We will dine in the most expensive place to eat on the grounds, $1.00 ($19.95) for an a la carte dinner as opposed to the 25 – 50-cent dinner you can get elsewhere on the grounds. But the food, German through and through, is made by the chefs of Luchow’s restaurant, the famous German restaurant in New York City, known for its Austrian and southern German cooking. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt ate here when he visited in May. We’ll hear the Royal Bavarian Band playing while we dine; their repertoire includes Wagner and Mozart, too.

You may ask why our dinner isn’t at a reduction since we are a tour group. What I was able to do is to receive assurances that our group will receive more prompt and attentive service than it is reputed ordinary tourists do. One person told me recently of her exasperating experience at this restaurant in trying to get waited on. She concluded, “In a German restaurant, the diners are the waiters!”