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We would like to thank you once more for your assist in planning this trip. &nbsp;Arrived home Tuesday evening. &nbsp;Very well planned and conducted including tour guides, sightseeing, transportation and the hotels were all excellent!

Indus Travels

The Best of Central Europe

"We loved it. You do a great job. Location was in the most scenic part of the Rhine and shopping and train were very close. 
Natalie brought with her lots of local information and train, boat schedules station schedules which were very helpful. as the book did not have that much information."

Untours

The Germany - Rhine Untour

No travel with then completely desaster 
First and last
Hotel accommodations really cheap, they mix you with 40 people in the same bus

Europamundo Vacations

A piece of Europe

Intrepid Travel

Exodus Adventure Travels

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Globus

Contiki

Avalon Waterways

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Cosmos

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Planet Rail

The vast majority of this trip is in cycle paths separated from road traffic 
with some lightly trafficked roads and only very occasional roads with 
significant traffic, and even then you are usually separated from them by a 
barrier of some type: in fact, if none of the above applies, you're probably 
'lost' although that, too, is really difficult to do as the river is hard to 
lose and the signage is excellent! A large proportion is on a Euro cycle path 
from the Black Sea to the Atlantic and it is very well maintained: UK 
councils could learn a thing or two about maintaining safe cycling 
environments from the Austrians. The scenery is at times spectacular and 
varies from day to day as the river meanders across Austria. The 
accommodation we got was generally very good and there was usually somewhere 
good to have dinner in the evening. Lunch stops were a bit thin on the ground 
but we usually found somewhere. The bicycles were heavy but in very good 
nick: the route is mostly flat and any slight downhills outnumber the uphills 
- which often related to gaining the altitude required to cross over the 
bridges over the river rather than anything else. There are churches in 
abundance, from big to small and most towns have a schloss (castle). There 
are some spectacular monasteries and when you get to Vienna, it is clear that 
it was the centre of the world for quite a long time with monuments and 
buildings to show for it! The distances are manageable - on the last day, you 
can get a train to cut the distance down to about 50 km but we decided to 
cycle from Krems to Vienna (about 90 km) and we survived!
The abbey at Melk is very impressive, and the old castle (ruins) at 
Hinterhaus are worth a visit for the view (takes about 30-40 minutes off 
saddle to walk up to it just before Spitz).


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Cycling on the Danube from Passau to Vienna

The organisation worked well. Trip notes and maps together made route finding 
easy. The route was varied and interesting; opportunities for eating and 
drinking were many. The quality of hotels was good, though only two provided 
tea or coffee making facilities in the room. The bikes were well-maintained, 
but are rather heavy, so it was a good job the route was mostly flat. There 
were no bottle cages provided, which made stopping for water a bit of a faff! 
Overall, a very enjoyable week.
too many to mention.


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Make sure you have ridden a bike a lot in recent times. Savlon helps with 
saddle soreness. Learn a bit of German, particularly to do with food and 
drink. Being able to read a map is essential if you miss the direction signs, 
though they are generally pretty clear.


I don't think so.

This is an easy ride; and the route is varied and very attractive. Virtually 
none of the cycling is along roads with motor traffic; and I appreciated how 
the sign-posted Danube cycle path diverted, from time to time, away from the 
river bank to go through fields, woods and quiet villages. The hotels, 
baggage transfers and logistics worked very well. I was impressed by the 
quality of the accommodation -- and its variety.
The steep valleys and remoteness on the first two days. The Donauschlinge 
resort at Schloegen is lovely.


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If you don`t have a GPS app or device, be wary of the (sometimes thin) 
written instructions for getting into and out of some of the towns, as 
supplied by the Radreisefreunde local organisers. You are given maps as well 
as written directions, at the briefing meeting at the beginning. The maps 
were generally excellent; but they don`t always correspond to where you`re 
staying (they provide for multiple overnight accommodation alternatives -- 
and in some cases none of those apply to your particular itinerary). I found 
difficulty getting out of Melk on the right track; and into the right place 
in Vienna on the final day. However, overall, navigation was easy and 
trouble-free.

A wonderful trip on perfectly manicured cycle path and very very flat, short 
hops each day and its an ideal beginners trip, a couple of bike ferry 
crossings which break the day up and the ferry goes when you get there and if 
you miss it then its back in ten minutes. Hotels were of a good standard and 
a real mix and match and you just never sure what you going to get or if any 
of the people whos on your trip will be there or not as they seem to put 
everyone in different hotels if possible. weather wasn't great when we were 
there and some nasty wind and rain, and i imagine this would have been even 
better in nice weather, Please note its self guided and not run by Exodus 
travel and the company werent even to sure who Exodus were, but it still all 
went smooth.
The sights and sounds and the photos dont do any of it justice, Melek 
Monistray was really pretty amazing, but so was it all really, it was like 
turning a page in a book and everyone ones as good or if not better than the 
last.


