Post by Silly Yak on Feb 12, 2011 10:43:08 GMT
Re: Austrian Tyrol
Posted by Pam, Dorset on 15/8/2009
GF board
Our deal was from Bristol ….It was an Inghams holiday (but half price!)and a meal on the plane was included.I had ordered gf and it arrived for once.
Hotel we had dinner was the Berghof, in Mayrhofen … a few years ago we stayed at the Gansleit Hotel in Soll which was even better for gf - made me cakes and pancakes.
Austria is brilliant for NOT having to have a hire car - excellent public transport run with Germanic efficiency. You can usually get a card which covers the area you're in which gives you access to cable cars, buses, trains and swimming pools. Every village has an outdoor pool.The cards aren't cheap but represent good value as that's all you need.
Innsbruck and Salzburg are both lovely - in fact all Austria is. That's why we weren't worried about a cheap deal - all the holtels, guest houses are just gorgeous and everywhere is spotless. If you like unspoilt beautiful mountain scenery you'll love it.
The language is German, but English is widely spoken and understood.
A popular, filling and tasty gf lunch dish at mountain huttes (ie cleaner and smarter than many restaurants here!) is a fry up of bacon, onion and potatoes topped with a fried egg called, I think, Tyroller grostl (or something like that).You need it after the walking!
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We booked a few weeks ahead through Travelzoo which does all sorts of cheap deals. Other people at our hotel had got the same deal through Lastminute.com. Dinner was in a different hotel as ours didn't do dinner - if you look in brochures this isn't uncommon, we have had it elsewhere.Our star rating was 3* but I would go anywhere in Austria - all hotels, pensions etc look immaculate.I do think it helps if you have evening meal included rather than B&B and eating out as you can educate the chef re gluten free once, not every day!
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Posted by Pam, Dorset on 15/8/2009
GF board
Our deal was from Bristol ….It was an Inghams holiday (but half price!)and a meal on the plane was included.I had ordered gf and it arrived for once.
Hotel we had dinner was the Berghof, in Mayrhofen … a few years ago we stayed at the Gansleit Hotel in Soll which was even better for gf - made me cakes and pancakes.
Austria is brilliant for NOT having to have a hire car - excellent public transport run with Germanic efficiency. You can usually get a card which covers the area you're in which gives you access to cable cars, buses, trains and swimming pools. Every village has an outdoor pool.The cards aren't cheap but represent good value as that's all you need.
Innsbruck and Salzburg are both lovely - in fact all Austria is. That's why we weren't worried about a cheap deal - all the holtels, guest houses are just gorgeous and everywhere is spotless. If you like unspoilt beautiful mountain scenery you'll love it.
The language is German, but English is widely spoken and understood.
A popular, filling and tasty gf lunch dish at mountain huttes (ie cleaner and smarter than many restaurants here!) is a fry up of bacon, onion and potatoes topped with a fried egg called, I think, Tyroller grostl (or something like that).You need it after the walking!
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We booked a few weeks ahead through Travelzoo which does all sorts of cheap deals. Other people at our hotel had got the same deal through Lastminute.com. Dinner was in a different hotel as ours didn't do dinner - if you look in brochures this isn't uncommon, we have had it elsewhere.Our star rating was 3* but I would go anywhere in Austria - all hotels, pensions etc look immaculate.I do think it helps if you have evening meal included rather than B&B and eating out as you can educate the chef re gluten free once, not every day!
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