Question
4: Would like to
take a boat ride from Köln / Koln / Cologne to Bingen. How long does that take? Is there
a morning trip?
 Answer 4: Please read what is written
about a cruise
from Köln / Koln / Cologne to the central Rhine.
The average cruise boat travels upstream (Cologne / Koln / Köln – Bingen) at about
13 to 15 kmph. The upstream journey can therefore take between 10 and 11,5 hours.
Therefore you have lost a whole day without sighting one castle up close.
From Köln / Koln / Cologne to Koblenz / Coblence = 90 km = between 6 and 7 hours.
From Koblenz / Coblence to Bingen / Rüdesheim / Rudesheim = 60 km = between 4 and 5
hours.
Schedule
and cruise ticket prices from Boppard to St. Goar with castle Rheinfels or back.
Schedule and
cruise ticket prices from Bingen / Rudesheim to St. Goar with Castle Rheinfels or
back.
From Bingen / Rüdesheim / Rudesheim to Mainz = 20 km = about 1,5 hours.
Cologne / Koln / Köln and Bingen on
Rhine River are about 150 km apart = between 11,5 and 13 hours.
Question 5: My wife and i would
like to have a cruise on the Rhine. We want to spent one week. Have you got any plane
to propose? Note that we are just married and the city of our arriving will be Frankfurt airport or
Amsterdam airport. Thank you very much, Nikolas Xynos
Answer 5:
If you arrive in Amsterdam airport or
Dusseldorf airport please look at www.dusseldorf.germany-travel.net
. If you arrive in Frankfurt
airport please look at
www.online-reservations.de
and www.vacation-package.net
Question 6: We would like to catch a boat
at Bacharach and cruise as far as St. Goar. We would then like to rent bicycles and cycle
back to our car in Bacharach. Can you tell me what times we could catch a boat in
Bacharach, how long the journey is to St. Goar, and whether there are bicycle shops in St.
Goar that will rent bikes to us for one-way travel.
Answer 6:
For a boat from
Bacharach to St. Goar and how long the journey
is, please look at the day cruise line
Bingen-Rudesheimer.
There are no
bicycle shops in Bacharach and none in St. Goar. There is only a bicycle shop in Oberwesel between Bacharach and St.
Goar and another one in Boppard. Please use the train every hour from St. Goar to
Bacharach.
Question 7: We are using a German Rail
Pass and wondered if it covers any of the price of the l/2 day trips from St. Goar or
Boppard? Our trip is March 22. Thank you. Sharron.
Answer 7: The prices are really cheap.You must pay so much
like some cigarette packets.
Schedule
and cruise ticket prices from Boppard to St. Goar. Please look for the winter schedule on top of this page at
Question and Answer no 1. But both companies from Question and Answer no 1
on the top of this page don't accept any Rail Passes.
Only one other boat company on the Rhine River accepts Rail Passes. This company,
which accepts Rail Passes, has no cruises in the winter from November 1, to March 31.
Question 8: What boats leave
Koblenz to Rudesheim? I need time leaving and arrival and price. Thank you, Virginia
Griggs
Answer 8: Drive
from Koblenz to
Boppard with the train.
And then from
Boppard to St. Goar with the boat.
Drive in
St. Goar with a miniature railway to the Rhine River hills
to visit
Rheinfels castle, the biggest castle ruin in west Germany, and back downhills to St.
Goar.
Then drive from St. Goar to
Rudesheim (or better Bacharach and the next day to Rudesheim) with the boat.
Question 9: What is the price USD of
12.00 EUR? Darlene Lafalce
Answer 9: 1.00 USD is about 1.00 EUR.
But this is not right. The exchange course differs daily. Best way, you ask the
exchange-office of your bank in your town.
Question 10: Arriving in
Cologne apx. June and travelling to Munich. We wanted to take time to
see a few castles and take a trip by boat trip on the Rhine River. What castles are open
for viewing and what castles can be seen by boat? Is there any web sites that will show me
all the castles and landing sites along the Rhine River? Thank you, Cathie
Answer 10:
Rhine River map with 30 Rhine castles.
Rhine
map and Boat landing stations between St. Goar and Rudesheim.
Part 1: Half day Rhine River
cruise from Boppard along the enemy brothers castles Sterrenberg and Liebenstein also
castles Maus (mouse) and Katz (cat) to St. Goar and Fortress Rheinfels.
From Boat
landing stages in St. Goar every 15 minutes with a miniature street railway to Castle
Rheinfels on Rhine hills and back down the hill to St. Goar.
