We already know that you can make individual trips to the VIP car EMUs, which clings to the trains varied repetition of specially selected by you route. Such a pleasant trip across countries and continents without leaving your hotel room bus, offers to make its customers the German travel company. "Rotel" - an abbreviation of rollende hotel - "rolling hotel", who invented and patented a working principle, the entrepreneur George Heltl.
At first, he organized the ordinary bus tours through Europe, during which often were held overnight in tents. During the 1959 project was born, who was named - "Rotel. For the first time on a plan businessman was built Multi-bedroom trailer to the bus and held its first international trips with a comfortable overnight stay at the wheels. Later, the company started using integrated tourist liners with built-in sleeping quarters for all passengers and a similar combination trucks.
Main types of "Roteley: truck with a passenger" cells "and a bunk trailer or bus in the same trailer mikrootelem. For 20-24 guests are hotels, consisting of only one vehicle - a truck with a sleeping compartment or transformed with the bus. Travel company argues that the analogies in the world that experience, travel is still no. Except, of course, a trip to avtokemperah and trailers - cottages that are taking place "private". Close analogy to the journey are the traditional bus tours. But they are tied to fixed routes to hotels, motels and campgrounds on - this "step left, step right" is extremely limited.
Rotelny type of travel is completely free and can give its residents the opportunity to unforgettable nights away from civilization with an acceptable level of comfort. Vehicles move like on the roads, so sometimes off-road use. To overcome the low water crossings are resolved truck company. All mobile hotel - converted buses and trucks are brand Mercedes. The most advanced models of buses here O404 installed on them 24 seats for passengers in the front part and bustroeno 26 beds behind. At the park can arrange all necessary for a pleasant stay away from populated areas as places hvtaet even for tents, chairs, caterers and other things inside the bus under the motto: "All your carried with me!"
; If it is assumed that the road would meet an impressive company, are available and more spacious hotels on wheels. This combination of altered triaxial truck (in his body - only the seats) and a trailer with sleeping compartments. This ligament is calculated on 34 traveler. Another option, as we have said, this flock pair consisting of the traditional tourist bus and a trailer bed, a capacity of 40 tourists plus the driver and guide. The advantage of this scheme is that on arrival at the place of a sleeping trailer, you can leave the camp until the evening "bored", while a single bus to start up on nearby excursions.
Beds in "Rotele" comprise in length, 1.83 meters. Height of the "foam", available to a person, only 0,9 m. The hotel offers single and double rooms, single room has windows with shutters and interior lighting. One pencil case is assigned to an owner for the entire tour. Furthermore, Mexico and China. Incidentally, during the movement in the sleeping compartments no lies, access to the "number" is only open in the parking lot (photo by Rotel Tours).
Himself a bus (or truck) Rotel is equipped with a toilet and folding kitchen. As to the soul, then the routes included occasional stops at the usual camping or cheap hotels (where available). The greater part of the travel conditions of the tour with Rotelem "can be called a Spartan. But it does not matter: it is the philosophy of this project. Travel to "Rotele" is preferred by those who do not need a special comfort, and far more important than a rare opportunity to visit the real outback in various countries, located almost across the globe.
Hotel kitchen offers residents of the hotel for breakfast and dinner. The company tries to buy more products in the host countries, taking into account the national cuisine. For lunch, riding hotel stops at restaurants or other points of public catering, or travelers the opportunity to buy themselves some local edibles. But if anything at this point the route and not nearly there - the kitchen and opens for lunch.
Hotel kitchen offers residents of the hotel for breakfast and dinner. The company tries to buy more products in the host countries, taking into account the national cuisine. For lunch, riding hotel stops at restaurants or other points of public catering, or travelers the opportunity to buy themselves some local edibles. But if anything at this point the route and not nearly there - the kitchen and opens for lunch.
Company representatives emphasized that tend to show tourists the true nature and culture of their country. So the race in a remote little village somewhere in Africa or South America - is quite common. The program allocates enough time for walking around the next mobile camps and sightseeing.
Total, the company has about a hundred routes in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia and South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, North and South America and Latin America. Depending on the remoteness of the country and the complexity of the program of the expedition tour can last from one week to 50 days. The general scheme is almost the same everywhere. Tourists fly an airplane into the original city, where they face hotel on wheels.
Within a few days, he travels the country (or several nearby countries), then returns to the starting point from which customers Of course aircraft are sent back home. Only a short European routes starting at one of German cities, the flight, for obvious reasons is not included. One can imagine that such "classic" trip to another continent in 15 days duration, book hotels and campsites along the "highway", with local transport, hiring guides, guided tours in the most interesting places and to visit various cultural and architectural monuments, with sea and river walks, a double (at least) flight and all related services, nutrition, finally - will result in a considerable sum.
hotel on wheels (and staff) combines many functions at once, and thus saves money. Maybe this is the one of the secrets of the appeal of such motorized turpohoda.22-day journey into the heart of the Sahara for 00 - is not it tempting? A trip through almost all of South America along the Pacific and Atlantic oceans - 34 days for 00 (including flights from Europe and back in economy class)? And nearly two-month expedition around the whole of Australia for thousands, including the flight again from Frankfurt and back?
The "menu" of German companies, there are routes that include a piece of Russia. In general, the land of the Soviet Union wheel Roteley "first set foot in 1964 (photo by Rotel Tours). The "menu" of German companies, there are routes that include a piece of Russia. In general, the land of the Soviet Union wheel Roteley "first set foot in 1964 (photo by Rotel Tours).
Fleet, located in all parts of the world as a whole has more than 3500 beds, in which the total for the year tourists have time to spend 600,000 "person-nights." We can confidently say: the business idea lowly and cheap-traveler, invented in part because of post-war destruction and (relative, of course) of poverty, was remarkably tenacious.