Hi, Vitalgarten is like a Healtclub. Kathariana >> Could you help me with a translation, please? I do not want to make a >> big mistake. >> I was reading about a hotel, Romantik Hotel Gravenberg, in Langenfeld, >> Westfalen. They described a "Vitalgarten." What is this? > >I dont't know that word. Any advertising slogan for a boring garden. > >> Also they mention a "textilfreie zone." What does this mean? It sounds like >> clothes-free to me. > >Yes. They seem to have a sauna and you are allowed to jump around >naked there. I think it is a concrete hotel outside the town. > >> http://www.gravenberg.de/ >> >> I am looking for places (not too expensive) to stay with my husband and >> grown son(21 years) in Germany in August along the Rhine and ending up >> in Frankfurt. I started out near Koeln looking at hotels. Do you know >> if this is near there? > >Nancy, I don't know much about hotels. I never sleep in a hotel, >I prefer camping holidays. >I would not start the planning of a Germany trip with the hotel. >After my opinion you foremost should plan the route and the cities. >Many German towns - especially in the north - were destroyed in the >war and thereafter been rebuild modern and ugly. Other ones still are >old and beautiful. Don't waste your time on the wrong places. Firstly >buy a traveller's guide and look for beautiful places along the road. >Then choose traditional and unpretending hotels in the center of >little romantic timberwork towns. Perhaps they have no sauna nor a >"Vitalgarten" but you will have more joy in Germany. >A beautiful country to start your Rhineland tour is the region of the >Mosel river. Fly to Luxemburg and from there along the Mosel to >Koblenz, and then up and down the Rhine. > >* Dieter