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AC Owners Club Forum => ACOC News and Events => Topic started by: AKL 1333 on May 10, 2019, 13:26:57
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Hello to all interested club members,
just receive the new Action with my announcements for the AC International 2020, sorry to everybody but there is one mistake for the calculation for the additional costs for DAY 0, the optional evening in Cologne, the more or less calculated costs for dinner/drinks/guiding for this evening are 50-60 Euro per person and not (150-160), the planning is for a brewery and not for a michelin starred restaurant.
Sorry and warm greetings from Cologne
Jürgen
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A touch of Cologne and the romantic rhine
The ACOC International 2020
(4),5.8.2020 – 9.8.2020 Rheinhotel Dreesen, Bonn,
German Capital 1949-1990
and Entrance to the Middle Rhine Valley
Unesco world heritage
Day 0: (optional day): Tuesday 4th of Aug. 2020 arrival in Cologne around
3 p.m. at the easy to reach (just 3 turns from the Autobahn) 4* Marriott Hotel
near the cathedral Single/double room incl. breakfast is 105/125 Euro parking around 30 Euro Programm including dinner/drinks/guiding around 50-60 Euro per person
Special guiding along the cathedral roof (if available) and a cosy evening in a Cologne brewery
Next morning touring through the Bergisch (Mountain) Land and the Sieg Valley, possibility to visit the last home of Konrad Adenauer at the Rhine opposite the Rheinhotel Dreesen
Lunch at a nearby restaurant incl. save parking during the visit of the house lunch/guiding around
30 Euro per person, carferry to the Hotel Dreesen
Day 1: Wednesday 5th of Aug. 2020 official start of the International
arrival in the afternoon at Rheinhotel Dreesen,
Private opening dinner in the hotel
Day 2: Thursday 6th of Aug. 2020 touring the Ahr Valley with visit of the most secret
German place during the cold war Lunch at the Rhine in the city of Remagen and touring the Wied Valley Social evening at Rolandsbogen high above the Rhine (bus transfer)
Day 3: Friday 7th of Aug. 2020 touring the Eifel with visit of the Oldtimer Gran Prix at the Nürburgring (very central parking in the old Drivers camp, lunch in the drivers tent, possibility to watch the training sessions of the biggest german classic racing event (at the moment it is open if we have hte possibility for 15 exclusive minutes with the AC owners club on the gran Prix course...i do my best...)
Evening: BBQ at the hotel (depending on the weather, alternative private dinner)
Day 4: Saturday 8th of Aug. 2020 Three River Tour to the Lahn, middle Rhine and Mosel
BBQ Lunch at Burg/Castle Reichenstein at the upper Rhine,Private dinner at the hotel
Day 5: Sunday 9th of Aug. 2020 breakfast, then depart at your leasure
The hotels in Cologne and Bonn are secured for the above date (at the moment 25 rooms in Cologne and 35 Rooms in Bonn) and you can book in directly at the hotels as of now to secure the room (mentioring „AC International 2020“) striktly first come first serve policy
Price for double room incl. breakfast and garage
Room at the entrance side 680 € for 4 nights (600€ single)
Room with rhine view at the side of the hotel 720 € for 4 nights (640€ single)
Room with frontal rhine view and balcony 760 € for 4 nights (680€ single] Sorry sold out!!!!!!!!!!!!
Room at the Boutiquehotel Dreesen 640€ for 4 nights incl. Breakfast, two single beds here possible, Hotel is 0,5 miles from the Rheinhotel (good ten minutes walk)
Breakfast at the Boutiquehotel or Rheinhotel possible
Please send us (Ursula and Jürgen Wahn) an email to wahn@netcologne.de when you will have booked in and tell us also if you have booked in for the additional night before in Cologne (please car type, reg.nr of the car and mobile phone number and name co driver
Addional costs for programm, lunch, dinner, most drinks, bustransfer, guiding, entrance fees not finished at the moment but +/- 500-550€ (per person)
Marriott Cologne Tel: +49221942220
Rheinhotel Dreesen Tel.: +4922882020
Boutiquehotel Dreesen Tel: +49228830060
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Hello interested members,
after a question for seperated beds in a double room, the Rheinhotel Dreesen have offer me a new room category at there sister hotel
"Boutiquehotel Dreesen"
The sister hotel is 0,5 miles from the Rheinhotel (good ten minutes walk). If you want to be sure to have two single beds please book at the Boutiquehotel Dreesen a very nice small hotel. You can choose if you want to have breakfast there or at the Rheinhotel.