Part 2: Half day Rhine River cruise from St. Goar along Lorelei cliff, Oberwesel, castle Schonburg, Kaub,
castle Gutenfels, water castle Pfalz (Palatinate) to
Bacharach and
Castle Stahleck.
Question 11:
I am very interested in taking a cruise along the Rhine, but all of the information
I have gathered is very confusing. We will
departing
from Munich on May 23. We need to arrive in
Amsterdam on May 25 or 26. We would like to travel along the Rhine to our destination. Is
there any way to do this? Thank you for your time. Jenny Couch
Answer 11:
Drive from Munich with the train to Rudesheim on the
right Rhine side or to Bingen on the left Rhine side. Please look at
www.online-reservations.de and at this Rhine River map:
www.vacation-package.net . And then read all
parts from north to south from part 1 (Boppard) to 16 (Rudesheim). But make your cruise
from south to north from part 16 (Rudesheim) to 1 (Boppard).
From Boppard railway station you can take a train every hour to Amsterdam via
Koblenz, Coblence and Koln, Cologne.
If you are coming from the southeast – Frankfurt airport,
Stuttgart airport, Munich airport:
start your River cruise in Rudesheim on the Rhine
River ...
Question 12: I have
clients arriving in Frankfurt. They are
interested in a one day rhine river cruise. Can they get one from Frankfurt, and do you
know the aprox length and itn. Thank you. Jack Cunningham
Answer 12:
Frankfurt city
is a noisy, big town like every big town in the world. There are no day boat trips to Mainz, Rudesheim,
Bingen, Koblenz (Coblence) or another town on the the Rhine River valley.
From Frankfurt
city are no boat
trips for only one night to the Rhine River. Cruise boats on Rhine River with over
night stay are only possible for more than 4 nights.
Near Frankfurt
airport are no boat landing stages. Frankfurt airport
is 20 km more west than Frankfurt
city and nearer to the Rhine River than Frankfurt city.
Frankfurt airport
is very far away from each town and from the Main river.
From Frankfurt airport
you can't take a cruise to anywhere.
From Frankfurt airport
take a train every hour to the Rhine River valley. It's much cheaper than to rent a car.
In Germany the railway from Frankfurt airport
is very good. It is not usual to take a bus from Frankfurt airport.
If you are coming from the
southeast – Frankfurt airport,
Stuttgart airport, Munich airport:
start your
River cruise in Rudesheim on the Rhine ...
Question 13: We
would like to take leave our car in Frankfurt and take a
Rhine River cruise to Amsterdam. However, we are interested in doing so quickly - finding a boat
line that will travel through the night and get us to Amsterdam within perhaps 1 1/2 days?
Is there such a cruise available? Thank you. Matthew O'Brien
Answer 13:
This is not possible in only one and a half
days from Frankfurt
to Amsterdam. There are no Rhine River cruises with
1 1/2 days and 2 days, 3 days
available.
Available are only 1/2 day or 1 day or 4 days or 5 days or 6 or 8 days. But not from Frankfurt.
Long route Rhine River cruises from Swiss through Germany to Netherlands:
Question 14: I
would like to take a roundtrip boat cruise from Rudesheim to St. Goar with some time to
visit the fortress Rheinfels and spend some time in St. Goar. How long does just the
roundtrip boat take from Rudesheim to St. Goar and back. Can I take time between the
return to spend time in St. Goar? Thank you, John Cox
Answer 14: Please look at the
schedule and
cruise ticket prices from Bingen / Rudesheim to St. Goar with Castle Rheinfels or
back. And then look there: a trip with the
miniature
railway to castle fortress
Rheinfels.
Question 15:
We will come from Frankfurt to Mainz to
take the Rhine River tour. Do we take the boat from Rudesheim or from Bingen? We would like to
stay at the Schonburg castle near Oberwesel and Lorelei
Rock overnight and then get back
on the Rhine River tour to go North to Boppard. From Boppard we take a train to Amsterdam. Thank
you for helping me. Diane Sykes
Answer 15: If you arriving earlier in the
morning drive from Frankfurt
airport to Wiesbaden and from Wiesbaden to Rudesheim. Deposit your
luggage in the train station in Rudesheim and stay a short time in the city of Rudesheim
and see the famous road "Drosselgasse" and if you have time one of the museums.
Then take the boat from Rudesheim to Oberwesel (along
Bacharach).
Please look at the schedule and
cruise ticket prices from Rudesheim to Oberwesel . Look also
part 2 and
part 3 .
