Rudesheim am Rhein Travel Blogs

We arrived in Rudesheim around 12:15 and went right to the boat depot to buy our tickets for the ferry back up to Koblenz.  Our goal was the 14:30 ferry.  When we got to the KD-Ferry desk, we found out that the 14:30 was either not running or sold out, so we had to buy tickets for the 14:…

First stop was Rudesheim - another of the places we have visited with some regularity on our trips around Germany. Although relatively early it was already starting to build up a steady throng of tourists as the coach parties and boat trips started to offload their hordes. As this was only t…

Beautiful! We drove alongside the Rhine and there were castles after castles after castles! Be sure to stop by Burg Rhein Stein. It's on the west side of the river, between Koblenz and Bingen. It was my favorite out of all of them, and once you get in you're free to roam up and down towers, in and …

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We skip the expensive hotel breakfast, check out, and then head into the city at the early hour of 9:00am. We eat a nice breakfast at a Kaufhaus in the city, which is a well-known department store and they usually have restaurants in them. Es schmeckt gut! After breakfast, we went down to Main Stre…

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Rudesheim seems to be generally loathed by many Germans - and indeed the whole place screams ‘tourist trap’ with it’s narrow streets overflowing with bars and gift shops. The place is usually swarming with coach loads of visitors - usually pensioners so if it’s a quiet rural town …

We're returning to the UK today, but our flight is late enough for us to fit in a full day trip to Rüdesheim, a town situated on the River Rhein. This is one of the areas where some of the German wine comes from and you can't miss all the vine being grown on the way there.At first Rüdesheim seeme…