Bavarian Beer Trail Cycle

What's Included

• Accommodation
  7 nights in 3 star hotels

• 7 breakfasts. Breakfast generally buffet style with cereals, bread, cheese, meats, yoghurt, tea, coffee and juice, but will change from hotel to hotel

• 7 nights accommodation in 3 star hotels on a twin share basis with ensuite facilities

• 27 speed bike rental with pannier and handlebar bag (electric bikes available on request - supplement applies).

• Luggage Transfer, 1 piece maximum 20kg, supplement applies for excess

• Information pack including route notes and maps per room booked

• Entrance to Franconian open air museum Bad Windsheim (closed Mondays)

• 4 vouchers for 500ml of beer - per person (18yrs+, to be used in Bamberg)

• Guided tour Rothenburg with the night watchman

• Emergency hotline - 8am to 8pm, 7 days

• Travel to and from Nuremberg

• Meals not listed as included, drinks

• Travel insurance - mandatory

• Helmets, not available to rent or purchase

• E-bike, supplement applies

• Guide – this is a self guided cycling holiday

• A supplement will apply if you are travelling solo or book a single room

• Entrance fees not listed as included

• Transfers not listed as included

• Transfers by taxi or public transport if you need to skip a stage

• Excess Luggage

• Optional trains to shorten stage: Bamberg to Hirschaid (allow EUR12pp including bike) (prices subject to change)

• Hotel taxes if applicable – payable directly to the hotel

• Items of a personal nature

What's Not Included

• Lunches, dinners and beverages

• Items of a personal nature - eg. phone calls, laundry etc.

• Tour guide - this is a self guided trip

• Travel insurance - this is compulsory

• Entrance fees unless specifically advised as included

• Optional trains to shorten stages: Nuremberg to Forchheim (allow EUR15pp including bike) and Bamberg to Hirschaid (allow EUR10pp including bike) (prices subject to change)

• Transfers unless specifically advised as included

• City or visitors tax (where applicable)

• Helmet

What You Carry

During the cycle day you will carry your daily requirements in the pannier provided with the bike. This may include your lunch, wet weather gear, mobile phone and water. A small daypack which can be kept inside the pannier is useful for sightseeing.

Accommodation

7 nights in 3 star hotels
In southern Germany note that a twin room is not always associated with having two beds! Quite often a twin bed has one or two mattresses on the same bed frame but with two separate duvets. Sometimes there might be two beds positioned together, but they cannot be separated because of constraints of the room. Please accept our apologies for this, but having inspected many hotel rooms, there are not many twin rooms which have two separated beds, except in more modern or international style hotels.

Grading

During the 7 days of cycling a total of approximately 325km is covered with daily routes of between 30 and up to 65 kilometres, with options to take the train to shorten the trip. The route has hilly stretches with lots of small ascents, mostly along quiet rural roads, sometimes along forest and agricultural tracks. In order to prepare for this trip you will need to be comfortable cycling for extended periods, sometimes with traffic around you (sometimes unavoidable going in to and leaving towns).