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What’s new Airlines: Germanwings has
launched two new services from Heathrow to Berlin-Tegel and Hamburg with up to three fl ights daily on each route. In partnership with CityJet, Air France is now fl ying from London City to Dresden and Paderborn six times a week on both routes. In April Aer Lingus introduces a new Dublin to Hanover service. Hotels: Element, Starwood Hotels’
sustainable ‘eco-brand’, makes its European debut with the Element Frankfurt Airport, later this year. The contemporary four-star Hotel i31 has opened in Berlin’s fashionable Mitte district and last month Sofi tel expanded its German portfolio and took over the former Concorde Berlin, renaming the 311-room hotel Sofi tel Berlin Kurfürstendamm. Munich’s Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten
Kempinski has unveiled a 250 sqm. penthouse suite and roof terrace providing a bird’s eye view of the cityscape and Alps. In May the Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa in Baden- Baden, the fl agship property of the Oetker Collection, opens a deluxe fi ve-storey spa in the historic Villa Stephanie adjacent to the hotel. Operators: Shearings (shearings.
com) has a new eight-day all-inclusive ‘Historic Harz & Goslar’ coach tour, taking in World Heritage Sites Goslar
and Quedlinberg, from £619pp. Escorted rail operator Treyn (
railholidays.com) has introduced two new tours for 2014. The eight-day ‘Saxony Castles & Steam’, from £945pp, includes a visit to UNESCO- listed Augustusburg Castle and the seven-day ‘Romantic Rhine Explorer’, leading in at £665pp, covers the entire UNESCO protected Rhine Gorge from Rudesheim to Cologne. Fred.\ (
fredholidays.co.uk), the new operator launched last year by Fred.\ Olsen Travel, is offering themed breaks to commemorate the royal links. A seven-day B&B holiday, including visits to Buckerberg and Marienburg castles, starts from £619pp with fl ights. Events: An exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall runs April to October 2014 at Cecilienhof House, part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin World Heritage Site.
Tourism Talk “Visitors from the UK choose Germany for a variety of different reasons. Value for money features strongly - for example, hotel rates in Germany are better value than Paris, London, Milan and Vienna. Reliable and modern infrastructure is another, plus Germany is convenient and easy to reach and the sights are fascinating and varied.
People go not just for business, but also city breaks, cultural holidays or to simply ‘get away from it all’. To support the UK travel trade, we will be offering a fam trip later in the year and UNESCO will also be supporting major media visits, to raise consumer awareness. A raft of 2014 cultural events provides travel companies with a range of ‘must sees’ for individual consumer trips or packages.” Klaus Lohmann, Director, GNTO UK and Ireland
Where to book it SHEARINGS - 0844 824 6359
A new nine-day ‘Black Forest & Baltic Gems’ all-inclusive itinerary, is priced from £649pp. With April/ August departures, the tour visits UNESCO World Heritage Sites Trier, Lubeck and Wismar and includes return coach travel.
shearings.com LEGER HOLIDAYS - 0844 324 9262 A seven-day tour of the Rhine and Moselle Valleys, starting in Cologne with a tour of the old town and UNESCO-listed Gothic Cathedral, is from £499pp including
coach travel.
leger.co.uk
Clockwise from top left: Lubeck on the Baltic coast Bayreuth Margravial Opera House, , Elbe sandstone massif (Saxon Switzerland),
“Cologne can be reached in little over four and a half hours by train from London, making it the ideal gateway for a
German rail adventure” TONY BYRNE, NATIONAL SALES MANAGER GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS AND TREYN
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