Departure Base

Discover all the useful information and advice related to your departure base.

Starting out formalities & boarding

Locaboat Holidays
Le Port Amont – 7 rue de la Zorn
Lutzelbourg, FR 57820

✉:  lutzelbourg@locaboat.com
T: +33 (0) 3 87 25 70 15
F: +33 (0) 3 87 25 70 18
G: N 48°43’53.70 E 07°15’02.96

Starting out formalities:

Departure days between 9 am and 6 pm.

 Boarding:

As soon as the boat is ready.

Hotels, restaurants and shopping facilities on site

Hotels:

  • Des Vosges** (Logis de France) tel.: 03 87 25 30 09
    Fax : 03 87 25 42 22
 Restaurants:

  • Bierstub D’Eselbahn tel.: 03 87 25 30 25 (closed on mondays)
  • Des Vosges** tel.: 03 87 25 30 09
  • Brasserie des éclusiers (4 km dir. boat lift)
    tel.: 03 87 25 48 66
  • Auberge du Mayakafer (3 km dir. boat lift)
    tel.: 03 87 25 43 45 (closed on mondays)
  • More restaurants in Phalsbourg (4 km) and Saverne (10 km). Our base will be glad to inform you.
Shops:

  • Bakery and tea salon: open tuesday to friday from 7 am to 7 pm, to 5 pm on Saturday and to 11.45 am on Sunday
  • Kiosk with grocery store: open daily from 5.45 am to 6.30 pm closed at 12 am on Sunday
 Markets:

  • At Phalsbourg (4 km) Friday mornings
  • At Saverne (10 km) Thursday mornings

Touristic Information

Gastronomic specialities:

  • ‘tarte flambée’ and ‘quiche lorraine’ (salty cakes), sauerkraut, ‘backeoffe’, ‘waedele’, foie gras, game, ‘presskopf’, fish.
 Local drinks:

  • Beers, wines from Alsace; Pinot noir, Tokay Pinot gris, Riesling, Gewurtztraminer, Sylvaner, Crémant, Pinot blanc and Muscat d’Alsace.
To see:

  • Medieval castle in Lutzelbourg, Valley of Crystal and Pays d’Erckmann and Chatrian, Phalsbourg historical museum, crystal workshops, the Dabo rock, the tourist train at Abreschviller.
 Fishing:

  • Fishing licence obligatory: on sale at the “Tabac du Canal” in Lutzelbourg.
    Pike, trout, zander, carp, catfish…
Tourist office:

  • At Lutzelbourg (open in the afternoon)
    tel.: 03 87 25 30 19 – Fax : 03 87 24 27 68,
    lutzelbourg@wanadoo.fr
  • At Phalsbourg (4 km) tel/Fax : 03 87 24 42 42
  

Information on the waterways

Waterways:
The locks on the Canal de la Marne au Rhin are automatic (chain of locks). Open every day (except on the 1st May and 1st November) from 7 am to 7 pm. From 17/03 to 14/06 and from 16/09 to 10/10, on week-ends and bank holidays they are open from 9 am to 6 pm.

Tunnel & boat lift always close 1 hour earlier. Canal des Houillères de la Sarre: All the locks are automatic. Free navigation from 01/04 to 31/10 from 8.30 am to 6.30 pm.