Getting around Germany (flight / travel strategy)
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Start at the end, by arranging the flight out of Germany. Choose the city of departure that is the most convenient regarding prices and schedules. This way you will have fixed three parameters: the arrival in Bucharest and departure from Bucharest as well as the departure from Germany.
Then, choose a flight between Bucharest and Germany. Choose again a flight that is convenient regarding price and schedule.
Now you can fill in the “gap” between the arrival in Germany and your departure. That should be easy ass you already have plenty of ideas in mind.
Use your favourite flight search engine to find out about flights between Bucharest and Germany. As you need a one-way flight, you could have a look at the following companies: Germanwings, Wizzair and Air Berlin.
You seem to be focused on cities. In that case, renting a car does not really make sense. There are excellent train and bus connections between the German cities. Germany used to have “nice” highways some time ago. Now they are crowded, in a bad shape or subject to construction works.
It is not a problem either to fit Vienna into your plans. You can then fly from Bucharest into Vienna. Use again your favourite search engine. One company to have a look at is Niki. Alternatively, you can take a direct night train from Bucharest to Vienna. From Vienna you can continue by an ICE or Railjet high-speed train to Germany.
There are some threads on this site that may be of interest to you:
Places worth visiting by train from Munich to Berlin
How to travel (relatively) cheaply by ICE trains in Germany?
Cheap bus lines in Germany, something like Orangeways?
You can also browse through the GERMANY tag on this site:
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If this doesn't affect the price of your flight tickets, I would suggest to fly to one city, e.g. Berlin, drive to the other end of Germany, eg. Munich while stopping at Frankfurt or Nuremberg and then fly home.
I see little sense in driving back to the arrival airport, unless this affects the price of the flight tickets or the rental car (one-way rentals are usually more expensive).
Frankfurt and Munich have probably the most connections to the US, Berlin not so much.
Driving from Germany to Austria and back should be no problem (check with the rental agency!), however renting the car in Germany and giving it back in Vienna could be a problem (or expensive).
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In a nutshell, everything is possible: dropping the car off in another German city, renting in Austria and dropping it off in Germany or vice versa. You will pay a premium for one-way rentals and then extra on top of that for cross-border one-way rentals. But you can do it with all the major international brands.
Beyond that, German motorways are not quite what they used to be but driving around the country is reasonably fast and easy, if that's what you want to do. I have crossed it several times (from the Austrian border to the Netherlands or from the French border to Berlin) in less than a day, no problem at all (I usually drive around 110 mph where possible).
Forgoing getting a car entirely and going around by train is also a perfectly reasonable option in Germany/Central Europe, at least if you want to focus on cities and not on more rural areas like the Rhine valley, Black Forrest, etc.
From Vienna you can also easily include other neighbouring countries, at the very least Prague and the Czech Republic on the way to Berlin. But I could also easily spend ten days in one region or a couple of cities in Germany (although if you are from the US and not coming to Europe frequently, I can see why you would want to cram as much as possible in this one trip).
If you want to rent a car, check the fine print: Germany/Austria/Switzerland/France is almost certainly fine but further east some rental companies or class of cars might have additional restrictions, the contract will list which countries are included.
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