Alps Road Trip 2014 Itinerary
The words in
Italic are my mates route plans, most of my comments are under the hotel listings.
My photos for this trip are here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/urbannivag/sets/72157645279087579/
Day 1: Saturday 5th July 2014 - Germany
Booking.com Link:
bit.ly
Hotel Name: Sängerheim Rachtig
Address: Gestadestr. 5, D-54492 Zeltingen-Rachtig, Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)6532 3659
Website:
Sängerheim-Rachtig.de
Clean rooms, we were in a separate building from the main hotel about 200 yards away. The owner cleared the patio and allowed us to park our bikes off the road and undercover, nice!
Food in the hotel was good and staff friendly.
Not much else nearby though but pretty by the river
Day 2: Sunday 6th July 2014 - Germany
This is an interesting day, we leave the beautiful Mosel and head in the direction of the Black Forest, there is a 24 mile play on the autobahn for those that enjoy a quick blast before hitting the famous B500. then onto our overnight stop at Uhldingen-Muhlhofen “Lake Constance”.
Booking.com Link -
bit.ly
Hotel name: Bodensee-Hotel Kreuz
Address: Grasbeurer Str. 2, 88690, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen
Telephone:+49 (0)7556 928 890
Website:
Bodensee-Hotel Kreuz |
We’ve stayed here before, rooms are excellent, the showers could shift rust I reckon. Big off street parking. Good food and friendly staff, Free WiFi
Day 3: Monday 7th July 2014 - Austria
Now we head off to the beautiful and very scenic Tyrol & Vorarlberg, Austria. This route takes us through Hochtannberg pass, Fern pass and of course Gerlos pass.
Booking.com Link
http://bit.ly/1A6okSQ
Hotel Name: Landgasthof Hotel Wasserfall
Address: Familie Hollaus, Zeller Fusch 119, 5672 Fusch, Österreich, Fusch an der Glocknerstraße
Telephone: +43 (0)6546 249
Website:
http://www.gasthof-wasserfall.at
We had dinner at this place last year, food is good. We wanted to stay at the place we had last year but it was fully booked on this date. Rooms are good though and sets you up good for Grossglocknerstrasse in the morning.
It’s run by a crazy Dutch bloke who likes a laugh and push the most expensive dish on the menu.
Off road parking. Free internet via cable in the rooms or you can rent a Wireless point for €5
Day 4: Tuesday 8th July 2014 - Italy
The big one, yes we now have an exciting run over Grossglockner, this is a toll road costing around €25 so a nice dry day would be good. Then it’s Italy and the Dolomites as we head for our next pass, passo Giau, then passo Fedaia, passo Costalunga and passo Mendola before heading for our overnight stop at Via Per Marilleva.
Booking.com Link:
http://bit.ly/WDCvzp
Hotel Name: AFFITTACAMERE RESIDENCE LAGO ROTONDO
Address: Via Per Marilleva 900, 61, 38020 Mezzana -
Tel: 0463 757164
Website:
http://www.affittacamerelagorotondo.it
Bit of a odd one this as it’s a bit off the main road and my mates Satnav wanted to take us over a footbridge as the new road wasn’t listed, so we went over it lol
It’s a bit out of the way, but has underground parking if need be, but the owner allowed us to park right in front of the hotel.
Free WiFi, basic but decent rooms, again another places with a powerful shower.
Has a pizza restaurant next door with excellent well priced food.
Day 5: Wednesday 9th July 2014 - Switzerland
Now we start the day with passo Del Tonale before the heart stopping passo Di Gavia which sets us up nicely for Stelvio pass and it’s into Switzerland we go starting with Umbrail pass then Offen pass and Fluella pass before our overnight stop in Davos.
Booking.com Link
http://bit.ly/1jVvmEZ
Hotel Name: Chalet-Hotel Larix
Address: Obere Albertistrasse 10, 7270 Davos Platz
Telephone: +41 (0)81 413 11 88
Website:
http://www.hotel-larix.ch/
Expensive and small rooms but clean and comfortable, well it is Switzerland, so best to give up drinking booze while in this country. They allowed us to park in a secure underground carpark. Free WiFi
We eat in Davos town, personally I wasn’t impressed with the place. I’ve stayed in much better snow resorts. It’s a country you need a lot of money to enjoy.
Day 6: Thursday 10th July 2014 - Switzerland
Today we do the swiss biking ring which is Julier pass, Albula pass, Oberal pass, Furka pass “my favourite”, Grimsel pass and Susten pass before heading off to lake Lucerne for our well deserved overnight stop. – we had to go the more direct route on this day as the weather was ****e and was snowing… in July.. Shame as it says above the passes are brilliant, luckily I’ve done them before.
Booking.com Link:
http://bit.ly/1rBrFXN
Hotel Name: Hotel Rigi
Address: Seestrasse, CH-6354, Vitznau
Telephone: +41 (0) 41 399 85 85
Website:
http://www.
http://rigi-vitznau.ch
Again for a Swiss place it ain’t cheap but a nice hotel over looking the lake. Has bike parking around the rear. Food was good but expensive. Free WiFi
Day 7: Friday 11th July 2014 - Germany
Now we start making our way back home, we head out of Switzerland directly onto the B500 for a great progressive bike ride back into the Black Forest, Germany.
Booking.com Link:
http://bit.ly/1ufw5oY
Hotel Name: Cafe Rundblick
Address: Oberdorf Str. 37, 72270 Baiersbronn
Telephone: +49 74423587
Website:
http://www.cafe-rundblick.de/
Bit of a old hotel this one, but clean and friendly and has a bakery on the side with awesome cakes ☺
Parking off street and free WiFi.
We eat at another hotel which was ok, afterwards 3 of us went on exploring and found a great little bar and restaurant run by a couple of cute fräuleins –
http://www.restaurant-kritik.de/56565 - it also appeared to be ladies night and all I’ll say is we left late the next day
Day 8 Saturday 12th July 2014 - Germany
Hotel Tannenhof
Am Kurpark 2, 54595 Prüm
Booking.com link -
http://bit.ly/1pGn5CW
Another out of the way hotel, I’m sure my mate books these ones so we don’t have too much fun in the evening and can ride our bikes in the morning, though he says it’s cheaper to book ones not in town. Lol
Walked into Prum for dinner about 15mins, a few restaurant to choose from, all good by the looks of it. Bumped into another load of Brits on a biking holiday, it’s a good place to be based with access to many good roads.
Day 9 Sunday 13th July – home ☹
It’s now a dash back to Calais using motorways and home
Hope this helps someone
Not sure this is what the website intended, but a good link to some great roads can be found here -
http://www.dangerousroads.org/europe/switzerland.html
