I have one night and the following day to spend in the Rhine (from St. Goar to Bingen).
What town should I stay the night in?
How should I spend the following day? (I need to head south at the end of the day, and I would rather not back-track)
Thanks for the help.
I would stay in either St. Goar or Bacharach.
If Bacharach, see Bacharach, take the boat to St. Goar, see Rheinfels, go back to Bacharach by train (about 10 min, every hour).
If St. Goar, see Rheinfels, take the boat to Bacharach, see Bacharach, come back on the train.
If you total want to avoid backtracking, stay in St. Goar, take you luggage with you on the boat to Bacharach, go from there.
Hi Lee,
I am also trying to work out some Rhine visit details that are similar to Drew's and it sounds like you've been there, done that. I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping you might be able to offer some good advice on.
I'm tentatively planning 2 nights at Koblenz (arrived by train via Frankfurt) with a round-trip rail visit to Moselkern (Burg Eltz) on one day and also a train trip to either Rudesheim or Bingen with the return on one of the river cruises on the next day. On the Rhine, we would like to be able to tour both Marksburg and Rheinfels castles.
Question 1: Is there enough time in a day to actually tour both castles on the train trip down to Rudesheim/Bingen and still be able to catch a river cruise back to Koblenz that doesn't run so late that we miss some of the scenery due to loss of daylight?
Question 2: We would probably be arriving via Frankfurt and could potentially take an early morning river cruise from Rudesheim/Bingen (instead of going to Koblenz first) and there would be time to get off and tour one (I assume only time for one) of the castles on the way to Koblenz. At most, we would then only need to take a train back down to tour the other castle the next morning. If we wanted to do this, do you know of any place we could stow our luggage for a castle visit as a stopover on the river cruise to Koblenz?
Sorry for such a long message and I know I'm asking for relatively specific info, can't hurt to ask. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
Randy
Randy, I think I will answer this offline.
I don't know if this makes any difference to you or not but we just came from Koblenz and they have lots of construction going on. They are getting ready for a huge flower show next year and are working on some of the streets and buildings.