If you are arriving later in the morning drive from Frankfurt to Mainz and
from Mainz to Bingen. In Bingen city is not much interesting to see (there is castle Klopp
but it is to far away for only a few hours and not much to see). Then take the boat from
Bingen to Oberwesel (along Bacharach). Please look at the
schedule and
cruise ticket prices from Bingen to Oberwesel . Look also
part 2 and
part 3 .
Stay overnight in Schonburg
castle
But DON'T drive from Oberwesel with the boat to Boppard the next morning. Better you take
early in the morning a taxi from Schonburg castle for about 7 or 8 kms north to St. Goar
along the Lorelei rock (about 10 EUR). In St. Goar
deposit your
luggage in the tourist office in St. Goar and drive every 15 minutes with a miniature
street railway to Castle Fortress
Rheinfels on Rhine River hills and back down the hill to St. Goar.
Then make a half
day Rhine River cruise from St. Goar along castles Maus (mouse) and Katz (cat) and the
enemy brothers castles Sterrenberg and Liebenstein to Boppard.
Stay overnight in Boppard on the Rhine.
Schedule
and cruise ticket prices from St. Goar to Boppard
From Boppard take the train to Amsterdam via Koblenz / Coblence and Koln /
Cologne:
www.rhine.vacation-package.net/start-in-boppard.html
www.rhine.vacation-package.net/cologne-to-boppard.html
Question 16: My wife and I are planning a vacation trip to Germany in September
for approx. four weeks. Our final destination is Aalen in Wuerttemberg. We would like to
land in Dusseldorf or Koln and from there on take an upstream Rhine cruise, perhaps to
Basel. What can you offer us: please include prices for lodging? Thank you in advance for
your effort. Gideon B. Fredrich.
Answer 16:
Have you read all web sites from www.vacation-package.net ? Did you want to make
a more-day-cruise without seeing any Rhine castles up close? Then look at question and
answer 13 on this page.
Or did you want make different Rhine River cruises and see some castles up close?
Then look at this web site: Rhine River cruise
from Dusseldorf, Koln, Cologne to Koblenz, Coblence or Boppard
For a half day Rhine River
cruise from Boppard along 6 castles please look at these web pages:
part 3 + 5 |
part 7 + 9 + 11 |
part 13 |
part
15
Please look also at this
interactive road map from
south Germany with individual round castle tour
Question 17: We are planning to drive down from Cologne and start our Rhine
River tour in Koblenz. We would like to stay over one night in castle hotel Liebenstein
near Kamp-Bornhofen and the Lorelei Rock. Could you give us more information on how long
the cruise would take to get to the castle? Can we catch the boat back to Koblenz to get
our car? What do you think would be the best way of doing it? Thanks. Julie Adam
Answer 17:
Don't drive to Koblenz with the car. I don't
think you will find a free parking space over night. Drive to castle fortress Rheinfels on
the Rhine hills above St. Goar. There is a big parking place directly near the castle.
Please read
this web site to visit castle Rheinfels.
Then drive with your car downhills to St. Goar. Free parking spaces are on the north and
on the south end of St. Goar near the Rhine River shore. If you come downhills to St. Goar
drive about 100 m after the big free hanging cuckoo clock on the highway B 9 left and
after about 100 m right. There is a big free parking place.
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Then walk along the Rhine River promenade about 250 m to the Boat landing stages from the
shipping company Loreley-Linie Weinand.
Schedule
and cruise ticket prices from St. Goar to Kamp-Bornhofen. In Kamp-Bornhofen walk about
5 min to Hotel Deutsches Haus. From there the owner from castle Liebenstein make the
transfer to castle hotel Liebenstein.
Next
morning transfer back to Kamp-Bornhofen. From there with Loreley-Linie Weinand back to St.
Goar. Visit there the pedestrian zone and the shop with the biggest free hanging cuckoo
clock of the world. Then walk about 200 m back to your car.
Question 18:
I am looking for information about the Bingen to Rudesheim car
ferry. I shall be travelling with a trailer caravan, and would like to know the frequency
of the ferry service and the costs, please. Alasdair Walker.
Answer 18:
There is only a
schedule written in
german in the internet available. Please don't ask me for the translation.
