Included
Hire of 21 speed cycles and equipment. CATEGORY A: 7nights three/four star hotels

CATEGORY B: 7 nights in hotels/inns/ pensions 2/3 star. In twin/double rooms with shower/wc.

Luggage transport.
Tour information including maps and routes. Ship ride Passau to Kasten. 2 ferry rides on the Danube.

Exact location of the overnight stop may vary depending on accommodation availability. Emergency support.

Excluded
Lunches & Dinners.
Transfers Vienna/Scharding. Cycle Helmets.

Extras
Single rooms

Access(advice only, not included)
By air to Munich or Vienna airports
Train from Munich or Vienna to Passau
Free car parking available at Schärding.

Duration
7Nights/8 Days

Start
Any day, 10th April - 9th October
Minimum two persons

Level 1

Tour Code DCPC

Category A Price £510 per person
Sngl Suppl £120 Category B Price £450 per person

Single Suppl £100

Optional 6 evening dinners Category A £100. Category B £85 (not Vienna)

Child/3rd person reductions available please enquiry at office.

Category A: extra night - Scharding £53p.p. Vienna £60p.p. in a double room

Category B: extra night - Scharding £40p.p. Vienna £55p.p. in a double room

Day 1. SCHARDING Category A & B.
Individual arrival in Scharding, check in at your hotel and between 3-6pm come to our service centre where you will receive your cycles, travel documents and route briefing. If you arrive later than 6pm your cycles and travel documents will be waiting for you at your hotel. Take the opportunity for sightseeing in this town and visit its old town walls, gates and towers.

Day 2. Category A SCHARDING - ASCHACH/EFERDING 40ml(65km)+ 12ml(20km)by ship.

Category B SCHARDING - NIEDERRANNA/WESENUFER 19ml (30km)
Cycle tour along the river Inn to Passau and from there you take the boat to Kasten. Continue your trip to Engelhartszell with its beautiful abbey to the famous Schlogener Danube Loop which offers wonderful views of the surrounding countryside.

Day 3. Category A ASCHACH/EFERDING - LINZ 19ml(30km)

Category B NIEDERRANNA/WESENUFER - LINZ 39ml(62km)

You continue your trip through the fruitfu region 'Eferdinger Becken' to Ottensheim and Wilhering where you can visit the beautiful Rococo Church. Todays destination is Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. You have enough time for a stroll through this enchanting old town with its many interesting sights.

Day 4. Category A LINZ - GREIN 37ml(60km)

Category B LINZ - BAD KREUZEN 37ml(60km)
You leave Linz and cycling to Enns, the oldest town of Austria to Wallsee. Continuing via Ardagger you reach the beautiful old bargee town of Grein. This is the start of the Strudengau. You can visit the castle, the oldest municipal theatre still open and the maritime museum.

Day 5. Category A GREIN - WACHAU 39ml(63km)

Category B BAD KREUZEN - WACHAU 42ml(68km)
Today you will cycle through the high wooded and beautiful regions of Strudengau and Nibelungengau. On route high over the Danube stands the pilgrimage church of Maria Taferl. Perhaps stop and enjoy a break at the baroque monastery of Melk. Our destination today is the Wachau region, famous for it's wine growing. Why not taste some of the local wines at one of the local 'Heurigen'

Day 6.  Category A WACHAU - TRAISMAUER 25ml(40km)
Category B WACHAU - TULLN 40ml(65km)

You pass through some of the traditional small villages of the Wachau to reach the best known town of this area - Durnstein, where Richard the Lion Heart was once taken captive. Soon you will arrive in Krems, the end of the Wachau. There you cross the Danube and ride on to Traismauer or Tulln.

Day 7. Category A TRAISMAUR - VIENNA 40ml(65km)     

Category B TULLN - VIENNA 25ml(40km)
Today you ride the last part of this journey to Vienna, the capital of Austria. Before reaching Vienna you will see numerous garden and the well known Augustinian canon convent, Klosterneuburg. The bike-path ends only a few minutes away from the cathedral of St. Stephans, the landmark of Vienna.

Day 8. Depart VIENNA

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