Double inkl. breakfast is 640€ for 4 nights
Tel. +49228830060
Thank you
Jürgen
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link:
https://www.boutiquehoteldreesen.de/en/home
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With great pleasure we make the anouncement that Constant Wagner joins the orgateam for the AC International 2020. His knowleadge around the organisation of the two Luxembourg events will be very helpfull.
Welcome Constant
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Hello again to all interested club members
unforgently i have to make a short anouncement that the frontal rhine view with balcony rooms are all sold out. All other room types are still available
At the moment there must be booked in club members who have booked in, in one or both hotels in the rooms which are reserved for the international 2020 and have not written an email (wahn@netcologne.de) to us. It is absolut nessersary to have the names of driver and codriver, car type, regnr. of the car and a mobile phone number and if you have booked in one or both Hotels, to make a concret planning for the meeting. So please give us this informations via email as fast as possible.
Thank you in advance and looking forward to see you in Bonn (Cologne)
Jürgen, Ursula and Constant
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Hello,
If you intend to join in on Day 0 and book the Mariott in Cologne (night of 4th of August 2020), please proceed as follows, to avoid unnecessary frustrations in the booking process (Mariott is a global operator and you risk to be sent around the world to Service Center operators who do not understand what you want to book for):
- call Mariott at Cologne +49221942220
- select your language option
- select option 3 (=> this brings you to the local operator)
- insist to be connected to the inhouse local reservation team; only they know about this arrangement and are currently in position to take your reservation;
- ask for reservation team in house for booking a room for the 4th of August 2020, under reference ACOC 2020).
- give them your personal data including e-mail address, for them then to send you a reservation form.
In case you are nevertheless unsuccessful to get what you want, simply send your request by email to Ursula at wahn@netcologne.de and she will be making the reservation for you. You should then be contacted by the Mariott with their reservation form to be filled.
Hope this is of help.
Constant, Ursula & Jürgen
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Nürburgring for the friday tour confirmed,
yesterday we have got the confirmation from the organisers of the Oldtimer Grand Prix (biggest classic racing event in Germany) that the AC Owners Club will be a part of this wondeful event again (remember Luxembourg 2015)
central parking at the old drivers camp
lunch in the drivers tent
possibility to watch the training sessions on friday
(at the moment it is open if the club has 15 exclusive minutes at the Grand Prix Course... we do our best)
Looking forward to see you in Germany 2020
Jürgen, Ursula and Constant
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Excellent news, Jürgen. Oldtimer GP is always an exciting venue! If on top we would be allowed to take a few laps on the GP course, that would be “the cherry on top of the cream” as we use to say at this end. Well done!
And thanks for having secured underground parking at Dreesen’s, just a couple of miles downriver from the remains of the WW2 famous Remagen bridge. The guided tour over the roof of Cologne’s cathedral on the evening of day 0 also looks very promising to start with some safe unusual excitement.
By now there are 23 cars registered for the ACOC International 2020 (half of which have also booked day 0), and although we still have some 8 months to go, it is difficult to plan offsite restaurants, visits and bus transfers before we know how many +/- people will ultimately be amongst our party. Hence a call to all those of you eager to join into the event to book as soon as possible.
Depending on the number of participants, the total cost besides hotels and private expenses will be within the limit of 550 €/person (plus 40 €/person for day 0). To avoid unnecessary hassle with exchange rate fluctuations between £ and € over the next months, and complicated accounting, please do not use the ACOC treasurer as intermediary but make payments in € directly as stated hereafter.
Early booking greatly helps the small organization team to get things going and to guarantee an exciting and stress-free event.
