Alsace, France, Vosges Mountains – Maxi-METHS
meet – 15th – 19th September 2025
Dates: Pitch up Monday 15th September, depart
Friday 19th September, i.e. 4 nights
Location: The Vosges range, Alsace, France
There is good hiking
near Munster, notably 2-3 summits around 1200-1450 metres high and plenty of
opportunities for low level walks, including in the
vineyards. And a lot of interesting
places, scenery, wine testing possibilities, etc.
Accommodation: Three star Grand Hotel (also known as the
Brit Hotel), 1 Rue de la Gare, 68140 Munster, France,
https://munster.brithotel.fr
It will be excellent for our
purposes and seems to be quite popular.
It has a small outside swimming pool and parking for about 20 cars,
otherwise on streets just outside. It is
a 4-5 minute walk from the railway station and 5-10 minutes from the town
centre.
Munster is in the Fecht valley some 20 km west of the centre of Colmar.
Munster should not to be confused with Münster in
Germany, nor with Munster cheese (a soft cheese manufactured in several areas
in north-eastern France).
Prices:
Bed & breakfast EUR 52,- per
person per night,
Half-board EUR 72,-
per person per night.
There is also a small tourist
tax (EUR 1,76 /p/n).
There are double, single rooms, or family rooms.
Access:
Nearest
airport EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, in
France just north of Basle.
By train,
various possibilities. There is a small branch line running up the Fecht valley to Munster and a bit beyond. The train
connection to Colmar only runs every 2 hours each way and takes about 25
minutes.
By car, across
the north of France, or through Belgium and Germany, longer but no motorway
tolls.
Booking:
16 members showed
interest in reply to my email of October 25th and a few said they would not be
able to come. I reserved 7-8 rooms in
the hotel which will be held for us until further notice. I told them that I would ask you to book
during January (2025), or earlier, but not before Christmas, and pay the 30%
deposit before the end of that month.
To book, you cannot use the hotel website given
above; you will find that they are fully booked for the whole of
September! So you must do this by email
directly to contact@grand-hotel-munster.fr
. They can cope with English,
but you should mention “Groupe Roschnik”
in your mail (the word METHS will mean nothing to them, at least not yet).
They should then confirm and give their bank details. I will have given them the list of 16 names
of those “interested” plus Sally and myself.
If any other METHS members decide to join us, kindly let me know, so I
can inform the hotel of the additional names.
On the other hand, if any of you are no longer interested or have to
cancel for whatever reason, please let me know as well. Rupert Roschnik
Since the
half-board will be a set meal, probably with a couple of choices, e.g.
vegetarian option (but we did not check this), I suggest you request two nights
room only and two nights half-board.
This will allow à la carte choices, e.g. fondue, or going to another
restaurant in town, for the other two evenings, the actual dates to be decided
later..