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Old 06-28-2015, 12:45 PM
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Default Taking Euro Delivery of GT3 in September. Advice for Car Parks?

We are picking up a GT3 in Stuttgart in September for our 20th wedding anniversary. We will be doing a Porsche tour, but have a few extra days where we will be driving the car on the 'Ring and at Spa.

We were thinking of going to Luxembourg and maybe to Brugges, but I'm wondering about parking the car.

Does anyone have good advice for hotels with good parking? We obviously want to keep the new baby safe before her trans-Atlantic trip!
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Congrats on the purchase. If you want I can give a few suggestions depending on your dates. Will you ship the car from Antwerp?
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CONGRATS ON THE NEW CAR! Don't forget that the parking spaces in Europe are made for roller skates! I have lost count of the parking garages that I BARELY made it out of
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Katie,
We just spent a night at the Dorint Hotel in Nurburg, which is right on the GP section of the circuit. There was ample and safe parking in their underground parking facility and you are just about five minutes from the entrance to the Nordscheife. Hotel was very nice, race car-themed. Get a room on the track side and you can watch whatever is going on at the track from your balcony.
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Leave Jupeman home and take me.

Regardless we need Ring and Spa video!

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Why not go south from Zuffenhausen, better driving roads?
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Our itinerary includes roads in Austria, Italy, and the Schwartzwald. It should be pretty great. When we got a car for our 10th anniversary we drove it on the Nurburgring. We were very keen on doing this again, hence returning to that area, and Jupe wanted to try Spa and Hockenheim as well. Sadly, we couldn't manage a Hockenheim date.

We have contacted a hotel near the Nurburgring where we stayed 10 years ago. It's not right on the track, but the owners were a delightful German and English couple. She ran the hotel and he was the cook, and he made the most delicious omelets and soups! We're hoping to return there.

The car must be returned to Stuttgart....I don't know what they do with it from there! Antwerp? Maybe.

We have open dates on September 17th, September 20th, and then again the 23rd.



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