Thanks for your input
@robbegong.
Few questions, do you think 3 nights in Alsace and Two nights in Burgundy is enough? Also, did you visit the two big cities in the region, Strasbourg and Dijon? We thought to spend one night in each but can change if there’s nothing interesting to see there.
I think if you can swing it, you’d appreciate 3 nights in each but you probably could get away with two in Burgundy. There is the medieval hospice to see in Beanue one afternoon/morning, and then a day doing a wine tour, plus you could see some of the countryside on your way in and out.
We didn’t visit either of the big cities other than to pick out car up at Strasbourg station, so I can’t comment, sorry. We were quite deliberately avoiding the larger cities just because of the kind of trip we were on and our personal level of interest in museums/city sights. The way it was described to me is that Colmar is in some ways a mini version of Strasbourg (in the sense of it having the nice old buildings and the canals like in Strasbourg, plus a big art gallery of its own).
Strasbourg and Colmar are about an hour drive from each other, with the wine route villages in between the two, so I reckon you’d end up exploring the area either way. If there are things in Strasbourg that catch your eye you could always day trip to Colmar (or vice versa).
Having said that you mentioned you were weighing up using Strasbourg as a base to visit the Black Forest too. We’d separately spent four nights relaxing outside of Baden-Baden and exploring the Black Forest before going to Alsace, and I do recommend that experience for sure!
Strasbourg would be closer for exploring Baden-Baden and the north Black Forest, but Colmar would be closer for a day trip to Freiburg and the southern Black Forest.