Where - When - How Long - How Much ?

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Where

German, Austrian Alps

When

30th May 2013 to 5th June 2013

How Long

A week

How Much

€263 for Accommodation @ half board (bed, breakfast & evening meal).
Plus fuel required x Mileage (approx 1600 mile round trip) ~ Channel Crossing fare ~ sundry expenses (holiday/health insurance, beer chits etc. etc.)

Any interest ?

I intend to come along as well but will have to see how my work schedule is going to work out after the new year. Should be ok tho as long as I give them plenty notice.

Cool, that includes a bank holiday weekend here so I should definitely be able to pop round for a couple of days or three.

Only about 2 hours drive for me to Berchtesgaden so well pleased with the location

If you guys need any help or advise on travel or anything just let me know... Or if you want to stay longer / arrive earlier I can help you sort that out too

Oh and the Autozug question... I've never used it but I know quite a few people from Northern Germany regularly use them to go on holiday down south. Saves you a lot in fuel and tires and you get a good rest

Hi all together,
this is the place, where we want to stay. Intend to have the whole house for us, think that would be great
@ Terry - would be great if you would be so kind to translate all the informations, as I´m just little bit bussy. Thank you!!!

Hope you like it!

http://landhaus-wildschuetz.com

Ihr ganz spezielles Gruppenangebot:

Unser Haus verfügt über folgende Wohnungen & Zimmer und bietet Platz
für ca. 45 - 50 Personen:

6 x Doppelzimmer für 1 - 2 Personen
3 x Appartement für 2 Personen
4 x 2-Zimmer Ferienwohnung für 2 - 4 Personen (1 x Schlafzimmer +Schlafcouch)
4 x 3-Zimmer Ferienwohnung für 4 Personen ( 2 x Schlafzimmer)
1 x 4-Zimmer Ferienwohnung für 6 - 8 Personen (3 x Schlafzimmer)

Alle Wohnungen sind mit eigenem Bad mit Dusche / WC ausgestattet.

Pauschalpreis pro Person / Nacht 42,- € inkl. Halbpension (Frühstück und Abendessen)
zzgl. Kurtaxe pro Person / Nacht 1,70 €

Gerne können wir auch einmal einen Grillabend organisieren und diesen anstatt des Halbpensions-Abendessens machen. Das ist kein Problem.

Sie erhalten exklusiv bei uns als kostenlose Zusatzleistung die Königs Card mit über 200 attraktiven Leistungen, die Sie täglich kostenlos nutzen können. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auch unter www.koenigscard.com

I'll just do the translation since I'm here early anyway

Here the link to a map of where it is: Google Map

Website of the place

It's actually just across the border in Austria not that far from where we stayed in 2006.

Their house offers space for about 45-50 people in these rooms and/or apartments:

6x doubles for 1-2 people
3x apartments for 2 people
4x 2-bed flats for 2-4 people (1 bedroom + 1 sleeper sofa)
4x 3-bed flats for 4 people (2 bedrooms)
1x 4-bed flat for 6-8 people (3 bedrooms)

All flats, apartments and rooms are en-suite.

Price per person per night €42 (half board) + €1.70 per person per night visitor's tax.

Instead of an evening meal they can organise a BBQ for one evening if that's wanted.

And everyone gets the "Königs Card" which offers over 200 discounts and such. More information here: www.koenigscard.com

Sounds pretty good to me

Thanks Thomas for the translation

Saved me having to polish off my somewhat rusty German

Cheers
Tel

Hi there,
had just a look on http://www.dbautozug.de for prices from Düsseldorf to Innsbruck, but for the moment you can´t book for June. They´ll start the bookong-time on the 5th of November. For the moment the best price for a return-journey is round about 380,00 €/person+bike
All overnight-trips which makes it comfortable. But I think there will come some special offers. Problem is, that the trains are not running every day and so they don´t fit with our plans in the alps.
Think, most of the Germans try to fix the holidays for the time from 30.05. - 05.06.13 but some will perhaps visit us only for 2 or 3 days. I think we can manage this
Many of the germans will plan to take the bikes by trailer to safe tires and fuel!
Tours are planed on Friday and Saterday and Monday and Thusday. Sunday is planed as day off what for ever we like...
All that just for the moment as proposals are still welcome. Perhaps there are options to make part of the trip together with you.

Greetz Tom and Matzi

Right Chaps,
whats the plans as i'd need to start looking at booking time off for this soon..and we'd prob better look into booking the train as early as we can...i'm def up for the train to save tyres(ahem) , fuel etc...

Cannae book the train till 5th Nov. And special offers won't be available till next year I think, I'll forward the email on to you Dave.

cheer bud..do we have an official role call of who's up for this??

I'm not sure Dave (sorry I know that was helpful).

How long are folk planning on being away? Looks like a 2 weeker, had thought if I do go to come back via Switzerland / France.

Well I'm up for it.

The variables for me are.

