Bingen am Rhein Travel Forum

We are staying in Bacharach. We are coming from Koln in the morning. We would like to stop at St. Goar and see Rheinfels Castle. We would love to take a round trip cruise of the Rhine River from St. Goar to Bacharach or Bacharach to St. Goar. Please remember we are staying in Bacharach for the night. So we need a round trip cruise.


Any suggestions for the best way to do this?

Any help would be appreciated.

JMcClanahan

I think you can buy a hop on/off ticket on KD Lines, the biggest shipping company. Otherwise, you can buy singles to everywhere and hop on the next boat - they are frequent enough, just check times everywhere carefully (although IF you get stranded there are trains). It's a great boat ride, although personally I found St Goar overrated compared to wonderful Bacharach.

http://www.k-d.com

You don't need a round trip cruise. There are railway lines on both sites of the Rhine. And you can do any boat + train combination you like.
If you can present a valid train ticket when buying a boat ticket you'll get a discount of 20%.

Hi,

agree, Bacharach is much nicer than St. Goar! Most of "Burg Rheinfels" is only a ruine, not so much to see. I would recomend: "Burg Sooneck" in Niederheimbach, have a look at the pictures at
http://www.rheintourist.de/hauptseite.php?framerechts=/sehenswertes/sooneck/sooneck.php (you can have a look at every rhine castle there!!)
or "Burg Rheinstein". There is a little train station in Bacharach, so you can take that instead.
Of course Bacharach has its own castle "Burg Stahleck", unfortunately you can not go inside because it´s a youth hostel. But the view from up there is wonderfull!!
If you like to make a boat roundtrip, try the "K-D Goethe" it´s an old pretty steamship (the only one I´ve ever seen on the rhine). You can hop on the Goethe at 13:30 in Bacharach, cruise to Rüdesheim (1 hour time to have a look at Rüdesheim), go back to Bacharach on Goethe at 16:15, price is 25,80 Euro, whole trip 1 person.

Have a nice trip :-)

You will see ferry docks for B-R lines and K-D lines on the water in either town. B-R is cheaper, if you don't have a Eurorail pass. And when I was there it was much less crowded. No need to buy tickets online, but maybe an hour before to be on the safe side. Here's the B-R sked. http://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.com/rhine-cruise/lorelei/index.html
Also, I thought Rheinfels castle was a lot of fun. Don't try to follow a written tour, just get lost like a kid! Take a flashlight for the tunnels. I think 2 hours at Rheinfels is about right.
The train also travels to both towns in about 10 minutes, if you don't want to take the time to take the ferry upstream.
Just take the ferry whichever way works out best with your schedule.