# Wachau Touristik Bernhardt

Hire en Spitz

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/companies/wachau-touristik-bernhardt

Taxi and bike hire company in the Wachau, with points on the Bahnhofstraße in Spitz and the Pionierstraße in Melk. It rents city, trekking, mountain and electric bikes for the Donauradweg.

## Who they are

W-T Bernhardt GmbH, which trades as Wachau Touristik Bernhardt, is a company in Spitz an der Donau with two businesses: taxi and bike hire. As a taxi it does transfers to Vienna-Schwechat airport, journeys home after a party, errands and medical visits, and also takes children to school and delivers parcels or medicines. For the traveller, what is useful is that the same taxi can take you back to the starting point if you have done half the Wachau by bike and don't fancy retracing your route. The website does not say since when the company has existed or who runs it.

## The bikes and where to collect them

It hires city, trekking and mountain bikes, in all sizes and freshly serviced, according to the company. It also has electric bikes of city, trekking and mountain types, with a motor that switches on when needed. There are children's bikes and child seats, which are requested on the booking form. They are designed for the Donauradweg, the Danube cycle route, which in the Wachau runs almost flat beside the river, and for the paths between vineyards, which have more hills.

It has two collection points:

Spitz: Bahnhofstraße 6, next to the railway station.

Melk: Pionierstraße 2, near the Danube landing stage. It has its own mobile, +43 664 2222 070.

You can hire in Spitz and return in Krems or Melk. This makes it easy to do the Wachau stretch in one direction and come back by train, boat or the taxi itself.

## Prices and booking

The company publishes prices for electric bikes: from €38 a day for the city or trekking electric and €40 for the mountain one. The price is per calendar day, not per 24 hours, so it is best to collect it early. The website does not publish prices for ordinary bikes nor whether the helmet or child seat is charged separately.

Booking is through the website form, where you give the dates, times, collection and return point, the number of adult and child bikes and the type of each. You can also call +43 2713 2222 or write to office@wachau-touristik.at. In high season it is better not to turn up without a booking.

## What they don't publish

The website gives no opening hours or season dates. Nor does it say what deposit or document is needed, whether a lock or panniers are included, or what the cancellation conditions are. It is worth asking about all that when booking. The website is in German only. For those who don't speak it, the most practical thing is to write a simple email in English with the dates and the number of bikes.

## What they run

- [Danube cycle path from Melk to Krems](https://www.geocalia.com/en/austria/lower-austria/wachau/things-to-do/danube-cycle-path), in Wachau. Bike and e-bike hire in Melk or Spitz. Cycling season. City, trekking, mountain and electric bikes. If you ask, e-bikes hired in Melk can be returned in Krems or Spitz. The website does not publish prices

Independent companies: you book with them, on their terms. Prices are as they publish them and may change.

## Practical details

- Phone: +43 2713 2222

## Contact

- Web: https://www.wachau-touristik.at/
- Coordenadas: 48.366, 15.415