Titelblatt Suhl-Italy-Gerlos Tour 2022
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Corvette - tour A Fabulous Corvette Road Trip to BMW Munich & the International European Corvette Convention in Suhl – GERMANY Bolzano - South Tyrol, Sirmione - Lago di Garda, PAGANI Factory & MASERATI Museum - Modena, LAMBORGHINI Factory - Sant’Agata Bolognese, FERRARI Museum - Modena & Maranello, Lido di Jesolo - Adriatic Coast & Venice – ITALY Grossglockner High Alpine Road & “Sports Cars Season Opening” in Gerlos – AUSTRIA June 1st – 20th, 2022 Your specialist for outstanding Corvette Tours in Europe Mandy G. Feicht 2797 First Street, Suite 602 Fort Myers, FL 33916, USA +1-239-333-8899 +49-171-6335542 palm-island-car.tours PALM ISLAND CAR TOURS is registered with the State of Florida as a Seller of Travel, Reg. No. ST41511 [email protected] CORVETTE - Tour to Munich & the International European Corvette Convention in Suhl – GERMANY Bolzano - South Tyrol, Sirmione - Lago Di GarDa, Pagani Factory & Maserati Museum - MoDena, Lamborghini Factory - Sant’Agata Bolognese, Ferrari Museum - MoDena & Maranello, LiDo Di Jesolo - Adriatic Coast & Venice – ITALY Grossglockner High Alpine RoaD, “Sports Cars Season Opening” in Gerlos – AUSTRIA st th June 1 – 20 , 2022 This wonderful 3-week-trip will take us on an exciting Corvette Road-Trip to the “International European Corvette Convention” in Suhl in Germany, through Italy with a visit of factories and museums of all major Italian car manufacturers and to our fabulous “Sports Cars Season Opening” in Gerlos, Austria. You will arrive at Munich Airport, Germany, on Wednesday, June 1st where we will pick you up and bring you to the brand new Luxury “HYPERION Hotel Munich” for your first 2 nights where you can recover from the long flight jetlag. After checking in you can relax in your beautiful panoramic rooms before we pick you up at 6 PM for a nice tram ride to Munich Downtown where we will have dinner at the world-famous one and only original “Hofbräuhaus”. On Thursday, June 2nd the Corvettes will be brought to the hotel garage and in the early afternoon we will have an interesting visit at BMW World and Museum and a great sightseeing tour through Munich Old Town and surroundings. On Friday, June 3rd, after a relaxing breakfast at around 10 AM we will “saddle our horses” and drive 340 km on the German Autobahn A9 and A73 to one of the most historical areas in Germany – to Thuringia in former East Germany – where we will be part of the International European Corvette Convention for the next 3 days. The “Ringberg Hotel” – where we will stay for the next 3 nights – is a historical landmark and contemporary witness on the Suhler montain peak summit – built 1974 to 1979 and opened in 1979 - and the former holiday home of Erich Honecker - the leader of the German Democratic Republic (DDR/East Germany) – and his family and government. Originally it was built for farmers of the DDR, who had to wait four years for a holiday spot at the Ringberg Hotel. The route from „VdgB-Ferienheim“ (holiday home for the association of mutual agricultural aid) to today's hotel was not always easy. Last year the largest house in the middle of the Thuringian Forest celebrated its 40th anniversary. We will arrive at the Ringberg Hotel in the late afternoon where we check in and get our roadbook with all instructions for the next 3 days. There will be around 300 Corvettes from all over Europe participating in this one-of-a-kind event. At 7 pm we all will have dinner together at the Herbert Roth Saal where we are warmly welcomed by the organizers Gisela and Helmut from the TCV – the Thuringian Corvette Club – everything will also be translated in English for the guests from all over the world. The evening will be either spent at the numerous nightly parking lot parties or at the lobby with dance and live music or at the bar. Be sure to bring a folding chair – it’ll be needed J On Saturday, June 4th, after a mostly short night.... ;-) and a great breakfast we’ll meet at 10 AM at the parking lot where we start in groups of 20 – 25 cars to one of the larger cities like Erfurt, Weimar, Jena or Coburg – nobody knows in advance where they will lead us – it’s always a nice surprise to which city we go and where we will park our Corvettes - in the middle of the market place or the center of Downtown. As soon as all the groups have arrived and all the cars are parked we have time for sightseeing, shopping, walking around with our Corvette friends, have some coffee and cake or ice cream in one of the many Cafés or have lunch and/or a drink at a restaurant. In the