I've had a difficult time booking the recommended hotels in Bacharach for a Saturday night in August. Everything is full due to the Rhine River Lights which is a fireworks display along the Rhine. I did go ahead and book Hotel Gelber Hof for 70 Euro thinking that I needed something. Is anyone familiar with this Hotel? It is close to Pension im Malerwinkel on Bluecherstrasse. Thanks for any information on this hotel or any advise on other places. Pension Letti said to check back in case there was a cancellation.
Posted by
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2779 posts
Have a look at this and zoom into the map. Find the street addresses of the other places you mentioned and compare the distance. Using maps.google.com you can even calculate distances between two addresses/places. http://www.hotel-gelber-hof.com/anreise.html
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19274 posts
I haven't been there, myself, but in the last eight years I have booked byself into almost 30 hotels in Germany, all found on the Internet. They have all been small family run places, no big chains or multistar places. I have never been disappointed in any of them. This is Germany, they have high standard, it's a cultural thing.
Posted by
Paradise
7068 posts
Agree with Lee that you can pretty much count on your accommodations being clean and pleasant in this part of Germany. Guidebook recommendations aren't crucial.
You can book in other nearby towns as well if Bacharach is indeed booked. The trains should allow you to get from town to town quite easily. If traveling by train, be sure to check the location before booking - "suburbs" are often indicated by the name of the Main town followed by the suburb name (Bacharach-Steeg, for example) and these suburbs are often tucked away up a nearby river valley, far from the town and the train station.
These towns from south to north might work as well (all have a train station):
Bingen
Trechtingshausen
Niederheimbach
Bacharach
Oberwesel
St. Goar
These two websites should help you find somewhere to stay:
www.bacharach.de/english/code/xtras/frameset.html
www.tal-der-loreley.de/index.en.php
I stayed at Irene Brager's nice B&B in Oberwesel a couple of years ago - cost should be around 25 Euros per person. The other Oberwesel pensions and B&B's listed on this page seem to have links to webpages:
www.oberwesel.de/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=18&Itemid=30