I'm just booking up for a visit to Bamberg over August bank
holiday/early Sept.

Cheap flight to Cologne, then train down to Bamberg gets me there for
5:30 PM on Saturday.

Some questions about hotels/guest houses in Bamberg...

* Brewery/guest houses. Any pros/cons to staying here? Can it be noisy?
Do brewery guests get cheaper beer or "after hours" service?

* The online booking web sites (hrs.de, bookings.de) only feature
"proper" hotels -- not brewery/guest houses. http://www.bierstadt.de/
has some links but they are invariably in German. Any English booking
sites?

Thanks
Bruce

bruce_phipps@my-deja.com wrote:


> I'm just booking up for a visit to Bamberg over August bank
> holiday/early Sept.
> 
> Cheap flight to Cologne, then train down to Bamberg gets me there for
> 5:30 PM on Saturday.
> 
> Some questions about hotels/guest houses in Bamberg...
> 
> * Brewery/guest houses. Any pros/cons to staying here? Can it be noisy?
> Do brewery guests get cheaper beer or "after hours" service?


Very few cons - mostly pros.  The rooms at Fssla are above the
pub, but weren't particularly noisy, and street noise isn't too bad
after the sun goes down.  Pretty much the same holds for the Spezial
across the street.  The Alt-Ringlein, in the old town centre and close
to the Schlenkerla, housed a brewery a long time ago, but now serves
Schlenkerla in its pub, and is in a noisier location, close to
quite a few pubs and other diversions.


> * The online booking web sites (hrs.de, bookings.de) only feature
> "proper" hotels -- not brewery/guest houses. http://www.bierstadt.de/
> has some links but they are invariably in German. Any English booking
> sites?


The hrs.de site will work in English too, and the Altenburgblick,
while a bit away from the centre, is in fact affiliated with the
Greifenklau brewery & pub.  For the brewery guesthouses, though,
there are no English booking sites.  You can ring the Fssla or
Spezial and see if you get lucky and find someone who speaks
English to help with booking your room, but that's about as lucky
as you'll get.

Then again, if you're going in August, a "proper" hotel might be
the way to go ... the rooms can get rather stuffy if the weather
warms up, and a "proper" hotel might have air conditioning.
-- 
dgs
"What, and join in your mad squid kettle games?" -- Lew Bryson