Sustainability and local sourcing
We are not promising you an eco-label or a carbon footprint calculation. We will tell you what actually happens here, and what you get out of it.
Holiday homes like to advertise how sustainable they are. Usually that comes down to a card about reusing your towels and a photo of a meadow. We do it differently: this page sets out what we actually do, and what we deliberately do not claim.
The houses stand in the Rhein-Ahr-Eifel protected landscape area, and the nature reserve around the Gänsehals begins next door. That is not an award we bought ourselves, it is simply where we are. It brings rules with it that we keep to, and paths that you can walk straight from the door.
Two restaurants, the bathing beach, the playground and the first Traumpfad are all within walking distance. Bäckerei Hilger and Metzgerei Rausch are in Rieden. If you like, you can park the car when you arrive and not touch it again until you leave.
In practice
You charge your electric car right outside the door. No detour to the nearest charging station, no app, no roaming tariff.
The firewood for the wood-burning stoves comes from the surrounding area and is already waiting in the house. You do not have to buy it or carry it there.
The Bäckerei Hilger bakery on Oberstraße and the Metzgerei Rausch butcher on Kirchstraße are both in Rieden, a few minutes away.
The Eifeler Seehütte and the Al Lago are both local businesses. Both are within walking distance and both take dogs, the Al Lago on the terrace.
The wine and the specialities waiting on the table when you arrive come from the region.
We provide bed linen, towels and bathrobes. Please bring your own sauna towels.
Solid timber houses rather than prefabricated ones. The living area is on one level, so that the houses will still work for everyone in twenty years’ time.
Book direct with us and you pay no portal fees. The money stays in the business instead of going to a platform.
Honestly
We have no sustainability certificate. We do not present you with a carbon footprint, and we do not offset anything we have not measured. Almost all our guests arrive by car, because the Waldsee is hard to reach by bus or train. That is the reality of a holiday region in the Eifel.
What we can influence, we do: short distances on foot, charging points at the house, shops and restaurants in the village, houses built to last. Anything else would just be a claim, and we think claims are the wrong way to build trust.
Three holiday homes on the Sonnenterrasse, a few minutes from the Riedener Waldsee. Check availability and book direct with your hosts.
Prefer to talk? +49 174 6579 422, daily from 9:00 to 18:00
