Danube Enjoy and Relax

DANUBE ENJOY & RELAX

Included
Hire of 21 speed cycles and equipment.
B&B accommodation in very good hotels mostly with spa area. In twin/double rooms with shower/wc.
Luggage transport, 1 suitcase per person.

Tour information including map and route

2 ferry tickets on the Danube. Train ticket Tulln to Vienna.

Emergency support.

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

Extras
Single rooms

Access(advice only, not included)
By air to Munich or Vienna airports
Train from Munich or Vienna to Passau

Duration
7 Nights/8 Days

Start Any day, 10th April - 9th October

Level 1

Tour Code DBR

Price £595 per person
Single Suppl £150

Tour reduction of £45p.p. for bookings from 10th April to 7th May & 25th Sept to 9th Oct.

Optional 7 x 4 course evening dinners £165

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

Extra night Vienna £60p.p. in a double room £85 single room.

Extra night. Passau £57p.p. in a double room £73 single room.

Day 1. Arrive PASSAU.
Individual arrival in Passau, your 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.

Schlogener Loop
Day 2. PASSAU - SCHLOGEN/St. AGATHA 25ml(40km)
Collect cycles in the morning and start cycling through the Upper Danube Valley, passing Obernzell and the beautiful Trappist monastery at Engelhartszellat. Continue your trip to the famous Schlogener Danube Loop which offers wonderful views of the surrounding countryside.

Day 3. SCHLOGEN/St. AGATHA - LINZ 33ml(54km)

Today you cycle through the villages of Aschach, Wilhering and Ottensheim to 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. LINZ - PERG/SURROUNDINGS 22ml(35km) You leave Linz and continue your tour to Enns, the oldest city of Austria and further on to Mitterkirchen where you can visit an open air museum. Here you take the turning to Perg.

Day 5. PERG/SURROUNDINGS - EMMERSDORF 47ml(75km)
Back on the Danube cycle path you pass Grein, the small romantic town with its baroque city theatre. Continue by bike and perhaps detour to visit the old Roman town of Ybbs. You reach Marbach by riding through the Nibelungengau and after Marbach the pilgrimage centre of Maria Taferl greets you from the hills above. A short distance now to your overnight stop at Emmersdorf

Day 6. EMMERSDORF - KREMS 25ml(40km)
Today you cycle one of the most popular parts of theDanube, the Wachau - well known for its choice wines. 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. Perhaps visit one of the many wine taverns 'Heuriger' and taste the local specialities.

Day 7. KREMS - TULLN - VIENNA 28ml(45km)

You cycle along the southern bank of the Danube to the former Roman town Tulln where you leave the hired cycles. From here you take the train to Vienna and take time to enjoy the magic of this lively city with its beautiful buildings and picturesque riverside settings. perhaps visit Schonbrunn Palace and Gardens, one of the most important cultural monuments in Austria.

Day 8. Depart VIENNA