Although Germany offers a wide choice of accommodations, we suggest to make a reservation in advance.
Besides of summer holiday time, when every town can expect plenty of visitors especially in Southern part of the country, there are numerous occasions like local festivals in small town or Fair ( Messe ) in cities like Stuttgart or Munich, when all hotel rooms are fully booked.
Few years ago the author was not able to find a single room in Berlin, during the very day of German soccer Premiere league Finals.
The hotels called also Gasthause or Gasthof quite often place in visible place the label ‘Zimmer Frei’ meaning ‘Free Rooms’.
The hotels without restaurant often serve breakfast in the room.
The hotel reservation
we are going to offer the possibility to choose between the most of popular hotels in Germany.
More possibilities are given below:
Castle Hotels
the hotels in historical buildings are incorporated into the network ‘Gast Im Schloss’ ( phone 06127 999098 )
with the web site www.gast-im-schloss.de
Family hotels
There are two networks of family hotels, where the service takes care for the children:
www.familotel.de
www.landidyll.de
Camping
there are more than 2200 camping places open from May to October. Among them around 400 are open the whole year round.
Deutscher Camping Club www.camping-club.de
ADAC www.adac.de
Hostels
The official organisation is called Deutsches Jugendherbergswerk with phone 05231 74010 and web site www.dhj.de
The independent hostels can be found at www.hostel-list.de .
Agrotourism
popular especially in Southern Germany, 900 farms advertise at www.landtourismus.de mantained by agriculture society DLG.
‘Urlaub Im Winzer’ is another opportunity to spend the vacations on the countryside, this time in wineyards.
The wine holidays are offered at www.bauernhofurlaub-deutschland.de .
House rental
the rental of a house or a flat for a short time is a popular practice in Germany.
The summer offers are at www.ferienwohnungen.de
and www.homecompany.de
Rooms to rent
It is easy to find the ‘Zimmer’ room for the night in small towns and villages. The bigger towns and the cities are served by the agencies called Mitwohnzentrale.
Some offers are to be found at for example www.gastgeber.de .