Can anyone recommend a company for a bike tour on the Romanticsche Strasse in June next year.
Due to age and general decreptitude we will need our luggage transported, and a reasonably comfy bed (eg small hotel or guesthouse) at night. We will also need to hire bikes.
So far have found several possibilities - Velociped, Touring Tours and Travel, Bike Tours Direct and German Holidays, has anyone out there used any of them or do you know of others??
burramys
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regards
Wherever you rent your bike I would not use the romantic road as it is a 'National' road and more a free way with heavy traffic under the week.
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riesling
Regards, there's a cycle route D9, part of Germany's long-distance cycling network, which uses "quiet roads, dedicated cycle trails and rarely used byways, away from the traffic hubbub of the modern era", according to the official Romantic Road website.
Unfortunately, I don't have any personal recommendations for the OP. Two companies organising hotel reservations and luggage transport I found googling are Eurobike Radtouren in cooperation with Alpenlandtouristik and Velotours Touristik.
I also found a courier service for luggage called Radl Post where you would need to book your own accomodation.
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surfnturf
Just one remark:
"Die Romantische Strasse" itself is not so romantic.
I went by car on this road many years ago and found that the road itself was not so nice, however there are many romantic towns along the road. So the pleasure is to visit the towns not to travel along the road.
Sorry to make you disappointed but maybe a cycle tour won't be so enjoyable.
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waterhazardjack
"Die Romantische Strasse" itself is not so romantic...I went by car on this road many years ago and found that the road itself was not so nice, however there are many romantic towns along the road. So the pleasure is to visit the towns not to travel along the road. Sorry to make you disappointed but maybe a cycle tour won't be so enjoyable.
The beginning and end of the route may be the best and most suitable for cyclists...
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anhalter1960
agree with #5. It is romantic places along a standard route through standard landscape, some exeptions are along the Main and approaching the Alps.
If you want to combine nice landscape with lovely places, consider cycling the "Main-Radweg", for example from Bamberg to Würzburg or, even better, to Aschaffenburg. A tour operator, I can recommend, is Flusskultur Radreisen (look here http://flusskultur-radreisen.de/ ... the website is in German, but they speak english).
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