Hi,
I've been working on a France itinerary for April 14-30 for a while now and gotten a lot of help:) Thanks!
We'll have a car rental for the whole trip.
This will be the final general itinerary:
4 nights Loire
4 nights Burgundy
4 nights Alsace (return car rental and take train from Strasbourg to Paris at the end)
3 nights Paris
I'm working on the Alsace lodging part now and trying to decide on a base for the 4 nights in Alsace. We'd like to taste various types of wines, eat a variety of foods, visit the different little villages/towns, and maybe visit the car museum in Mulhouse among other things possibly. We're also on a pretty tight budget.
We thought about Ribeauville because it has the wine co-op and we could just walk to it for wine tasting, but wonder if it's too small for restaurant variety?
Thought about Colmar as it's bigger and might have more variety, but maybe traffic going into/out of it might be a headache? We'll have a car rental.
Strasbourg will be too far north as a base and I saw it mentioned that if we stayed in Strasbourg, we'd need a Crit'Air sticker on the car. We don't want to fool with that if it doesn't already come on the rental--plus the traffic.
We're looking at staying in self catering places or maybe a Chambre d'hote with access to a refrigerator. Our nightly budget is around 65-110 Euros. I've found quite a few places in different towns that would meet that requirement.
Where do you think our best Alsace base might be?