Walk home after the performance

It is getting back. And parking.

The car parks around Theaterplatz are full and expensive on performance nights, and hunting for a space an hour before curtain-up is no way to start the evening. Here a parking space belongs to the apartment – you park once and leave the car there.

Afterwards you either walk back – twenty minutes along the river, in summer the best part of the evening – or take the tram. Trams run until around 00:45 every half hour, then the night lines take over.

The useful part: at Postplatz, five minutes on foot from the Semperoper, all night lines meet at the same time. If one is late, the others wait. So you need not watch the clock while the applause is still going.

• Iron and ironing board are in the apartment. After a train journey a jacket usually needs one.
• Check-in around the clock. If your train gets in at nine in the evening, nobody is waiting up for you – the access code arrives beforehand.
• Dinner first: the old town charges theatre prices. Friedrichstadt and Löbtau have neighbourhood restaurants where you can sit in peace before the performance.
• Tickets: the Semperoper programme is published far in advance. Once you have the ticket, book the room as well – Dresden fills up for premieres and in Advent.