Cheers for that Wapping i went to the Black Forest section for advice, but will now go into the Germany One.
Booking dot com etc we only use as a last resort, would rather have actual feedback and advice from a bike person who has actually visited . Cheers mate
Now we are starting to cook with gas.
If you go to the sticky ‘Germany calling’ and scroll down, you’ll find the links to the hotels. The advantage is that the links will sometimes open up all sorts of other good stuff. For example, from the Tourenfahrer site, selecting a hotel that looks OK ie it looks that it would suit YOU, as opposed to suiting some unknown bod who happens to maybe ride a GS motorcycle (I don’t) who’s idea of a good hotel is if it is right next door to the kebab shop (whose vent is right outside the window of your room) or stuck at the bottom of a mountain with no views, might bring you routes to ride:
I don’t subscribe to the “I’ll only stay where somebody unknown tells me it’s OK” school. If everyone did that, there would only be one or two hotels, fully booked for years to come. I have never come across a hotel that is so unfriendly to a bloke on a motorcycle that I’d wish I was dead. I have found some great places, sometimes by looking at the internet, sometimes by chance. Sometimes, when stopping for a coffee, I might look across the street and think to myself, “That’s a nice looking hotel, I’ll go across and pick up the details from the receptionist”. I then make a note of it for another time. Sometimes I have used the hotel, sometimes I haven’t. Either way, the note is still there, on my iPad, which means I can find it easily.
You ride and have bought into the whole Adventure (with a capital A) bike thing. Start your adventure by picking hotels, not just relying on what someone else suggests. It builds confidence for the next time. Then, when you’ve found a hotel you like, share it here. It spreads the love.
Have a good holiday.
Richard
