For children

Germany is a very child friendly country - not gushy like the Latins, but children's existence and needs are taken for granted. Most restaurants have high chairs and a children's menu. Many restaurants and places of interests have children's play areas.

Getting around the area by public transport is easy from Bayerisch Eisenstein, especially using the local Waldbahn trains, which are easy to get on and off with young children and pushchairs. Parents who want to walk in the forest with pushchairs will find plenty of forest roads and cycle paths.

At Haus Sterr, we have cots, high chairs and other baby equipment,

toys for babies as well as older

children, children's DVDs, and a play area in the garden with slide, sandpit and paddling pool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following are some of the things to do in the area with young children:

In Bayerisch Eisenstein, there is an excellent

children's playground in the village park in the

centre of the village.

And on Fridays most weeks of the year there is a horse and cart ride through the forest.

 

 

 

 

 

Swimming: our guests love the Osserbad at Lam and there is also swimming at Zwiesel. Both have indoor and outdoor pools.

Walks from the village: Schwellhaeusl, an old woodcutter's hut in the forest with lake, playground, animals and restaurant, is very popular but takes about 1 hour to walk to and cannot be reached by car. Can be accessed by cycle routes with a pushchair. The walk across the border to Zelezna Ruda is mostly on a cycle route and easily done with a pushchair.

Outings (all within 30 minutes drive of the house):

• Take the gondola to the top of the Arber mountain where there is a children's playground and restaurants.
• At the Grosser Arbersee lake there is a walk around the lake (part difficult with a pushchair), pedaloes, a restaurant and a park with fairy tale figures.
• Regenhuette Animal Museum
• Lohberg Tierpark with animals indigenous to the area and the tourist 'train' the the Kleiner Arbersee Lake
• Zwiesel Toy Museum
• Lam Fairytale and Ghost Castle
• Ludwigsthal - Haus zur Wildnis - wide, flat paths lead past animal enclosures to the Information Centre, with play area and information for children, 3D cinema, shop and cafe
• Joska Crystal at Bodenmais has play areas and activities for children
• Sommerrodelbahns - there are 4 summer toboggan runs in the area, the nearest is at Bodenmais, with cable car and plenty of children's activities
• There are 3 fun parks in the region

• Hohenbogen at Neukirchen bei Heiligen Blut.
• BayernPark at Reisbach (between Dingolfing and Eggenfelden).
• Churpfalz Park, Loifling bei Cham

Winter:

Skiing: children can learn to ski at the Ski Kindergarten from the age of 3.

Tobogganing: there is a toboggan run behind Haus Sterr (toboggans and sliders can be borrowed) as well as a 1km toboggan run on the Arber

Contact us

Bavarian Forest Holidays
Waldschmidtstrasse 1
94252 Bayerisch Eisenstein
Germany
Tel. (Germany) +49 (0)9925 90 32 04 (UK) 07976 403434
Email: pyrabelisk@btinternet.com