[Rick Lee]

You can easily spend more money and a lot more time dealing with public transp., especially for two people, than a rental car will cost per day. If you don't speak and read German, good luck. Sure, you can get anywhere on a train in Germany. But it's not cheap and you work on their schedule, not your own. Munich is very easy to get around by S-Bahn IF you know what you're doing and how it all works. Parking in Munich is pretty bad.