Easy-to-moderate cycling featuring undulating routes with more frequent short ascents, and a mix of shorter and longer days.
The season for this holiday is:
04 May - 06 October 2019
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| °C | 2 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 3 |
| mm | 31 | 32 | 45 | 43 | 62 | 72 | 68 | 61 | 42 | 37 | 46 | 36 |
Travelling from the UK
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Birmingham - Vienna | Eurowings |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Bristol - Vienna | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Gatwick - Vienna | British Airways, easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Heathrow - Vienna | Austrian Airlines, British Airways |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Luton - Vienna | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| London Southend - Vienna | Flybe |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Stansted - Linz | Ryanair |
| Stansted - Vienna | Eurowings, Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Manchester - Vienna | Austrian Airlines, easyJet |
This list of flight options should be used as a guide only, and you should check each airline’s website for current routes, frequency and schedules. Not all flights operate daily, and may not run for the entire season. You should also heed the latest flight arrival time and earliest flight departure time stated in the connecting travel section, as it may not be possible to arrange connecting travel outside these times. Please do not book your flights until we have confirmed your accommodation to you. Alternatively, our expert reservations team will be happy to offer advice and to make flight bookings for you. We charge £30 per person for our flight booking service (£50 for India and Nepal). Your flights are then covered by our package-booking conditions, which give you greater protection in the event of delay or cancellation, as well as providing ATOL cover.
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We all really enjoyed this cycle tour. The Wachau is a beautiful part of Austria and cycling is an ideal way of exploring it. It was very hot when we went (we hit the heatwave in July), so we didn't stop at as many of the recommended sights, as we would have liked. However, we all loved the lake at Weitenegg (much better than Luberegg), which had plenty of shade and a mid-lake trampoline. The hotel pools were also a blessing: an outdoor one and an indoor one with roof terrace at Maria Taferl, and a small but beautifully formed rooftop pool and terrace at Durnstein. There is also a very good outdoor pool complex at Melk with slides and a diving pool - bring your own towels though, we forgot! The hotels we stayed in on this trip were all good; Hotel Schachner and Gartenhotel Pfeffel were excellent. We enjoyed delicious and copious breakfasts and dinners at all three places, to the extent that we barely needed lunch. We did have the odd ice cream and cake though - regional specialities being apricot tart (it was apricot season when we went so the fruits were everywhere!) and Mohnkuchen, a poppy seed cake. Altogether a very enjoyable week in a lovely part of Austria, and one to which we hope to return - perhaps in spring or autumn next time though!
It was an outstanding holiday from the beginning to the end.... Great customer service from the Inntravel team, quality hotels with superb facilities and timely transfers throughout.... We’re already planning our next Inntravel holiday and we’ve only been back in the UK for 24 hours!
The views of the Danube and the surrounding countryside were spectacular! Significant portions of the bike path were right up to rather busy roads with fast moving cars and trucks that were rather unsettling and somewhat dangerous, particularly for less experienced young cyclists. Construction around the Kunsthalle in Krems forced a detour off of the main path that was not expected and led to some confusion and difficulty regaining the foreseen route. Rain on the last day led us to extend the river cruise from Dürnstein all the way to Melk to avoid too much cycling in the rain at some additional cost for the extended cruise.
The majority of our prescribed route for this holiday follows the Passau to Vienna cycle path which runs parallel to the river and main thoroughfare along the wide Danube valley. The metalled designated cycle path is broad and caters well for the number of cyclists which use this popular route.
We all really enjoyed this cycle tour. The Wachau is a beautiful part of Austria and cycling is an ideal way of exploring it. It was very hot when we went (we hit the heatwave in July), so we didn't stop at as many of the recommended sights, as we would have liked. However, we all loved the lake at Weitenegg (much better than Luberegg), which had plenty of shade and a mid-lake trampoline. The hotel pools were also a blessing: an outdoor one and an indoor one with roof terrace at Maria Taferl, and a small but beautifully formed rooftop pool and terrace at Durnstein. There is also a very good outdoor pool complex at Melk with slides and a diving pool - bring your own towels though, we forgot! The hotels we stayed in on this trip were all good; Hotel Schachner and Gartenhotel Pfeffel were excellent. We enjoyed delicious and copious breakfasts and dinners at all three places, to the extent that we barely needed lunch. We did have the odd ice cream and cake though - regional specialities being apricot tart (it was apricot season when we went so the fruits were everywhere!) and Mohnkuchen, a poppy seed cake. Altogether a very enjoyable week in a lovely part of Austria, and one to which we hope to return - perhaps in spring or autumn next time though!
It was an outstanding holiday from the beginning to the end.... Great customer service from the Inntravel team, quality hotels with superb facilities and timely transfers throughout.... We’re already planning our next Inntravel holiday and we’ve only been back in the UK for 24 hours!
The views of the Danube and the surrounding countryside were spectacular! Significant portions of the bike path were right up to rather busy roads with fast moving cars and trucks that were rather unsettling and somewhat dangerous, particularly for less experienced young cyclists. Construction around the Kunsthalle in Krems forced a detour off of the main path that was not expected and led to some confusion and difficulty regaining the foreseen route. Rain on the last day led us to extend the river cruise from Dürnstein all the way to Melk to avoid too much cycling in the rain at some additional cost for the extended cruise.
The majority of our prescribed route for this holiday follows the Passau to Vienna cycle path which runs parallel to the river and main thoroughfare along the wide Danube valley. The metalled designated cycle path is broad and caters well for the number of cyclists which use this popular route.
Thoroughly enjoyed the holiday being so well organised for our family and would readily recommend Inntravel.
On the whole this was an excellent, very good value holiday and totally relaxing. It was wonderful to spend the day cycling along the Danube, interspersed with visits to fascinating castles and monasteries, and then to be able to relax in comfortable hotels with excellent food. My son and I also got to practise our German regularly, which was an added bonus.
A very enjoyable holiday with grandchildren with excellent accommodation, good bikes and an interesting route, especially the Wachau region.
Overall very impressed by the organisation and detail of the tour. The half board menus were very restricted and so it would be good to have had the option, on booking, of à la carte when not having free nights as in Melk. The Hotel Schachner was very busy and on one night we were shunted in to a side room for dinner and had to share the - not so good - buffet with a corporate group booking who took up the whole restaurant. The hotel in Durstein was very nice - best rooms here - but again the set menu on the half board option was not great - turkey curry one night??? The mountain bike for adult was VERY heavy and the lock did not work.
We are pleased you enjoyed the holiday, but sorry the half board menus were not always to your taste. Austrian hotels favour half board menus for guests and, in theory, this should result in the inclusion of a menu of better quality than would be possible where a wider choice is available, and allows chefs to make use of high quality, local, seasonal produce. It should always be possible to discuss alternatives if the half board menu is not to your liking and we are sorry you did not feel able to discuss this or the bike lock issue locally.
This was an excellent family holiday and we will definitely be doing it again. I would recommend taking swimming kit each day and looking out for the lidos along the way as the facilities were all excellent and very clean. Our 8 year old boy also took a small football to stop off at the many pitches for a kick-about en-route everyday.