Additional Route Length Information 69 13 The Lahn Valley Tour Date 13.04.21 - 25.04.21 Cut-off Date: 15.02.2021 CHARACTERISTICS/IDEA BEHIND THIS TOUR: + good for working people, not too long + short stages Driving Stages: You may drive all stages MONEY MATTERS + time available for individual activities: by yourselves. The tour leader offers to go cycling, golf, geocaching with him/her. Tour Price: 790,- e per person Originally planned as a post-Corona trip, with the own car + caravan or camper when this trip appeals to people who don't want to Road Conditions & Traffic: The roads two persons travel in one vehicle Additional travel far but appreciate being together. in Germany are good. Most of the pitches are charge for a single driver 10% near bodies of water where it gets humid and cooler at night. Fuel: Find the German fuel prices at: PREPARATION: www.clever-tanken.de Travel documents*: Passport or ID- Overnight Places: The overnights are Card, national driving license set at regular campsites of local standard. Additional costs/travel funds: Plan your own individual cost of living and CB-radio: not required Supplies: Electricity, water and grey water around € 2 per person / day for tips. Possi- disposal are available daily. bly you can still consider a small buffer for Car Insurance: Germany is part of the souvenirs, breakdowns, visits to the doctor green card system. Safety & Security: In the Tourist centres ... But there are EC machines everywhere. please watch out for pickpockets. Also plan a little buffer for souvenirs, mis- Vaccinations: None are compulsory haps, doctor etc. More information at www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk Mobility Rating: 2 See catalogue “Your Journey with Mir Tours” You will be able to pay with debit or credit Pets: require a pet passport point 7). The required degree of mobility card at almost all petrol stations, souvenir usually only relates to some programmes shops and supermarkets. Pre-Tour Meeting: No prior meeting is and segments of the sightseeing. If your planned for this trip. You will receive a par- walking is not that great, you may still join Money Exchange: without problems ticipant’s package by post approx. 5 weeks this trip. To do this, you would skip one or ATM machines are available for use of your before the start of your tour. We also offer the other programme item or shorten it. We debit or credit card. would be happy to discuss the trip with you an online appointment where you can get to know fellow travellers and clarify questions in this regard. In case you use a tool such All this information is subject to change and is meant for that arose while studying the participant as a rollator or travel wheelchair, please this route as part of a group tour. There might be diffe- rences if you book an individual tour to these countries. documents. note that these may also have to be lifted into the means of transport. * The information about visa and travel documents is considering that your passport is issued in a Schengen TOUR LOGISTICS: state, by Switzerland or a country that belongs to both Climate & Clothing: Pack something for the EU and the Schengen area. For the other countries Meeting Point: Official meeting point for all weathers. Rain jackets and hiking gear we will inform your individually. tour start is in Bad Ems. shouldn't be missing.Some pitches are near bodies of water, where it gets damp and Tour Leader: Your tour leader informs re- cooler at night. gularly about driving stages and daily pro- grammes. (c) MIR Tours & Services GmbH Hauptstraße 10 D-56291 Birkheim Tel: 06746-80280 www.mir-tours.de Entry fees for included programme: The During the online participant meeting you MANDATORY INFORMATION tour price includes the normal entry fees for can get to know other fellow travellers and Cut-off Date: 15.02.2021 the sights we have put in the programme. clarify all open questions about the trip. On this date we have to decide if sufficient Should there be additional parts (special ex- participants to run this tour have been rea- hibitions) that are not of interest for Information Material: We create a informa- ched. Ideally, you should have booked by everyone they might be at your leisure. Ex- tion booklet for this tour. This informs about this point. ample: We visit the Kremlin as part of the all relevant topics from equipment to cus- Moscow sightseeing and we pay the entry toms. Forms, brochures, booklets about si- Booking Closes: 06.04.2021 ticket. Should you opt to see the tsars’ wea- tes and stages are added by