afternoon at around 3.30 PM we delightfully cruise back to our hotel on the incredible wide and empty streets of the Thuringian Forest with our Vettes J Back at the Ringberg Hotel we enjoy again the nice beergarden with drinks and their famous “Thuringian Bratwurst” and have a lot of fun with our friends talking and drinking and laughing and and ..... For dinner we will enjoy a nice buffet together with all the other 500+ Corvette friends. After dinner we will do the same as the day before – Party Party Party !!!!! On Sunday, June 5th, after a rich breakfast we all meet again at the parking lot where we once again start in groups of 20 – 25 cars. Our way leads us to a special destination such as a medieval fortress, a military base, a historical monument or castle, US Army barracks o.s. After this exciting, informative and interesting day we return to the Ringberg Hotel a little earlier than Saturday because mostly a nice surprise - as two years ago the visit of Callaway Competition with team and driver and their racecars of the ADAC GT Masters races – awaits us – as well as a large crowd of people for the Country-Festival. Since it is the last evening of this great event we either enjoy a romantic country barbecue or a nice Farewell dinner. On Monday, June 6th, we will enjoy a long cozy breakfast together with all other Corvette friends from all over the World before we check out, say Good-Bye and head back to Munich. On our long way back to Munich we will stop somewhere nice for a little lunch break. After our arrival in Munich we will move in to the “Best Western Plus Hotel ERB”, where we wait for the new participants to arrive the next day for the following 2 weeks. Until it’s time to go for dinner you can relax and or enjoy a drink at the hotel bar after the long drive. We will have our evening dinner in the hotel owned Restaurant “Almgrill. On Tuesday, June 7th you can enjoy the hotel owned spa area “Almdorf SPA” and relax in 5 different saunas and the steam bath or go shopping at the many outlet stores of “Parsdorf City” in walking distance from the hotel, while we will pick up the newly arrived participants at Munich Airport and bring them to Hotel ERB. On Wednesday, June 8th we will leave “Hotel ERB” at 10 AM. We will drive a short distance on the German Autobahn A99 / A8 to exit Holzkirchen and then ride the nice country roads (100 km) along the beautiful Lake and Village Tegernsee to Lake Achensee, where we will enjoy a nice lunch break around noon in the nicely located Restaurant “Bergkristall” on their beautiful terrace overlooking the lake and the mountains. After lunch we drive 170 km on country roads and/or Austrian and Italian highways to Bolzano in South Tyrol, Italy. Bolzano (Italian) or Bozen (German) is the capital city of South Tyrol, the German speaking region in the northern part of Italy. Bolzano is the largest city in the region. Its archaeology museum is famous worldwide as the home of the alpine iceman "Ötzi". It is also known as the Italian Capital of Christmas thanks to its characteristic Christmas market. Bolzano's population is around 100,000 (140,000 including the metropolitan area). 25% of inhabitants speak German as their mother tongue, which is much higher in the non-urban parts of the province (up to more than 90% in some areas), making the city and province officially bilingual. Together with Innsbruck, Bolzano is officially the capital of the Alps because the seat of the Alpine Convention is there. The world-famous Museum of Archaeology with the Iceman and the Messner Mountain Museum's main seat make Bolzano a world city of mountaineering history and culture. We will check in to the wonderful Downtown “Parkhotel Laurin” in the center of the beautiful lively city Bolzano in Alto Adige, where we also will have dinner together in the nice restaurant of our hotel. But before dinner there’ll be enough time to walk through beautiful downtown Bolzano and maybe have a “gelato” or espresso at Walter’s place. On Thursday, June 9th, after a relaxed breakfast we will drive south to Lake Garda on the Autostrada A 22 where we exit Rovereto South to Riva del Garda and drive the breathtaking scenic Gardesana road along Lake Garda to Sirmione. On our wonderful curvy ride along the lake we will stop at the hip bar and gelateria “Barino 2.0” for a little relaxing waterfront lunch or coffee and ice cream break. After this nice stop we will follow the lake through the little romantic fisher villages Torri del Benaco, Garda, Lazise, Bardolino and Peschiera del Garda to lovely peninsula village Sirmione with its historical “Castello Scagliero”.