Question 19:
We would like to take a Rhine
River cruise, leaving from Boppard, staying
overnight in Boppard, continuing on to Rudesheim, eventually connecting to Frankfurt. The dates we
have in mind are leaving Boppard Sept. 6 and arriving Frankfurt Sept. 9. Can
you arrange such a trip, what accommodations would you recommend in Boppard, what would be
the costs, and the train schedules? Thank you for your cooperation. Jack H. Westbrook
Answer 19:
For staying overnight in Boppard please look
on on the Boppard page and if you
want see the room rates and request different hotels in Boppard with only one online form,
please use www.loreleyvalley.com/central-rhine-hotel-info
or www.bed-and-breakfast-inns.net
and mark there different hotels along the Rhine River between Boppard and Rudesheim. With
this form you can arrange your trip easy for yourself.
Boat schedules and boat rates are here:
Schedule
and cruise ticket prices from Boppard to St. Goar with castle Rheinfels.
Drive in
St. Goar with a miniature railway to the Rhine hills
to visit
Rheinfels castle, the biggest castle ruin in west Germany, and back downhills to St.
Goar.
Schedule and
cruise ticket prices from St. Goar to Rudesheim.
The train schedule and train rates are here:
www.vacation-package.net/airport/frankfurt.html
Question 20:
My wife I along with my two teen age daughters are planning a
military hop from the USA to Germany in August. Are there military rates? What would be
the best arrangment for a two day trip? Michael Chon
Answer 20:
The shipping company
Loreley-Linie Weinand has no special military rates. They have group dicounts for more
then 15 people.
Please ask for militaray rates the shipping company
Bingen Rudesheimer
directly.
Please look for a two day trip at question 13 and answer 13. Please make two one day Rhine River trips and please read all web sites at www.vacation-package.net
.
Question 21:
I am looking for information on a l day cruise on the Rhine
River in mid-August. There would be 4 of us and we would be arriving by train in Boppard or Bingen
from Cologne, Koln. Please advise about how to book a cruise. Thank you. Joan Bair
Answer 21:
Please look at both these web sites:
schedule
and cruise ticket prices from Boppard to St. Goar with castle Rheinfels and
schedule and
cruise ticket prices from Rudesheim to St. Goar and please use there the forms.
Question 22: We are trying to plan a short trip to the Rhine River valley ...
namely in St. Goar and Bacharach. We'd like to visit the Rheinfels Castle ... do a tour
... Our date is the easter weekend. Will that pose a problem? Will the castle be open for
tours on that weekend? Will shops and restaurants be open? Thank you for your help and
time. Sincerely, Shelley Edelmann
Answer 22: This weekend is the first high season weekend on the
Rhine River of the year. Castle Rheinfels, all restaurants and all souvenir shops and gift and crafts stores in Bacharach and
St. Goar are open on the easter
weekend.
Question 23: We want to spend 1 night in Boppard and spend 1 day cruising on the
Rhine while visiting castle Rheinfels above St. Goar. My question is, what do we do with
our luggage? Is there a place on the boat to safely store luggage?
We want to spend the night in Bacharach and go to Rothenburg o. d. Tauber. By
train, how long does it take to go from Bacharach to Rothenburg o. d. Tauber? We want to
spend the night in a castle hotel in
middle Franconia near Rothenburg o.d.Tauber. Thank you. Rini
Bartlett.
 Answer 23: In St. Goar you must change the boats. Take one boat
from Boppard to St. Goar. Please read there,
what you can do
with the luggage in St. Goar. Take another boat from St. Goar to
Bacharach.
From Bacharach to Rothenburg o.d.Tauber by car:
From Bacharach take first 20 km the highway
B 9 to Bingen and then 16 km the freeway A 60 in direction Mainz, then 7 km the freeway A
643 in direction Wiesbaden, then 12 km the freeway A 66 in direction freeway intersection
Wiesbadener Kreuz. Then take 146 km the freeway A3 in direction Wurzburg till
freeway intersection Biebelsried. Then take 51 km the freeway A7 till freeway exit
Rothenburg o.d.Tauber. From the freeway exit it is about 3 km to
Rotenburg o.d. Tauber. Together about 258 km and you drive about 180 min. mostly on
freeways. A
map from south
Germany and from castle 915-colm Mid Franconia near Rothenburg o.d.Tauber.
From Bacharach to Rothenburg o.d.Tauber by train: You need about 270 min. The ticket is about
??* per person in second class
without BahnCard. (*Status: March 2000).
Please look for a castle round cruise through south Germany at www.online-reservations.de
Question 24: We would like 2 different day cruises on the Rhine River between
Boppard, St. Goar, Oberwesel, Bacharach, Assmannshausen and Rudesheim. Do you have any
particular itineraries to see castles and wineries? Thanks for your help! Dora
Harris
Answer 24: Please look for day cruises and castles at www.vacation-package.net and read all web
pages.
