Cost: (double occupancy) 479 UK
low season from May 1 - 12 May &
Sept 13 - Oct 17
Prices in UK pounds
499 UK high
season May 12 - Sept 12
Dates:
Start any day from May 1 -Oct 17
Tour profile: Easy - mainly flat cycle paths along the Danube
with some road when entering towns.
Tour Highlights :
* Enjoyable and relaxed cycling following the flat and
traffic-free cycle path - formerly a tow path
along the Danube.
* Discovering the treasure of St. Florian and Melk abbeys.
* Finishing the tour in Vienna with its impressive Habsburg
palaces, outstanding baroque
architecture and classical music links.
Included:
- Seven nights bed &
breakfast accommodation
in 3 and 4-star hotels.
Bicycle hire (7 or 21 gears)
Route descriptions and maps
Luggage transfer
Ferry from Melk to Spitz and Enns to Mauthausen
Train from Eferding to Linz or ferry from Aschach to Linz
Train from Greifenstein to Vienna
Optional Extras:
85 UK half board supplement
15 UK per night single supplement
47 UK per person extra night Vienna (62 UK single room)
35 UK per person extra night in Passau (45 UK single room)
Itinerary :
Day 1
: collect your bicycles and explore the beautiful town of
Passau.
Day 2 : follow the Danube to the
town of Engelhartszell with the only Trappist monastery in Austria
.Continue to
Schlogen where you will spend the night (26 miles).
Day 3 : admire the views as
you cycle along the dramatic bend in the Danube, the Schlogener Schlinge.
Complete the journey to LInz by ferry or train. Take a city tour or
a trip by cable car to Postlingberg, a
baroque pilgrimage church and fairytale grotto (19 miles).
Day 4 : cycle towards Enns, the
oldest town in Austria. Stop at the St. Florian Monastery.
Cross the Danube
by ferry to Mauthausen and continue by bike to Perg (24 miles).
Day 5: take the cycle path to Grein
and then past Habsburg Castle and Persenbeug to Marbach. From here
you will be transferred to your hotel in the pilgrimage resort of Maria
Taferi (36 miles).
Day 6: the Danube will lead you to
one of the world's most famous monasteries at Melk. Take the ferry to
Spitz
and then cycle on to Traismauer through Durnstein, where Richard the
Lionheart spent time (35 miles).
Day 7 : complete your journey
through the green valley to Klosterneuburg and Greifenstein. Here
you will
transfer into the centre of Vienna by train (26 miles).
Day 8 : departure day.
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