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Arrival, information and accommodation
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From the
gare SNCF
it's a ten-minute walk down avenue de la RA©publique to the
tourist office
on place d'Unterlinden (April-June, Sept & Oct Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun & hols 10am-2pm; July & Aug Mon-Sat 9am-7pm, Sun 9.30am-2pm; Nov-March Mon-Sat 9am-noon & 2-6pm, Sun 10am-2pm; tel 03.89.20.68.92, fax 03.89.41.34.13,
www.ot-colmar.fr
). Besides selling Club Vosgien hiking maps and a booklet of day walks in the hills behind the town, they'll also give you details of the
buses
to the towns and villages of the Route du Vin, which leave from outside the
gare SNCF
.
Bikes
can be rented from La CyclothA©que, 31 route d'Ingersheim (Mon 2-6.30pm, Tues-Sat 8am-noon & 2-6.30pm; tel 03.89.79.14.18), Cycles Geiswiller, 6 bd du Champ de Mars (Tues-Fri 8.30am-noon & 2-6.30pm, Sat 8.30-noon & 2-6pm; tel 03.89.41.30.59), and Cycles Mayer, 6 rue du Pont-Rouge (Tues-Sat 8.30am-noon & 2-6.30pm; tel 03.89.79.12.47).
Accommodation
is not as overpriced as you might expect, with a number of reasonable hotels very close to the
gare SNCF
. Try the quiet and comfortable
HA?tel Colbert
, 2 rue des Trois-A?pis, parallel to av de la RA©publique (tel 03.89.41.31.05, fax 03.89.23.66.75; 220-300F/a?¬34-46), or
La ChaumiA?re
, 74 av de la RA©publique (tel 03.89.41.08.99; 160-220F/a?¬24-34). For more luxury, there's the
Grand HA?tel Bristol
, 7 place de la Gare, directly opposite the station exit (tel 03.89.23.59.59, fax 03.89.23.92.26,
www.grand-hotel-bristol.fr
; 400-500F/a?¬61-76), a relic of the grand old prewar days of tourism, now comfortably refurbished and part of a chain. There are also two
hostels
: the central
Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture
, 17 rue Camille-Schlumberger (tel 03.89.41.26.87, fax 03.89.23.20.16), two streets over from av de la RA©publique; and the HI hostel,
Auberge de Jeunesse Mittelhardt
, at 2 rue Pasteur (tel 03.89.80.57.39, fax 03.89.80.76.16); take bus #4 from the station or rue d'Unterlinden, stop "LycA©e Technique". This place gets very busy in summer with lots of teenagers - unfortunately the rooms are not insulated as in some of the other hostels in France. The nearest
campsite
,
Camping Colmar-Horbourg-Wihr
, is 2km from the centre of town on Route de Neuf-Brisach (tel 03.89.41.15.94; closed Dec & Jan); take bus #1 from the station, direction "Wihr", stop "Plage de l'Ill". Other useful information
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