Your booking in 3 steps:
- hotel reservation at Rheinhotel Dreesen (and eventually the Mariott for day 0 in Cologne) – see earlier posts by AKL 1333
- email to Jürgen and Ursula at wahn@netcologne.de confirming that you have secured your hotel booking
- payment of an advance of 400 €/person (800 €/couple) to the bank account opened by Jürgen specifically for the event; if you book also day 0, please add 40 €/person (80 €/couple)
Account holder: Juergen Wahn
Mielenforster Kirchweg 36
51069 Cologne
Germany
Bank: Deutsche Apotheker und Ärzte Bank
IBAN: DE56 3006 0601 0206 3522 94
BIC: DAAEDEDD
Hope to see you on the Rhine next year.
Your organization team: Jürgen, Ursula & Constant
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Juergen
When I transferred deposit through HSBC UK Bank I had to confirm your first line of home address and City, Not sure if this is just HSBC UK Bank or
Standard procedure for all UK Banks. Thought I should pass on message to save wasting time, Have all details to hand when carrying out transaction.
Keith
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Thanks Keith,
In my post of 09:47:49 I have now included Juergen's home address.
See you soon
Cheers
Constant
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Your hosts for the International 2020 pictured at the entrance to a current exhibition on Bonn's Museum Mile ......
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postponed to August 2021, Informations are following[/color][/size]
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Any updates?
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Whether to roll it over to next year was discussed at the last Council meeting and a final decision will be taken this month.
Bryan
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Thanks Bryan !
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Good morning to all,
Given the uncertainty about evolution of travel essentially between the UK and Europe in the coming months, and based on feedback received from a number of ACOC members who initially had enrolled into the International, we the organizers of the International 2020, have now decided to postpone the event to hopefully 2022.
Jűrgen and Ursula are working hard to reschedule the venues and hotels to the period 10 to 14 August 2022 (with additional evening on 9 August in Cologne).
Let's cross our fingers that by next year Covid-19 will be "cold coffee" and that we will be able to enjoy an International without restrictions.
Meanwile, enjoy the summer through more local rides in your ACs and keep safe and healthy.
Constant
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Constant, thank you for the update and the time you put into this. Looking forward to 2022 then.
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AC International 2022 (for ACOC Members)
Now confirmed for dates 10 to 14 August 2022.
Bookings at Rheinhotel Dreesen can now be done. Please refer to ACtion for phone and e-mail details. Please quote "AC International 2022" when you make your reservation.
Details about optional evening and night in Cologne on 9 August will follow shortly.
Many thanks to Jürgen and Ursula for the hard work they put into rescheduling a second time this international meeting, originally planned for 2020.
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A touch of Cologne and the romantic Rhine
The ACOC International 2022
postponed twice from 2020 & 2021
UPDATE
(9),10.8.2022 – 14.8.2022 Rheinhotel Dreesen, Bonn,
German Capital 1949-1990
and Entrance to the Middle Rhine Valley
Unesco world heritage
Day 0: (optional day): Tuesday 9 August 2022 arrival in Cologne around
3 p.m. at the easy to reach (just 3 turns from the Autobahn) hotel
near the cathedral: Hotel Mondial am Dom
Single/double room incl. breakfast is 105/125 € parking around 30 €
Special guided visit along the cathedral roof (weather permitting) and a cosy evening
in Brauhaus Früh (tour, dinner/drinks at own expense around 50 € p.P.)
Next morning (Wednesday) touring through the Bergisch (Mountain) Land (ca 120 kms);
Guided visist of the last home of Konrad Adenauer at the Rhine;
Lunch in restaurant Haus im Turm (safe parking during the visit and lunch);
Program including lunch/guided visit around 50 € p.P.)
