I have booked all my hotels for my mid-May German vacation, but one. It seems that on May 14-16th all the hotels I check in the Rhine Valley are already booked. Is there something going on during that time? Mostly I have looked around the Boppard and St. Goar areas.
Posted by
Vernon, Canada
32353 posts
Robert, Have you checked lodgings in Bacharach? It's also a very convenient location for touring that area.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19274 posts
The St. Goar website shows, under events, 15.05.2011 Guided Hiking, Auf alpinen Wegen zur Burg (On alpine paths to the castle), but I don't know if that is enough to fill the hotels. Have you tried the hotels, pensionen, etc under Übernachten on www.st-goar.de. Boppard is having a public city tour on May 14. The list of accommodations for Boppard is under "Gastgeberverzeichnis" on www.boppard.de.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19274 posts
As long as we are discussing alternate destinations, I would agree with Bacharch, particularly Im Malerwinkel. There is also St. Goarshausen, across the river from St. Goar, and Braubach, below the Marksburg castle. I had lunch at Weinhaus Weighardt and thought it was nice enough to come back for a stay, sometime. There is also Oberwesel, although I would not recommend it as most places there look overpriced to me.
Posted by
Paradise
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I just checked www.hotelscombined.com and found 15 hotels in Boppard available from 5/14-5/16, 12 of them $100 or less, only 7 sold out. I suspect that the Bundesgartenschau (national gardens exhibition) in nearby Koblenz may be the reason that anything is sold out.