"Bei Beichert's"
Familie Rüdiger Beichert
Oberstraße 13
35789 Weilmünster-Laubuseschbach
Tel - 6475/8207 ~ Fax - 6475/912577
Mobil - 0171/6815587
Email - M.Nickel-Beichert@t-online.de or Beichert@t-online.de
Next, we headed west toward (but not to) the Rhine area.
Our FeWo here was another winner, and priced at just €30 a night. It had cupboards full of platinum-banded crystal,
an Espresso machine, electric egg cooker, and a ton of other kitchen gadgets. Not only had our hostess stocked
the fridge with bottles of mineral water, Coke, and Limonade, but she also brought us a plate with four delectable
slices of cake to enjoy on our first night there. Another winner in our book.
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Sunny living room with cable TV, CD player,
DVD player, AM/FM radio, and a basket full of brochures about local places of interest.
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Schloss am Maiberg
Dagmar Ohly
Im Hafergarten 48
61239 Ober-Mörlen
Tel - 6002/1400 ~ Fax - 6002/1403
Email - dagmar.ohly@t-online.de
Our last FeWo was the funniest. I really had to search
to find this one, and they don’t really have a web-site, but I sent an email to Dagmar (the owner) and she emailed
me a picture. It is called “Schloss am Maiberg,” the “Castle on May Hill,” and looked pretty grand in the photos.
It sat up on the side of a steep hill, cost €32.50 a day, and was the least attractive of all the wonderful places
we stayed in. However, it was comfortable enough and we enjoyed our nights there. Dagmar seems to bear the entire
responsibility for operating this place, although her husband appeared at our car as we were unloading our luggage
and asked if we could pay him then and there. I did give him the envelope with the "rent money" we had
set aside, and he thanked me, but I must say this is the first time ever that we have been asked to pay before
we even moved inside. Dagmar picked up two of our suitcases and hauled them down the steps to our FeWo, and the
next day she was out there nailing together a kind of jerry-built railing to accommodate us two elderly folk. She
was a hard worker, and her husband might be, too--but she was the one who was hustling luggage and building stair
rails and doing just about everything else.
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Our living room in the "Castle on
May Hill." No heat in the radiators, but plenty of warm fleece blankets were available.
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Dagmar's hand-built railing, constructed
to keep us from falling down the steps.
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~ Departure Hotel near Frankfurt Airport ~
34 rooms with toilet/shower, minibar, cable-TV, desk, phone,
some with balcony, wireless internet access. Shuttle service from/to the airport for a fee. Parking (fee required),
Restaurant, Bar, 24-hour Front Desk, Newspapers, Breakfast Buffet, Room Service, Laundry, Dry Cleaning, Ironing
Service, Internet Services, Currency Exchange, Car Rental
We drove to Kelsterbach the day before our return home, checked into the hotel, which was €65 a night, and turned
our car in to AVIS. The AVIS people drove us back to our hotel, which was nearby. It was very nice, and definitely
NOT expensive, considering the convenience of being near the airport.
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We had our final German beers and the
last Schnitzel dinner at this restaurant, just a few steps across the street from the hotel.
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The hotel offered a buffet breakfast, which we didn't
want (too early in the day) and it had a nice little bar. Our room had a mini-bar, TV, shower, and featherbeds
in crisp white duvets. They took us to the airport the next morning for €10—a bargain for two people, and a heck
of a lot cheaper than the taxi fare at the beginning of our trip. In fact, the young hotel manager, who drove the
shuttle, jumped out at the departures area, ran and got a luggage cart, loaded all our bags on it, and gave us
a nice farewell handshake. We would recommend this hotel for anyone who is on a budget.
