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:
02 May 2020 - 30 September 2020
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| °C | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 4 |
| mm | 46 | 32 | 40 | 42 | 48 | 59 | 70 | 60 | 53 | 43 | 53 | 49 |
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The quality of the cycle paths, the welcome at each hotel. People so very pleasant. Lovely rural areas with plenty of space and peacefulness.
Hotel Scheelehof (apparently having being a brewery years ago) was a particular treat in a fascinating town. The sauna and pool at hotel Solthus am See, Baabe absolutely heavenly especially after a day in the saddle.
Hiddensee was a lovely day out, most unusual and interesting with three delightful little ports and rather twee thatched cottages and no cars apart from essential vehicles. Very special.
Wonderful beaches (naturist) along east coast of island.
My husband and I had an amazing journey around Rügen, each day we set out, our cycle journey proved different from the last day's adventures and sights. We loved the week as cycling on the island enabled us to detach ourselves from our everyday life - we really switched off. Returning to Stralsund especially to the divine surroundings, food and service of the Romantik Hotel Scheelehof was like returning from a shared dream that we have already escaped to many times since returning.
The quality of the cycle paths, the welcome at each hotel. People so very pleasant. Lovely rural areas with plenty of space and peacefulness.
Hotel Scheelehof (apparently having being a brewery years ago) was a particular treat in a fascinating town. The sauna and pool at hotel Solthus am See, Baabe absolutely heavenly especially after a day in the saddle.
Hiddensee was a lovely day out, most unusual and interesting with three delightful little ports and rather twee thatched cottages and no cars apart from essential vehicles. Very special.
Wonderful beaches (naturist) along east coast of island.
My husband and I had an amazing journey around Rügen, each day we set out, our cycle journey proved different from the last day's adventures and sights. We loved the week as cycling on the island enabled us to detach ourselves from our everyday life - we really switched off. Returning to Stralsund especially to the divine surroundings, food and service of the Romantik Hotel Scheelehof was like returning from a shared dream that we have already escaped to many times since returning.
We were blessed with good weather, impressed by Rugen's cycle tracks and delighted by the abundance of wild flowers on the roadsides. The bikes were comfortable and well-prepared. A great holiday week.
The whole holiday was excellent. A great insight into the island of Rügen. Loved the varied itinerary. Fun getting the little boat and ferries. The train went well too. The food was fabulous in particular the Hotel Solthus and Romantik. The bags were always in our rooms waiting for us. Happy with the bikes too. Some parts were tough but complimented by opportunity for easy days. Money well spent. Had a great time.
We have used Inntravel several times in the past for cycling trips and they are hard to beat. The unusual location attracted us to this holiday (Rugen Island) and it did not disappoint. The culture and history on the island is fascinating, the cycling was mainly away from traffic and the views were impressive. Everyone we met was friendly and helpful, and there were very few english speakers (a plus for us - an opportunity to brush off our high school German!)
We had lots of highlights: E bikes - brilliant for the older cyclist. The landscape, the peace and quiet and the cycle paths, which made travel very stressless. The hotels, the fish brötchen for lunch and the local beer, in all its varieties. Hiddensee, which is like going back in time.
Interestingly, we did not meet any other English visitors. Rügen is clearly a very popular destination for German holidaymakers.
An absolutely brilliant holiday. At the end we really wished we could do it all over again. The quality of information, equipment and hotels were all excellent. As ever you choose small hotels with character and excellent service from very friendly people. Rugen was a fascinating place to visit, with such beautiful seaside towns and lovely villages. I think that we were lucky to visit in May because the rape fields were in full flower and were so beautiful - I would recommend this time of year for the trip. I really liked the fact that very few people spoke English either, made it feel like we were truly in a different place.
It is a lovely walk directly from the hotel at Lohme through the Jasmund National Park along a well-marked trail to Sassnitz from where there is an hourly bus back. Peters bakery and cafe on the seafront at Sassnitz for lunch.
