Hi just looking at a sort trip to France and has any person a recommended hotel /B&B in the Vosges area as a centre for a few days riding?
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Balders1450
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We stayed here last year at Hoerdt, it's between the Black Forest and Vosages, both great for roads..Really comfortable rooms, pleanty of restaurants in town, 5 mins walk...Plus if you're a Tweeter....there's a Storks nest in the garden!....
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/landhome/home.htm
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/landhome/home.htm
Stayed in the Chalets des Roches in La Bresse a couple of years ago. Bike friendly and very accommodating for a big group. Gerardmer looks like a nice place, but no idea about where to stay.
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Good range of hotels in Gerardmer - stayed a couple of times, just rolled up to a likely looking place each time.
i'll see if i can find the name of hotel.
Lovely roads all around.
i'll see if i can find the name of hotel.
Lovely roads all around.
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Here's what I posted a couple of years ago:
We've stayed in Gerardmer a few times, and here twice:
Hotel Au Petit Boulas
4, place du Tilleul
GERARDMER
Tél : 03 29 27 10 06
Fax : 03 29 27 11 91
Can't find a website. It was clean, cheap, did unfussy but very nice grub, and had a secure garage behind the hotel for parking the bikes. It was not at all modern! In fact, a typical French hotel, all non-matching furniture and enormous room keys.
It is a great biking area, and I don't know why more people don't rave about it. The higher passes are fairly high, though. Last time I was there was in mid-May and while the roads were clear, there was still serious snow on the ground in the mountains and it was bloody freezing!
There are enough roads to fill three or four days of gentle exploring without too much retracing of steps. Gerardmer is pretty central and everywhere is accessible from there in a day. There are no bad roads!
I've never really explored Gerardmer or any of the towns in the area, although a quick trip round the lake is pleasant enough. The roads themselves are just great, though. The Route des Cretes is a good north-south ride, but zig-zagging east and west will cover more of the roads. Col de la Schluct is always fun but gets very busy with bikes on a sunny weekend - not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. The car park and bar at the top gets very busy, but it makes for a pleasant half hour wandering looking at the bikes. You can also go on the dry toboggan chute thing but that looks too scary and dangerous to me.
Col du Bonhomme was being widened last time I was there. Hopefully this means it'll now be like a race track! Some of the minor roads across the mountains are pretty twisty, though - ideal for a GS. The road tunnel at St Marie aux Mines is closed now, I believe, but the equivalent pass to St Marie was one of my favourites.
If you have time, a trip across to Germany and around parts of the Black Forest is worth it and maked for a good (if slightly long) day trip. The road to Marckolsheim on the Rhine flood plain is so wide, smooth and straight that it it impossible not to cane it before you cross over the river. At Riegel in Germany is the brewery that makes Reigler beer - you have to have one as you have your sausage and chips in a little cafe.
Try this as a round trip: Gerardmer, Ribeauville, Marckolsheim, Riegel, Elsbach, Schonwald, Furtwangen, Titisee, Todtnau, Badenweiler, Guebwiller, Gerardmer. 7-odd hours riding, add in two or three hours for meals and a coffee, and I reckon that's as good a day's road riding as you'll get!
Enjoy your trip. When are you going?
We've stayed in Gerardmer a few times, and here twice:
Hotel Au Petit Boulas
4, place du Tilleul
GERARDMER
Tél : 03 29 27 10 06
Fax : 03 29 27 11 91
Can't find a website. It was clean, cheap, did unfussy but very nice grub, and had a secure garage behind the hotel for parking the bikes. It was not at all modern! In fact, a typical French hotel, all non-matching furniture and enormous room keys.
It is a great biking area, and I don't know why more people don't rave about it. The higher passes are fairly high, though. Last time I was there was in mid-May and while the roads were clear, there was still serious snow on the ground in the mountains and it was bloody freezing!
There are enough roads to fill three or four days of gentle exploring without too much retracing of steps. Gerardmer is pretty central and everywhere is accessible from there in a day. There are no bad roads!
I've never really explored Gerardmer or any of the towns in the area, although a quick trip round the lake is pleasant enough. The roads themselves are just great, though. The Route des Cretes is a good north-south ride, but zig-zagging east and west will cover more of the roads. Col de la Schluct is always fun but gets very busy with bikes on a sunny weekend - not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. The car park and bar at the top gets very busy, but it makes for a pleasant half hour wandering looking at the bikes. You can also go on the dry toboggan chute thing but that looks too scary and dangerous to me.
Col du Bonhomme was being widened last time I was there. Hopefully this means it'll now be like a race track! Some of the minor roads across the mountains are pretty twisty, though - ideal for a GS. The road tunnel at St Marie aux Mines is closed now, I believe, but the equivalent pass to St Marie was one of my favourites.
If you have time, a trip across to Germany and around parts of the Black Forest is worth it and maked for a good (if slightly long) day trip. The road to Marckolsheim on the Rhine flood plain is so wide, smooth and straight that it it impossible not to cane it before you cross over the river. At Riegel in Germany is the brewery that makes Reigler beer - you have to have one as you have your sausage and chips in a little cafe.
Try this as a round trip: Gerardmer, Ribeauville, Marckolsheim, Riegel, Elsbach, Schonwald, Furtwangen, Titisee, Todtnau, Badenweiler, Guebwiller, Gerardmer. 7-odd hours riding, add in two or three hours for meals and a coffee, and I reckon that's as good a day's road riding as you'll get!
Enjoy your trip. When are you going?
Have a play with: http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=224374
Red Rock
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This place was very comfortable and in a good spot.
Lion D'Or at la Petite Pierre
La Petite Pierre - Google Map
(Is there anywhere that Google car hasn't been?!!)
Lion D'Or at la Petite Pierre
La Petite Pierre - Google Map
(Is there anywhere that Google car hasn't been?!!)
craigwildee
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Will be staying at moto hotel de col de bussang can find them at http://www.coldebussang.com
Seems to be a liverly place
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Seems to be a liverly place
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Toddy
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http://www.fischhutte.com/
http://www.fischhutte.com/
Fantastic location, food and standard of accomodation.
Ohh to have an MEP's expenses, you could stay here all year.
http://www.fischhutte.com/
Fantastic location, food and standard of accomodation.
Ohh to have an MEP's expenses, you could stay here all year.
thanks for the replies I will have a look at the suggestions
kennyc
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here's a place I have used several times with good experiences each time
http://www.coldebussang.com/fr/accueil.htm
http://www.coldebussang.com/fr/accueil.htm
Not the one we stayed in.....................opposite the french equivalent of Kwik-Fit
We noticed the French hotels were much more expensive (April/May 2010) in the Vosges, than German Black Forest ones, just 30 miles away across the Rhine
I would stay in Germany and travel over for a ride around the Vosges
swissrob
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We often stop here for lunch and the owners seem a nice couple, good bike parking and the place is quite busy, food was fine also.
kennyc
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Mark claims to have 95% bikers as customers, and is set up with a proper bike shed, beats parking in the old tunnel
and theres a luverly bit off road just around the corner from the hotel, I'm sure you know which one 
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