Just got back from a one month trip to Europe which included this biking tour. I'm 68 and arthritic, but had no trouble biking 25 miles per day on average. It was a self directed tour which means they gave me the bike and map and traipsed my luggage from hotel to hotel. It would have probably been a great trip except that it rained 3 of the 6 days and I got sopping wet and didn't enjoy those parts of the trail. But, it is a wonderful trail - especially when it goes away from the river through farmlands and vineyards and is very well marked most of the way. I only had trouble once figuring out where the trail went. I did it by muself, but I met lots of others - when it wasn't raining. On rainy days, I seemed to be the only person on the trail. Has anyone else done this trail? I just did Passau to Krems. I booked through Bike Tours Direct in Chattanooga.
Janice
Posted by
Wynnewood, PA, USA
275 posts
Jan, about 3 years ago we rode along the Danube River portion of the EV6 bike trail from Melk to Krem (taking a ferry ride back to Melk). It was stunningly beautiful, and my all time favorite bike ride, ever. We're hardly, hard-core cyclist but often in better weather we ride local bike ways (usually rails to trails) one or two times a week. Our summer trips to Europe may or may not offer a day or two of biking (once along the Rhine, once in Northern Portugal) but nothing has compared to the pastoral beauty along the Danube. Did you stop and sample a bit of the local Schaps often sold from small "self-service" stands along the path and behind a farm house?
Wishing you many more wonderful trips ...
Posted by
Seattle, WA
359 posts
Sounds wonderful Jan!
Posted by
Nashville, TN, USA
3895 posts
I have not done this trail. But your trip report makes me want to!
"It was a self directed tour which means they gave me the bike and map and traipsed my luggage from hotel to hotel."
Please give us the names of the villages in which you stopped for the night, and the names of your hotels. Please comment on whether or not you liked the hotels or lodgings. Thanks! Sounds like great fun, minus the rain!
Posted by
OP
Cleveland, Oh
23 posts
I stayed in the hotels that Bike Tours Direct arranged - in Niederanna, Linz, Au, Ardagger, Melk, Krems. They were the 3rd tier down on their scale of hotels, but still a bit nicer than the other hotels I arranged on my own. All had attached bathrooms - I stay at a lot of hostels and hotels with shared baths normally - to save money. I liked that all their hotels had arranged places for bikes, all were close to the bike trail and not hard to find. The Linz hotel was a big fancy business hotel. I prefer the smaller places.
Jan