If you’d like to experience the Rennsteig in an unhurried yet immersive way, this holiday offers the ideal blend of walking in the Thuringian Forest, comfort and hospitality. Your base is the Landhotel Thüringer Hof in Floh-Seligenthal, from where, over three varied walking days, you’ll explore the loveliest sections around Inselsberg, Oberhof and Tambach-Dietharz. The Rennsteig is regarded as one of Germany’s oldest and best-known high-level trails, delighting walkers with quiet forests, far-reaching views and natural paths through one of the country’s favourite walking regions.

This 5-day holiday is made for anyone who appreciates an active break with a single hotel base. You spend 4 nights in a comfort room and enjoy a generous breakfast buffet each day with produce from local farms, a packed lunch to take with you, and in the evening a 4-course gourmet dinner. There’s also a well-thought-out walking service with route advice, travel documents, the latest weather report, and free loan of rucksacks, telescopic walking poles, water bottles and sit mats. A sauna, heated garden pool and drying room also help turn walking into true relaxation.

The itinerary blends activity and indulgence in a particularly pleasant way: after arrival there’s time for first impressions in Floh-Seligenthal or an outing to Schmalkalden. Then come three walking days with beautiful stages on the Rennsteig. You walk from Inselsberg to Neuen Ausspanne, enjoy a varied walk from Oberhof, and after a morning transfer explore the forests around Tambach-Dietharz. There are also shorter options for each walking day, so you can adapt the holiday to your fitness and how you feel on the day. Rail travellers are taken with their luggage to Schmalkalden station on departure.

This walking holiday on the Rennsteig is ideal if you want to experience the Thuringian Forest actively and not have to change hotel every day. Walking the Rennsteig in comfort, good food and warm hosts make this holiday a restorative break with an indulgent touch.