us. Also, you Should you be unable to book earlier, this is pon chamber you pay this out of you own receive GPS waypoints and map material the last day that booking is possible under purse. so all participants have the same opportuni- the condition that you bring your documents ties. in time and the required number of partici- The German and English-speaking tour pants has been reached at the cut-off date. leader will meet you in the afternoon of the USEFUL INFORMATION: first day in Bad Ems and will accompany Payments due: upon booking 10% you until Day 13. His tasks are: When putting this trip together, we are still Final payment due by 14.03.2021 - to inform you regularly about overnight in the situation that the SARS-Covid19 pan- places, meals, stage, fuelling, shopping demic is affecting our lives and travels. Cancellation fee: in percentage of tour and Please note our general information on this price; is dependent on the time left to the leisure options. topic in the travel catalogue, as well as our tour start. - offer to join him on the driving stages. Corona promise. as of booking = 10% - give you support in case of mishaps like day 54. - 30. before tour start = 20% illness or vehicle break-downs The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from day 29. - 10. before tour start = 30% the EU and the only recently concluded con- from day 9. before tour start = 75% The resignation (travel cancellation) insu- tracts for future cooperation may result in rance is covering if you cannot go on tour changes to the travel documents required. GENERAL SERVICES: due to a insured reason. The break-off (tra- Please also note that there is a special in- vel curtailment) insurance refunds the part formation available for customers from the Organization & Booking: We order the in- of the tour price that you did not partake in UK. cluded programmes for your and book the due to an insured reason. More details on overnight places. For us – as a registered insured reasons can be found in the annex. tour operator – the compliance with travel law is obligatory. I TINERARY: Day 1 13.04.2021 waldbahn, one of the steepest funiculars Day 4 16.04.2021 Bad Ems in the world, to the Bismarck Height and Limburg If you arrive early, you may get your bike enjoy both the view and the atmosphere The first thing to do today is a little tour out and explore the Lahn cycle path or in the brewery. A leisurely stroll brings us of the old town, during which we will get go on a hike to the Limes, the local equi- back to the health resort for a stroll or to to know the “Limburger Säcker”. You can valent of Hadrian’s Wall. A visit to the our vehicles. get this little apple crumble cake in the modern thermal baths also offers some- camping fee, transfer, local guide, train, drinks oldest café in town. Well strengthened, thing good for the body. In the late after- we make our way to Limburg Cathedral noon, all participants come together to to visit this and the adjoining Diocesan Day 3 15.04.2021 start the journey. In a small meeting, Museum. We also take a look at the sin- Bad Ems - Limburg some questions about the tour logistics fully expensive, but architecturally im- After a 15km drive you will reach Nassau will be clarified. The day ends with a din- pressive bishop's house with the modern an der Lahn. We will hear again and ner in a nearby restaurant. chapel. The rest of the day is then at again about the ruling house Nassau, camping fee, dinner your leisure. whose headquarters have been preser- ved as a ruin only a few kilometres away. camping fee, local guide, entrance fee, snack Day 2 14.04.2021 Nassau is also the birthplace of the Bad Ems Prussian reformer vom und zum Stein Day 5 17.04.2021 We go into town not too early, to meet and the name comes across everyw- Limburg - v - Weilburg the local guide. The pretty Bad Ems ho- here. Those who are not interested in old Also, a short stage and again there are pes to be recognized as a UNESCO stories could find happiness at the Leif- a few stops on the way. On the one hand World Heritage Site and has dressed up heit / Söhnle factory outlet. The house- there is the Selterswassermuseum in properly. During the tour, we hear about hold items company was founded here Selters / Taunus and on the other hand how emperors, kings and tsars used to over 30 years ago. In the course of the the Kubach crystal cave just before Weil- cure. We see the bathing castle, the afternoon, we all arrive in the cathedral burg. Again, we set up camp for two fountain hall, the Emser water crane and city of Limburg.