# Bad Schandau

Bad Schandau is a spa town in Saxony, Germany. It also has a heritage railway.

## Understand

* Bad Schandau town council website

## Get in

Bad Schandau is served by the Elbe valley rail line connecting Dresden and Prague and therefore the two hourly Eurocity train stops there. There are also hourly S-Bahn train services from Dresden, which are slower but more frequent and accept regional travel passes. The main Bad Schandau railway station is some distance from the historic town centre and on the opposite side of the Elbe, and is linked to it by a half-hourly ferry or less-frequent and less direct bus services. Krippen railway station is almost opposite the historic town centre and is also linked to it by a ferry, but has a less frequent rail service.

### By train

Long-distance EuroCity trains between Berlin and Prague call here, with a few trains per day continuing to Bratislava and Budapest, at least for the foreseeable future until at new bypass tunnel is scheduled to be completed in the early 2030s. Additionally, regional line S1 from Meißen via Dresden runs at the least once every hour. Bad Schandau is three stations away from the line's terminus, Schöna. Czech regional trainss from Decin also call here.
* 50.91891714.1399461 Bad Schandau railway station, Am Bahnhof 5. (updated May 2020)

### By plane

From Prague airport (PRG) take the bus to the main station and from there the Eurocity.
From Dresden airport (DRS) take the S-Bahn to the main station and from there either the Eurocity or S-Bahn.
From Leipzig/Halle airport (LEJ) take the S-Bahn to Leipzig then regional train or IC(E) to Dresden main station and from there the S-Bahn.
From Wroclaw airport (WRO) take the train to Dresden main station and from there the S-Bahn.

### By boat

During the summer season there are tourist steam boats from Dresden and several other places along the Elbe. They take longer than the train ride and are more expensive, but the views of the river and the Elbe valley are spectacular

### By bus
## Get around

All information about public transport is available at the homepage of the Public transport authority Upper Elbe (VVO).

## See

* 50.92881114.24351 Lichtenhain Waterfall. A waterfall which can be "pushed"!

## Do

* Kirnitzsch Valley Railway (Kirnitzschtalbahn). A metre-gauge heritage tram to Lichtenhain Waterfall.
* Bad Schandau Elevator (Personenaufzug). Germany's only public elevator. (updated Nov 2022)

## Sleep
### Budget

* Campingplatz "Ostrauer Mühle", Kirnitzschtal, ☏ +49 35022 42742, info@ostrauer-muehle.de.
* Pension Elbblick, Elbufer 29, ☏ +49 35022 42627, pensionelbblick@t-online.de.
* Pension & Apartment Menge, Badallee 12/13, ☏ +49 35022 5830, kontakt@pension-menge.de.
* Pension Villa Anna, Kirnitzschtalstraße 85, ☏ +49 35022 42497, pension-villa-anna@t-online.de.
* Pension Grenz-Eck, Schmilka Nr.23, ☏ +49 35022 42029, grenzeck@online.de.

### Mid-range

* Hotel Garni Grundmühle, Friedrich-Gottlob-Keller-Straße 69, ☏ +49 35028 86190, rezeption@hotel-grundmuehle.de.
* Hotel Garni Elbgarten, Dresdner Straße 9, ☏ +49 35022 484-0, elbgarten.garni@t-online.de.
* Hotel Villa Waldfrieden, Schmilka Nr. 10, ☏ +49 35022 9223-0, info@schmilka.de.
* Hotel - Gasthof "Zum Bären", Zaukenstraße 10, ☏ +49 35022 42073, kontakt@hotel-gasthof-zum-baeren.de.
* Hotel Elbpromenade, Elbufer 10, ☏ +49 35022 5470, info@hotel-elbpromenade.de.
* Panoramahotel Wolfsberg, Zum Wolfsberg 102, ☏ +49 35028 859900, panoramahotel-wolfsberg@t-online.de.
* Parkhotel Bad Schandau, Rudolf-Sendig-Straße 12, ☏ +49 35022 520, info@parkhotel-bad-schandau.de.
* Hotel Dekorahaus, Kirnitzschtalstraße 87, ☏ +49 35022 42497, post@hotel-dekorahaus.de.

### Splurge

* Elbhotel Bad Schandau, An der Elbe 2, ☏ +49 35022 921-0, info@elbhotel.de.
* Hotel Lindenhof, Rudolf-Sendig-Staße 11, ☏ +49 35022 489-0, info@lindenhof-bad-schandau.de.
* Apparthotel Steiger Bad Schandau, Elbstraße 6, ☏ +49 35022 925100, info@steiger-hotel.de.
* Hotel Helvetia, Schmilka Nr. 11, ☏ +49 35022 92230, info@hotelhelvetia.de.
* Hotel Elbresidenz, Markt 1-11, ☏ +49 35022 9190, info@elbresidenz-bad-schandau.de.

## Go next

* Königstein has a 16th-century mountain fortress, one of the biggest in Europe (7 km to the west, 3 minutes by train)
* Rathen has a mountain theatre and the spectacular Bastei rock formation (8 km to the northeast, 9 minutes by train)
* Děčín, Czech Republic (23 km to the south, 27 minutes by train)