Beat the recession by holidaying in the Bavarian Forest

In these days of economic gloom and volatile exchange rates, it is good to know that holidays in the Bavarian Forest still offer amazing value for money.

 

Our best 5 star apartments in the peak summer season cost about €25 per person per night. Of peak, the price can be just  under €20 per person per night. And the rent includes an unusual number of extras in the price:

·        bread rolls, spread, jam, muesli, fruit juice and milk for breakfast on the 1st morning of your stay (additional supplies of these plus yoghurts, ham and cheese and ready made meals are available to buy)

·        essential supplies for the duration of your stay: coffee, English tea, sugar, cooking oil, olive oil and wine vinegar for salads, salt/pepper/herbs/spices, flour, washing up liquid, dishwasher tablets, aluminium foil and cling film, toilet rolls, liquid soap and shower gel. (Bathrobes, slippers and swimming/sauna towels are also provided free of charge).

 

·        vouchers for local restaurants

As well as:

·        bedlinen and towels

·        final cleaning

·        tourist tax

 

You can use our table tennis, table football, pool table, darts, DVDs and CDs and small gym free of charge. (We make a small charge for use of our mountain bikes and sauna).

 

The best restaurants in the area can provide a substantial main course plus a half litre of beer or quarter litre of wine for under €15. Or you can book a 3 course meal at the best restaurant in the village for €12 per person (drinks are extra and some dishes have a small surcharge). We have listed some examples from the menu below.

 

Up to 5 adults can travel all day on trains and buses within Bavaria for a total of €28. All-day tickets on the local trains and buses cost €7 per adult. Children travel free on these tickets.

 

At the best swimming complex in the area, a day ticket for 2 adults and 3 children costs €14.50. Entrance fees to museums etc. are often €5 or less for adults, with reductions for children.

 

And skiing, although more limited than at the big alpine resorts, also offers great value for money – 5 days equipment hire under €60, 5 day lift pass €99, 3 days skiing lessons €60. Check out www.arber.de (check the snow on the webcam!)

 

A number of people have already booked their stays with us for skiing and for next summer.

 

Visit our website www.bavarian-forest-holidays.com now. Let us know if you have any questions.

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Child Friendly Holidays in the Bavarian Forest

Germany is a very child friendly country – not gushy like the Latins, but children’s existence and needs are taken for granted. Most restaurants have high chairs and a children’s menu. Many restaurants and places of interests have children’s play areas. Getting around the area by public transport is easy from Bayerisch Eisenstein, especially using the local Waldbahn trains, which are easy to get on and off with young children and pushchairs. Parents who want to walk in the forest with pushchairs will find plenty of forest roads and cycle paths. At Haus Sterr, we have cots, high chairs and other baby equipment, toys for babies as well as older children, children’s DVDs, and a play area in the garden with slide, sandpit and paddling pool. The following are some of the things to do in the area with young children : In Bayerisch Eisenstein, there is an excellent children’s playground in the village park in the centre of the village. And on Fridays most weeks of the year there is a horse and cart ride through the forest.  Swimming: our guests love the Osserbad at Lam and there is also swimming at Zwiesel. Both have indoor and outdoor pools.Walks from the village: Schwellhaeusl, an old woodcutter’s hut in the forest with lake, playground, animals and restaurant, is very popular but takes about 1 hour to walk to and cannot be reached by car. Can be accessed by cycle routes with a pushchair. The walk across the border to Zelezna Ruda is mostly on a cycle route and easily done with a pushchair.
Outings (all within 30 minutes drive of Bayerisch Eisenstein):·    Take the gondola to the top of the Arber mountain where there is a children’s playground and restaurants. ·    At the Grosser Arbersee lake there is a walk around the lake (part difficult with a pushchair), pedaloes, a restaurant and a park with fairy tale figures. ·    Regenhuette Animal Museum ·    Lohberg Tierpark with animals indigenous to the area and the tourist ‘train’ to the Kleiner Arbersee Lake ·    Lam Fairytale and Ghost Castle ·    Ludwigsthal – Haus zur Wildnis – wide, flat paths lead past animal enclosures to the Information Centre, with play area and information for children, 3D cinema, shop and cafe ·    Joska Crystal at Bodenmais has play areas and activities for children ·    Sommerrodelbahns – there are 4 summer toboggan runs in the area, the nearest is at Bodenmais, with a cable car and plenty of children’s activities ·    There are 3 fun parks in the region o   Hohenbogen at Neukirchen bei Heiligen Blut. o   BayernPark at Reisbach (between Dingolfing and Eggenfelden). o   Churpfalz Park, Loifling bei Cham  Winter:Skiing: children can learn to ski at the Ski KindergartenTobogganing: there is a toboggan run behind Haus Sterr (toboggans and sliders can be borrowed) as well as 2 toboggan runs on the Arber