Self-guided Cycling Tour along the river Mur

The morning of a cycle holiday on the Mur Cycle Path begins with a look out of your hotel window. What do you see? Green hills and forests, for which Styria is famous, and small charming Austrian towns and villages. A little further along the route you meet the Mur every day and it accompanies you to Bad Radkersburg. The special thing about it: you’re always travelling a little downhill on the Mur! The Austrian part of the Mur Cycle Path is 330 kilometres long and begins in St Michael in Lungau in Salzburg. On the seventh day of your cycling holiday you can watch the landscape change – from the mountainous Lungau to the lush green hills of Styria.

Highlights:

• Quiet places and a lively city: On the cycle tour along the Mur Cycle Path you can enjoy both – small towns and the pulsating state capital of Graz.
• Enjoy the ‘Buschenschanken’ like the Styrians do: In the typical Buschenschanken you can taste the regional delicacies such as cider and famous Brettljause with roast pork, cheese, pumpkin seed spread and black bread. Numerous Buschenschanken are right on the cycle path!

Tour character: Level 2

From its source to the Slovenian border, the Mur Cycle Path descends a total of about 1,700 meters (5,577 feet) over roughly 365 kilometers (227 miles)—with a drop of 870 meters (2,854 feet) alone between St. Michael and Bad Radkersburg. This mostly downhill route makes it ideal even for beginner cyclists. You’ll encounter only minor climbs during the first two stages, all on dedicated bike paths.

Included in the River Mur Cycling Tour:

• 7 nights accommodation in 3* hotels, inns and guest houses (hotel upgrades available)
• Breakfast
• Welcome briefing (German, English)
• Luggage transfer

• Digital travel documents incl. navigation app, GPS-data, route book

• GPS-data is available and app navigation
• Service hotline

Not included in the tour:

• Bike rental
• Rental bike insurance
• Tourist tax, if due, is not included in the price
• Arrival and departure
• Anything not mentioned in 'included'

Arrival / Parking / Departure:

• Arrival by train to Salzburg and then by bus to St. Michael im Lungau, duration approx. 1.5 hours

• Salzburg, Munich or Graz airport

• Parking: Free hotel parking spaces or private carport parking, cost approx. EUR 35 per week

• Return journey by bus or train from Bad Radkersburg to St. Michael, duration approx. 7 hours with changes in Spielfeld-Straß, Graz, Radstadt and St. Margareten Staig.

• Return transfer from Bad Radkersburg to St. Michael, (every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 2 pm and every Sunday at 11 am) EUR 105 per person incl. bike, reservation is necessary, to be paid at the time. You can also leave the bus in Graz, costs EUR 89 per person incl. bike or Bruck an der Mur, costs EUR 85 per person incl. bike

Notes: 

• Departures Daily
• Hotel upgrades available on request
• Extra nights
  • St Michael - From 85 EUR p.p (+45 EUR single person)
  • Bad Radkersburg - From 95 EUR p.p (+49 EUR single person)
• Rental bike PLUS - 179 EUR

If you would like to rent a bike (99 EUR) or E-bike (289 EUR), please contact our office when booking: [email protected]

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