For wineries request more information from Central Rhine Hotel Info via one single form www.loreleyvalley.com/central-rhine-hotel-info
and please mark there on the bottom above the address the white box "wine
tasting".
Oberwesel has an old tradition in wine-making, wine-tasting
is also available to single travellers, many wine cellars can be viewed and there are
guided tours to the various surrounding vineyards.
Some wineries with own wine grape growing, wine tasting and wine tavern on the Rhine River
are also on www.bed-and-breakfast-inns.net
.
Question 25: We want to make a stop to visit Rheinfels castle on the Rhine River
on our way from Heidelberg up north to Dusseldorf. Do you have a map that would show
the best route to follow from Heidelberg to the Rheinfels castle?
Answer 25:
Question 26: We will be driving a van. Where do we leave our car to take the miniature
railway to the Rheinfels castle? Is there sufficient parking? How much does it cost for
the railway and also for the entrance to the castle. Can we eat at the castle restaurant?
Thanks, Beth Heckel
Answer 26:
For parking place near the Rheinfels castle and the
miniature railway please read answer 17. I think the railway cost about ?? per person,
but I'm not sure. I think the entrance on castle Rheinfels is for adults about
?? and
for children about ??, but I'm not sure either.
Please read this page for the
restaurant
on Rheinfels castle
Question 27: We will be traveling by
minivan from the Wuppertal area and are booked at the castle
hotel Schonburg. We would
like to fit in a short Rhine River cruise during this time but must be able to park our vehicle
somewhere and then return to that spot. What would be the best way to do this? Thank you.
Sincerely, Ann Seals
Answer 27: Drive with your car to the river bank in Oberwesel.
There is a big parking place near the boat landing stages from
Bingen
Rudesheimer
Make a cruise with their boat along the Lorelei Rock
to St. Goar to visit Fortress
Rheinfels. After the visit, cruise with the boat back to Oberwesel or if you are too late,
take the train every hour to Oberwesel. From Oberwesel train station to the parking place
near Bingen
Rudesheimer
it's about a 500 m walk.
Question 28: We are considering staying
in the Rhine River valley for approximately 4 days. We have found one hotel that offers a
4 day/3 night vacation package which includes two river tours. Are there any other such
offers at other hotels or castles? Thank you. Kathy Garry
Answer 28:
Different 2 day, 3 day, 4 day, 6 day, 8 day
vacation packages in different hotels with different one day Rhine River cruises
Question 29:
We
will rent a car and drive to Bingen where we will stay overnight. We would like to take a
Rhine River cruise from Bingen to Koblenz / Coblence where we will boarding a train for
Paris. Most of the schedules which I have looked seem to stop at Boppard or St. Goar. Do
you have a recommendation? Larry Black
Answer 29:
Take from Boppard or St. Goar every hour a train to
Coblence / Koblenz. In Boppard and in St. Goar are the train stations near the
boat
landing stages. In Coblence / Koblenz the train station is far away from the boat
landing stage.
Question 30: I
would like to take a Rhine River trip from St. Goar to Mainz. Would this be possible?
Thank you. Dave Allens
Answer 30:
Please look for a cruise from St. Goar to
Bingen at the schedule
and cruise ticket prices from St. Goar to Bingen. And please use the train every hour
from Bingen to Mainz. The train
station in Bingen is about 400 m left from the boat landing stages.
Question 31:
I'm
interested in more information about the Rhine River and visiting castles, but would like to see
the length of river from Dusseldorf to Basel as well for an overview. We will also be
taking some of your half day trips between Boppard and Bingen. Thank you for your
courtesy. Sincerely, Toby Smith
Answer 31:
It isn't possible to make a more-day-boat-cruise
from Dusseldorf to Basel AND to make half day trips between Boppard and Bingen. You can
make only one of both. The more-day-boat-cruises don't stop to see some of the castles and
the small half timbered villages on the middle Rhine River.
Question 32: Is it
possible to take a train from Frankfurt to the closest
Rhine River town and cruise for the day then take a train back to Frankfurt? We will be in
Frankfurt and were
hoping to see some of the Rhine River while there. Thank you. Sandy Upton
Answer 32:
It is possible to take a train from Frankfurt to one of the
closest Rhine River town Rudesheim or Bingen and cruise for the day:
schedule
and cruise ticket prices from Rudesheim or Bingen to St. Goar. Then take
a train back to Frankfurt.
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