Alte Innbrucke Neuhaus am Inn

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Finkenweg 7, Germany, Europe

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Hotel Alte Innbrucke Neuhaus am Inn

by Wasatch

heber ctity, Utah

October 12, 2009

Best of IgoUgo The hotel ‘old Inn bridge’ is a very modern hotel and restaurant complex. The restaurant and reception are in the building on the main road through Neuhaus am Inn near the bridge to Scharding. You can walk or drive from that building to the hotel ...Read more The hotel ‘old Inn bridge’ is a very modern hotel and restaurant complex. The restaurant and reception are in the building on the main road through Neuhaus am Inn near the bridge to Scharding. You can walk or drive from that building to the hotel building overlooking a grassy field, perhaps a park, with a view of Scharding across the River Inn.

This is pretty much the boonies, so consider a couple reasons for staying here. Passau and Scharding, both well worth a visit, are close by and the Alte Innbrucke is a spectacular bargain, at least in mid-September.

The architecture and room furnishings at the hotel are modern. The very spacious room had a couch with two decent throw pillows, an easy chair, a desk chair, two single beds, TV, a small kitchen, lots of storage space, and a fairly spacious bathroom with a tub/shower combination. A balcony had two chairs and little table. Lighting was adequate. The curtains were not very good at darkening the room, but that was accomplished with my two sheets of black plastic and by closing the exterior shutters(shutters on European hotels usually close, they are not just for decoration). On the other hand, this was the only place I stayed that did not have a Kleenex box in the room.

The bed was comfortable and there was little noise from either inside the hotel or from the exterior.

The room price of 35 Eros, about $52.00, included breakfast, the norm for hotels in Germany and Austria. The breakfast room is in the bottom of the hotel building (lunch, dinner, and beer garden in the other building). Breakfast, included in the room price, was a typical Teutonic buffet– cereal, juices, breads, cold cuts, cheese, fruit, yogurt, and cooked to order egg– Note: ordering an egg for breakfast in Germany and Austria means a soft boiled egg. Some restaurants put a basket of cooked eggs on the buffet table. These are often overdone, with a more or less solidified yolk. The better option is, like at the Alte Innbrucke, to cook the egg when you order it and bring it staged to the table (one hotel where I stayed had a boiling pan of water on the buffet with uncooked eggs beside it– cook your own to the state you prefer).

The cold cuts served were typically two types of salami or salmi and bologna and ham. The best of the breakfasts offered both boiled ham and country cured ham or speck, an Austrian delicacy somewhere between country cured ham and bacon.

A note on the workings of European, at least German and Austrian, hotel windows and balcony doors. You will see a large door handle in the middle of one side of the frame. Turned so it points down locks the window/door. Turned so it points to the side, toward three o’clock, opens the window/door like a door opens. Turned straight up opens the window/door downward from the top of the frame for a short distance.

The bottom line– the Alte Innbrucke is worth a detour if you need a place to stay anywhere around Passau.

The web site for the Alte Innbrucke says it is a 10 minute walk from the old own square in Scharding. I drove. I should have walked. While I think it could be driven in 15-20 minutes, it took a half an hour because I wanted to enter the square from the south, where the old city gate still stands. The thing to see in Scharding is the old town, especially the town square, contained within the old town walls. There are only few very narrow streets, with passages so narrow in places that only one car a time can pass. When you drive over the bridge, the last block going uphill to the town gate entry to the square becomes a one-way road in the direction you can’t go. To get around this barrier requires a very circuitous trip.

Scharding’s old town square is a gem, a huge opening surrounded by colorful ancient houses. Although Scharding is not listed in the Michelin Guide, I found it far more attractive that the similar town square in Obernberg am Inn, just a few miles away, which Michelin recommends. There are a few restaurants, none with compelling menus, just standard restaurant fare, so I went back to the hotel for dinner.

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