1) Ferry timetable (preferably from Newcastle to Amsterdam as it is closer to me) or possibly from Hull to Amsterdam
2) Train timetable (Düsseldorf to Innsbruck)
3) Looking to tie in with our German friends for at least two nights and at least one possibly two rideouts. Should this include the day off (Sunday)?

I know that the Ferry costs are cheaper if we can book in groups of 4.
Bearing in mind that I would have 4 overnights on moving transport (ferry/train) I'm happy to make this at least a 10 day up to no more than 14 day trip.

Question is - do we wait on this special offer on the train or just 'bite the bullet' and book it??

Any of the 'locals' advise on the previous experience of these special offers?

If 3 other folks want to 'dive' in I'm happy to book the ferry / train with them once we agree a timetable.

Cheers
Rosco

Unfortunately money to tight to mention at the moment . . . never mind health issues

I'd really really love to go . . . but it's unlikely unless

Sorry to hear that Tel.

Right, just checked out dates & times.

Cheapest option so far;

Newcastle to Amsterdam Sat 25th Rtn Tues 4th - £150 each (4 sharing)
Dusseldorf to Munich Sun 26th Rtn (Special Offer) Mon 3rd - €250/£210 each (4 sharing)

I'm still bikeless until March-ish when house moves are complete but I'm determined to make this trip.

Provisionally in.

Good point of these dates is they incorporate a bank holiday.

Bad point is it's half term, might be difficult to get past 'er indoors for some.

As previously stated I'm in whatever, but as a pensioner, the cheaper the better, please, (pretty please)

Too tight money-wise to be a definite for this but it might make a nice birthday present for myself! Will keep an eye on the thread as decisions are made and let you know

Happy New Year

Just thought I'd revive this thread again and see if people are still planning on doing this trip?

I'd need to know relatively soon as I'll have to book some time off...

Hope a few of you can make it.

Hi Thomas & A Happy New Year to you, Hillary and the children as well.

I'm affraid it looks very doubtful that I'll be able to make this (health reasons).
I believe Ross, DBD and Chris have some fairly strong plans to go. They're still hammering out methods of getting to the alps (ie. cartrain, ferry routes etc.)
Not sure if John will be going or if he's aware of the trip.

Cheers
Tel

Yep - been thinking about getting organised for this one.

Happy New Year to you too Thomas.

Need to get plans sorted and holidays organised very soon and work out the best timings of ferries, trains and accommodation for this.

I'll PM the numpty point collectors to see what their plans are.

Cheers
Rosco

Just to bump this post......so far we have 5 uk trippers for this, we are going to book ferries etc very shortly so if anyone else fancies it speak now or forever hold your peace...
Our plan is to meet up with our German counterparts for at least one of their ride outs, spend some socialising time with them then do our "bucket list" of alpine roads. We are planning a 10 day trip.

Woo Hoo

I'm still very much a serious doubtful for this I'll make my own chunnel/travel arrangements if I do make it.

Might go over with espaceman in his spacemobile and trailer the bikes. He is due to have a hip replacement end of March though, so will have to see if he's up to it.

If you like mountain roads, go carts and beers then ya better sign on the dotted line
..............................................................................

Bump,

If you are registered on the German Thundercat site, you might wish to just drop them a line (in english will do ~ they'll understand it) , at this direct and let them know how many are going to be there, and names.

They obviously need this info for rooms. Or have you been in contact with them already and they just haven't mentioned it in there Tref (meeting) thread ?

i.e. They have listed their names and how many, but there is no sign even of numbers intending to attend from UK, . . . . just rumours that MAYBE up to 5 might be coming.

Cheers & regards
Tel

PS : this is their latest list I can find . . .

Posted: Tue 09 Apr, 2013 19:40 Post subject: unverbindliche Teilnehmer Treffen 2013

Mario
Molchgrotte (2+1)
Tom + Matzi (2)
deggl
sascha
STI
Uwe ganz bestimmt,bestimmtauch stefan ,olli
Dachsi
Schweinebacke
Catwoman
ephor
thunderrider
Tschnitzel + Björn
Ralph (Eisenhaufen)
Bigfoot (evtl. +1)
Hotwheel
Rolf (mastacleana)

23 (evtl+1)

Accommodation: Home Page

Thanks Tel. Uli was going to get hold of me once he had confirmation from the hotel's owners - last I heard they were still on holiday.
I had mentioned there were 6 of us and the dates we would be there, independently John (espaceman) has made arrangements with Uli.
He's (John) made a remarkable recovery from his hip replacement. Two weeks after the op he felt well enough to tackle the trip again.

I tried logging onto the site yesterday but seems I have locked myself out or something worse.. easily done I guess seeing I can't understand 90+% of the messages ...

Okay,

As long as someone has their finger on the pulse . . . would hate to see it go petetong at this late stage.

BTW, I only noticed last night that the banner (the scrolling one), that I added to the forum, had the wrong dates on it and no one told me !
Or did you all have date blindness like me and mix april/may up with may/june too
I have corrected it since