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If you look for an easy run then do this as there is nothing taxing or 
difficult about this and the cycle paths are perfect.

My wife has been keen on a trip through vienna for a while. We chose the 
passau to vienna trip as other reviewers rated it higher than the similar 
vienna to Budapest. Both follow the danube. The best thing about this trip is 
that being relatively gentle paced it allows time to visit places on the way, 
which is really the whole point. We saw a WW II concentration camp (utterly 
horrific) , visited a trappist monastery and tasted their beer and spirits, 
saw an awful lot of other churches, monasteries and gardens. The whole 
cycling route is dotted with pleasant cafes. The route plan recommends good 
restaurants and we were not disappointed. Austria is accustomed to vegetarian 
and vegan diets. The palaces and museums of vienna are spectacular, the 
kaisers crypt is worth a visit. We recommend a great veggie restaurant in 
vienna called Tian. The guide notes are very simple but in a good way. I 
recommend having a phone with Google maps or similar when you get to the 
cities though... Much easier to navigate the busy streets. The bikes on hire 
are a good standard, though we like to bring our own saddles and pedals.

We took the option of an extra few days in vienna, I knocked a star off 
because the information on this part was not so well organised. We were given 
turn by turn instructions but no accompanying map and there was some 
confusion about whether we were supposed to have a vienna pass. (this would 
have saved us a lot of money it turned out later)
The thing that will stay with me is what we saw in the mauthausen 
concentration camp.


Self guided


Take in the sights on the way. A set of waterproofs and overshoes were useful 
on our only wet day.

A relaxing diversion, with interesting things to see on the way

My partner and I did the self guided ride and enjoyed it very much. It gave us the chance to feel we really experienced the lovely Austrian scenery, pretty villages and towns with a sense of achievment to have done a 300 +km ride. My partner is 79!
We loved riding through the fields of corn, through the vineyards with the vines laden with grapes and through the dappled light in the forests. The Danube was always&nbsp; a source of activity and interest and we crossed it many times on the quaint little wooden ferries .
The towns of Grien and Melk were particularly lovely places to stay overnight.
There were some interesting side trips offered. Luggage transfers went smoothly. All the hotels were of a good standard and Hotel Nibelungenhof in Traismaure was really excellent with wonderful warm hospitality and superb food.

We were on our own

If you can google the map on your phone Im sure it would be a big help as the Trip notes let us down on several occasions. Dont worry about the bikes, they are excellent and almost ride themselves. Stefan who set us up with the bikes in Passau was most helpful and accomodating.

We were only given one set of trip notes and one bag and we found this difficult. Please issue these to all riders. We would have preferreed to be accomodated in a smaller town than Linz. It was the small towns that were an important part of our enjoyment of the trip, Grien, Melk and Traismauer were lovely.
The trip notes were obscure at times and this combined with our not so hot navigational talents meant we rode many more kms than necessary.
For example Linz- Grien We could not find Werksstrasse after the Mittenkirk Bridge.Pg 21 of trip notes. says "take care" re the branching road.. It would have been simpler to say follow the Donauradweg signs turning right on the path before the fork in the road. This lead us to do 8 extra km on out longest day. 
Melk - Krems Traismauer. The trip notes say simply "continue" to Hotle Nibelungenhof. We needed to know which way to continue. We got lost again. 
Traismauer- Vienna. We had been given train tickets from&nbsp; Traismauer&nbsp; to Tulln but when we got to the station at 9.30am we were told there are no trains, we gathered they only depart at peak hour. This was frustratiing as we had anticipated riding 40km, not 80 that day. 
Arriving in Vienna. This turned into a nightmare and we took 2 hours from the outskirst to our hotel. Pg 34 says "turn right at the JV Schemmeri Bruche" It is very hard to see the name on this brige- and we missed it- however there are 2 huge lions on it. It would have been helpful if we were looking for the lions not an small obscure name. Try and simplify the directions to hotel Donauzentrum. We took nearly 8 hrs to ride that leg and were exhausted at the end.
It would be helpful if you gave the full addresses of the hotels, at the end of the day you want all the help you can get to arrive there!
We felt that the trip was maybe a lillte pricey when we discovered the accomodation costs. 
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