Bonn Travel Forum

Hello all To-Be Participants and everybody else who's interested in coming!
This is a thread to discuss issues of the meeting.

I thought for all those early birds, I might already post some hotel recommendations:

Youth Hostel Bonn (elevated standard, also family and single rooms)
http://www.djh-rheinland.org/jh/bonn/eng/index.htm
-- inexpensive, excellent value for money, on a hill about 3 km from the city centre (bus connection, taxi to/from city centre will be about 15 EUR)


Hotel Burg Dottendorf
http://www.burgdottendorf.de/indexeg.html
-- small and very neat, prices about average

Hotel Garni Jacobs
-- inexpensive, compareable to a British guesthouse
http://www.hotel-jacobs-garni.de/
also appartments available

Sorry 27-29 October 2006 that is :))

Bookmark :) Thanks for the hotels Win.

Tickets are being bought, thanks for the hotel info
What about this one Win? Is it pretty central
Hotel Consul
Oxfordstr. 12-16
53111 Bonn (City)
Germany

I have a friend who works for octopustravel so can get a good discount, there is a possiblity I could get discount for other folks as well. I assume my friend would get this double / twin hotel room for £90 for the 2 nights.

Hotel itself should be okay, it's very centrally located. Problem might be that it is located on one of Bonn's busiest streets (separating the hotel from the pedestrian zone). If you stay there, make sure you got a room looking out into the courtyard, away from Oxfordstraße. The price is pretty good for a double.

Just Wine-marking. Just in case :)

We've booked our flights so we're definetly coming :-)

Will be good to see you Maria & sidekick P - will work on you on friday :-)

I`m on the winelist to ;-)

welcome aboard Allan!

Here is another hotel recommendation:

http://www.hotel-weinhaus-hoff.de/english/index.html

This one is recommended if you don't mind using the tram to get to the city center. The hotel is located in Bad Honnef, a wealthy suburb of Bonn, located on a gentle slope in the Rhine Valley, just beneath the 7-hills range. The 10-minute walk to the tram station leads through wonderful streets lined with expensive half-timbered houses.

I am currently investigating doing our Wine-Tasting there, as the hotel has a well-known Rhenish wine-bar. Even without the wine-tasting, it is a good place to stay, offering very reasonable rates.

The tram ride into Bonn will take about 30 minutes. Distance to city centre is about 10 km.

Thanks Win .... :-D

Win your itenary sounds good I am really keen to try some German reds so a visit to that area will be good.

Here is another link to inexpensive hotels. It might be beneficial (though by no means necessary) to try to find a hotel that is within a 3 km perimeter from Bonn's central railway station (Hauptbahnhof)

http://www.best-budget-bonn.de/index-eng.html

Hiya guys,

Ohh I didn't know about this forum yet...but here I am ...I am probably attending this fabulous meeting, but it is not 100 % sure yet ... anyway, I am looking forward to seeing you all ...


HORSCHECK :-)

I've been given guardianship of Backpackermoose for a couple of months, with strict orders from Rusket that it's my duty to take him travelling.

I've put him out to stud amongst our local deer population and charging the keepers by the hour. If his stamina holds out, we will be there. It's all on the moose now ;o)

LOL I think the last moose that appeared in Germany was an illegal immigrant from Poland and was killed when trying to cross a railway line. However, the Germans are known to be a moose-crazy country (ask the Swedes who had to change their roadsigns because German tourists would steal them when they had a moose picture on them)

I think Backpackermoose will be fine... we will watch for him near the railroad tracks, guard him against crazy robbers and make sure he doesn't drink too much wine.... :)

Well Donna will be thrilled, we all know the affection she & Elge have for each other even if she is too coy to admit it :-) hehe

haha Win, what a great story. I'll bring over loads of Moose paraphenalia then - I could make a fortune ;o)

Yes Jo, I sure hope Donna doesn't get upset that Elge is sleeping in my bed!

Oh yes Win, we even sell mock moose signs to Germans in petrol stations nowadays...

Well she may have something to say about that when she discovers this link :-))

w-mark.

Its no 2 on my to do list. (no 1 being my new appt to get ready)

LOL Ingrid who needs an apartment if you can get a nice hotel room and a prepared breakfast :))

For those of you who know some German, the wine estate we will visit (http://www.weingut-sonnenberg.de) has been featured in regional television -- so I guess it is not such an insider's tip anymore ;)

If you'd like to see the short media clip, follow the link and click on the blue headline "TV-Beitrag ansehen" in the top right corner. Requires Realaudio player.

http://www.swr.de/landesschau-rp/ratgeber/essen/strauss/-/id=803096/nid=803096/did=809640/1lxoejm/index.html

Win, its for coming back. If i do buy that casked of white i need a place to drink it.

Bought a casket of Riesling myself in Mayschoss, the vintners' association has some very good terraced, sunny, steep, south-sided yards in the valley. They also have some wonderful light and tasty rosé wines made from the Pinot grapes.

We will be able to sample them all at the winefest in Mayschoss when we visit the village working our way down the valley :))

Stop you're making me thirsty :-)

BTW here is a very good English guide to the valley :))

http://home.arcor.de/ahrtal/indexe.html

Thanks for these links Win. It certainly looks a beautiful area.

Hiya guys,

I am finally joining the famous WineRoll meeting from Saturday morning until Sunday morning. I am really looking forward to meeting you all.

Has anyone of you already booked an accomodation? So where are you guys staying? Any recommendations are welcome.

See you all

HORSCHECK :o)

Donna, Clive Barker & I are staying in hotel Consul Bonn central,
We got a good deal through www.octopustravel.com
Look forward to meeting you soon :-)

Cripes. It's easy for me to get to Bonn, Win.
HLX from Birmingham, or Easyjet from Nottingham.
Either are only £77.98 total!!!!!

Now to smile sweetly at the big boss man! ;o)

To bad I can not say the same as poons … it will be to expensive to get from Copenhagen to Bonn for just a weekend of fun and wine. Hope you all will have a lot of fun and to see you all at some other meeting.