Our recommended booking agent is Hotels.com. It lists a wide range of hotels, both boutique and more traditional in style, all the way around Lake Constance and back to the ferry ports, airports etc. You can view the comments of guests who have stayed in a particular hotel to help you make a decision.

Once you are in the area or using local websites, you can often book through the local tourist offices, or they will at least help you to make a booking yourself. Most tourist offices will have an English speaker available. You can use the Lake Constance Guide village information we have provided and these web sites will generally provide good access to the smaller facilities. The Lake Constance hotel website may also be of interest and we have also tried to use the international Bodensee website but as of Spring 2011 have had little luck.

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Guesthouses & B&Bs

There is no one perfect solution to finding B&Bs in the area, however, we recommend that you search in this sequence:

use Hotels.com
look at the web sites of the villages you are interested in (see our Lake Constance Guide village table)
Google "Bed and Breakfast" and "Pension" (the latter being the German phrase for a guesthouse or simple hotel), plus the name of the Lake Constance village in question.
The specialist Swiss B&B company is only useful on the Swiss side

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Apartments & gites

We have not used a good Lake Constance agency for apartments to support our cycle tour, but we have found Bodensee Gastgeber which seems to offer a lot of coverage. If an apartment is of interest we recommend you choose a village from our tabular Lake Constance Guide and look at the apartment web sites listed there. Generally you need to book an apartment for 3 or more days, probably a week in high season, but for a family with young children this can be a great way of enjoying the area. With a little planning, you could use the ferries or trains to get back to your apartment at the end of each day's ride.

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Campsites

We are not experts on campsites but it is noticeable that a fair proportion of those in Lake Constance are members of EuroCampings and also promote themselves on the village websites listed in our Lake Constance Guide. There is also a general Swiss camping website which covers the whole country and this looks good for the Swiss side of the water.

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