christmas
Strasbourg Christmas Market Coach Tours and Breaks
Three or four day Alsace Christmas breaks sell well and are badly documented. Where the hotel is, when the coach leaves,…
Driving to the Strasbourg Christmas Market
You do not need a car for Strasbourg itself. If you have hired one to tour Alsace, here is where to leave it and what th…
Getting to the Strasbourg Christmas Market by Train
From Paris it is straightforward. From London it is a half day with one change, and not a day trip. And the last train n…
Colmar or Strasbourg Christmas Market: Which One
Half an hour apart on the same line, and one of them shuts on 24 December. Your travel dates decide this more than any o…
Alsace Christmas Markets From Strasbourg
Which Alsace villages are worth the trip, and which ones swallow a whole day in buses. The markets ranked by how hard th…
A Christmas Market Weekend in Strasbourg
Book the room before the train, avoid Saturday, and build the two days yourself instead of buying a package. The method,…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: 40 Questions Answered
Dates, hours, prices, crowds, trams, luggage, dogs, Colmar: the questions readers actually send us, answered short and g…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: Crowds, Weather, Security
The official crowd table day by day, what December really feels like outdoors, the bag searches at the entrances, and wh…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: Accessibility
Free wheelchair loan, a signed accessible route, priority lanes and adapted tours. The scheme is real and serious. So ar…
Strasbourg Christmas Market for Couples
At 5pm on a Saturday you will not be holding hands, you will be holding on. The romantic version exists, but it happens …
Strasbourg Christmas Market with Kids
With children the problem is never a lack of things to do. It is the cold, the crowd and the tiredness. The slots, the f…
Where to Eat at Strasbourg Christmas Market
At 7.30pm in December there are two kinds of visitor: those with a table booked, and those walking past full signs. The …
What to Buy at Strasbourg Christmas Market
Soufflenheim pottery, a Meisenthal glass bauble, kelsch cloth, protected fir honey: what is genuinely made in Alsace, wh…
Mulled Wine and Bredele: What You Will Pay
Mulled wine runs €3 to €7 depending on the chalet, a tarte flambée passes €10, and bredele biscuits sell for €20 to €55 …
Strasbourg's Smaller Christmas Markets
Two squares out of eight hold nearly 40% of the chalets and most of the crowd. The other six are ten minutes away, slowe…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: Concerts, Crib and Events
The chalets are only half of it. Advent concerts in the churches, an 18-metre nativity crib in the cathedral, a guest co…
History of the Strasbourg Christmas Market
It began with a sermon in 1570, nearly died in the 1970s and came back as the biggest event in France. Four and a half c…
Strasbourg's Great Christmas Tree, Place Kléber
Thirty metres of fir, chosen in the Vosges in spring and trucked in at five in the morning. How the largest decorated tr…
Christkindelsmärik, Place Broglie: the 1570 Market
What the impossible name means, who the Christkindel actually is, what the 65 chalets on Broglie really sell, and what a…
Strasbourg Christmas Markets Map: the Nine Sites
There is no single Christmas market in Strasbourg but nine, spread across one island. Here is each site, what it sells, …
Where to Stay for the Strasbourg Christmas Market
The four neighbourhoods that work in December, what each one really costs, when to book them, and the three traps that r…
Strasbourg Christmas Market Hotels: 11 Checked Picks
Eleven hotels with the walk from Place Broglie measured, plus the security perimeter nobody warns you about and the five…
Strasbourg Christmas Market Dates and Opening Hours
What the city has actually confirmed, what comes from the pattern of past editions, and the exact hours day by day, incl…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: The Complete Guide
Europe's oldest Christmas market from a visitor's point of view: what the city has confirmed, which of the nine sites ea…
Colmar Christmas Market: What It Is Really Like
Six Christmas markets across one small old town, half an hour by train from Strasbourg, and crowds the photographs never…