Carferry over the Rhine to Rheinhotel Dreesen (5 € p.car)
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Day 1: Wednesday 10 August 2022: official start of the International
Arrival in the afternoon at Rheinhotel Dreesen
Drinks and private opening dinner in the hotel (19:00 h)
Day 2: Thursday 11 August 2022: Three River Tour: Lahn, Rhine, Mosel (ca 150 kms);
BBQ Lunch at Burg/Castle Reichenstein on the upper Rhine;
Return route to Dreesen Hotel along the Rhine (ca 110 kms)
Social evening at Rolandsbogen, high above the Rhine (taxi transfer)
Day 3: Friday 12 August 2022: touring the Eifel with visit of the Oldtimer Grand Prix at the
Nürburgring, including lunch in the drivers‘ tent, watching training sessions; if we are
lucky, the club will get some exclusive laps around the Grand-Prix course;
BBQ at Rheinhotel Dreesen (weather permitting, otherwise private dinner);
Day 4: Saturday 13 August 2022: drive to the Ahr valley with visit of the most secret
German place during the cold war;
Lunch in the Rhine city of Remagen at Schröders Wacht am Rhein;
Afternoon touring the Wied valley;
Private closing dinner at Rheinhotel Dreesen (19:00 h)
Day 5: Sunday 14 August 2022: breakfast, then departure at your own pace.
The hotel in Bonn is secured for the above dates (35 Rooms in Bonn) and you can book directly at the hotels to secure the room (mentioning „AC International 2022“) striktly first come first serve policy. Please cancel also any bookings you may have done for 2021 both in Bonn and possibly in Cologne.
Dreesen price for double room incl. breakfast and garage remains as stated for 2020:
Room at the entrance side 680 € for 4 nights (600€ single)
Room with Rhine view at the side of the hotel 720 € for 4 nights (640€ single)
Room with frontal Rhine view and balcony 760 € for 4 nights (680€ single)
Room at Boutiquehotel Dreesen (sister hotel just 0,5 miles/good ten minutes walk away
(only here it is sure to book a twin-room with two seperate beds) (640€ twin)
Breakfast at the Rhinehotel or Boutiquehotel possible.
For those participants who have not done yet, please send an email to wahn@netcologne.de after you will have booked your hotel room and inform us also if you plan or have booked for the additional night in Cologne.
Please state names of driver and copilot, car type, registration number of the car and your mobile phone number.
Additional costs for program, lunches, dinners, most drinks, transfers, guided visits, entrance fees will be about +/- 500-550€ (per person) and will be finalized once final number of participants is known.
Cologne Mondial am Dom Tel: +49 221 20630
Bonn Rheinhotel Dreesen Tel.: +49 228 82020 Boutiquehotel Dreesen Tel.: +49 228 830060
Please address all enquiries to wahn@netcologne.de
Your organization team: Ursula, Jürgen & Constant ;)
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Latest news
Today we have 21 cars and teams confirmed for the event in Bonn, of which 12 coming also to Cologne.
In order to enable the final organization and particularly the confirmation of restaurant venues, we will need to close the enrolment process by 15 May 2022, advance funds paid.
As we are all aware, prices for food have suffered enormously from unfortunate events like Covid and more recently the war in Ukraine. So the longer it takes to finalize retaurant venues, the more expensive it will get.
It is likely that the total of costs additional to the hotel rooms in Bonn will be around 600 €/person (of which 400
advanced).
The parking at Nűrburgring's old paddock (as in 2015) is secured, with access to paddocks, drivers' tent for lunch, access to tribunes for watching training sessions for the Oldtimer Grand Prix. Today, there is not too much hope for getting the opportunity of laps on the circuit.
To those members intending to join the International, please ensure early booking.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. See details for communicating in the earlyer message above.
You organization team: Ursula, Jürgen & Constant
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Hello,
Is there any "Umweltzone" anywhere near or around the hotel where our cars may not be allowed to drive in/through?
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Hello,
Is there any "Umweltzone" anywhere near or around the hotel where our cars may not be allowed to drive in/through?
That is of no concern.
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Latest News
All 21 crews registered for the event up to now have been notified today by e-mail with latest information and instructions.
We can still accommodate a few cars, so if any ACOC member would like to join the event from 9 (Cologne) or 10 (Bonn) to 14 August 2022, please feel free to let us know by e-mail to wahn@netcologne.de after having booked your hotel room (see earlier messages above).
The organization team: Ursula, Jürgen & Constant