Cyclists are well-catered for with a good network of safe cycle paths. It is popular with locals and holiday-makers alike of all ages and abilities.
Rügen is a beautiful island and deserves to be better known. We saw no UK visitors whilst we were there, and apart from a couple of Dutch cars one day, all the visitors were German. A knowledge of German helps.
The first day's cycling was the longest day by far. The bikes are heavy, solid models built to cope with the frequently very rough ground, and so by the end of the first day, and even though we would consider ourselves fairly fit, we were exhausted. But it did become easier as the week progressed. Day 4 with a walk in the national park was lovely, and the hotel had plenty of leaflets with walking routes. We took the suggested extension on Day 5, which was worth it. However, even though we checked the wind forecast as suggested (it was apparently a light wind), the long push back to rejoin the main route was tough, fighting the wind. Fields are huge, with no hedges or trees to provide windbreaks. In the interests of soil erosion and cyclists, Inntravel should petition Rügen farmers to plant windbreaks! Even if you don't do the route extension, you'll still encounter the wind for long stretches on the final leg to the ferry. The last day, on the Island of Hiddensee, was an absolute delight - like stepping back in time. Peaceful, beautiful and yes, a little bit windy too in places.
We were so lucky with the weather though, with sunshine throughout. The rain began 5 minutes after boarding the ferry back to the mainland. There weren't many hills, and some had signs telling cyclists to dismount. Permission to walk and push the heavy bikes up hills was fine by me. Most cycling is flat or gently rolling, but the 19th century cobbles in some villages were tough going.
The included dinners at the hotels Solthuss am See and the Panorama Hotel at Lohme were good, although we thought wine was relatively expensive. Germans seem to eat earlier than us in restaurants and when we were half-way through our meal at the village restaurant in Schalpode, we were the only diners left. If it's not peak season, you might want to consider dinner and transfers 7-8.30 pm, rather than the 7.30-9.30 arranged for us. Given the issue we'd had with our taxi transfer to the restaurant, arriving 30 minutes late, we had still finished two courses well before 9.30pm.
How did you arrange for the migrating cranes to turn up right on cue? As we passed through Neddesitz, nine called and flew circling over us. And you arranged for the train to Berlin to stop in the middle of nowhere but there were cranes feeding nearby.
The dining experience at all places was very good but exceptional at the Panorama - plus the welcome by Herr Ogilvie.
The whole holiday was a fascinating insight into what makes Germany tick. The people were so helpful [and didn't laugh much at my abysmal attempts to speak their language].
We really enjoyed the Konigsstuhl Visitor Centre near Lohme. The day cycling around Baabe was lovely, and we also appreciated the chance to see the grotesque Prora building and the work being done to convert some of it into luxury apartments!
An awesome experience. Ruegen is a lovely peaceful island. The cycling was good. The staff at the Soltus hotel in Baabe were lovely and we were greeted with sparkling wine. Food on the island was superb. The bikes were great. First try on an e.bike. Will do again.
Ruegen is a fascinating island and a real treat for cyclists. The cycle paths in some parts are the best we have experienced and although the cobbled streets were sometimes a challenge, overall the routes were excellent. Looking back we wished we had spent an extra night at Hotel Solthus am See. The day cycling around that area was one of the best, but we would also have liked to hop on one of the boats which stopped there, and explore the coast, and the hotel itself is lovely, with good facilities. I guess there's never enough time to do everything. We were impressed by how courteous car drivers were towards us. Sadly we can't say the same for a very angry pedestrian in Sellin, who berated me first in German, and then in English, for riding on a quiet pavement, instead of against the traffic in a one way street!
It really was a holiday island. The seaside towns with their elegant buildings, beautiful white beaches and old fashioned piers were a delight to explore and Hiddensee with its traffic free roads was a real place to relax and unwind. We loved all the different fish that we were able to try along with some of the other local produce.
An ideal island for a cycling holiday. The Baltic sunset at Lohme is very impressive.