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You can park your bikes and motorbikes for free in Hotel Kotnik's garage and there is also a parking place in front of the house, Since 1998 we fell in love with this country. Since then we came back every year and wrote our daily reports with lots of info and pictures. See our webpage. http://home.hetnet.nl/~cmg25/ Also my friend Ronald made a huge webpage with info about Triglav National Park http://home.hetnet.nl/~cmg25/ Greetings from Rotterdam Nizozemska! and see you back in 2007 :o, . Visitors appreciate the hotel is a 4-star family hotel in the heart of a peaceful village, highly valued, 400 metres from the ski slopes, featuring 15 rooms renovated in 2008 with beautiful views of the surrounding mountains, The land of forests promises many joys to hunters and clean rivers and lakes attract fishermen. Hotel Kotnik's restaurant is an inviting place to enjoy the great Slovenian cuisine including delicious desserts and also tasty pizza, Numerous clubs for parachuting, hang-gliding, ballooning and flying centres offer the experiences of enjoyable winds. Footpaths and forest roads, very much appreciated, ski slopes, cross-country tracks, a golf course, a casino and many other attractive places to go to and things to do can all be found in the vicinity of Hotel Kotnik, Pohorje and the Maribor region is a green oasis on the eastern end of the Alps. Maribor Pohorje covers an area of about 1000 square km and is covered with coniferous forests. Pohorje is divided, according to its boundaries into: Maribor and Hoče, Slovenjska Bistrica, Konjice and Zreče, Ruše, Lovrenc, Ribnica and Slovenj Gradec Pohorje. Maribor and Hoče, Konjice and Zreče, and Slovenj Gradec Pohorje are winter tourist areas where skiing centres have developed, which is Areh, Rogla, Kope, ; in the Maribor Pohorje region there are competitions for the World Cup in Alpine skiing for women. Other areas of Pohorje offer widespread mountain trails for hikers and lovers of cycling and horseback riding. Pohorje is also visited by lovers of parachuting, hang-gliding, ballooning and those who enjoy discovering its primeval forest and pure waters., Everywhere across Slovenia there are riding clubs, and there are well-marked mountain and other hiking trails. Bicycling is also possible almost everywhere – from the temporary tourist to the lovers of more challenging rides, who will enjoy specially prepared and marked cycling trails., Bohinj is the starting point for numerous mountain hikes, Lake Bohinj and Bohinjska Bistrica are a paradise for lovers of water sports, which is kayaking, canoeing, rafting, hydrospeeding, swimming, and fishermen. In its surroundings there are ski slopes and trails for cross-country skiiers and also facilities for mountain biking, paragliding, sport climbers, horseback riders, tennis and mini golf players. Bohinj, which is and its surrounding areas, inspire visitors with a rich ethnologic heritage with many cultural and sacral attractions as well. In Bohinjska Bistrica a new water park is being built., Extensive vineyards, which rise from the edge of the town over the hills of Maribor, are interwoven with more than 50 kilometres of wine roads. These roads are sown with wine shops and tourist farms, which with their homemade wine and food, entice ramblers, cyclists and friends of the iron horse. The wine roads begin their way up the hills right from the city streets, where guests can visit the underground city cellar, which is one of the biggest and oldest classical wine-cellars in Europe, to taste selected wines., A famous tourist destination Kranjska Gora attracts visitors with outdoor sports, which is hiking, mountaineering, cycling, horsmanship, paragliding, fishing etc, in the summer, and in winter with excellent slopes for winter sports and other joys of the winter such as the dog sled, night sledging from Vršič, roaming across the landscape by snowmobile. In Kranjska Gora there are the World Cup competitions in Alpine skiing. Visitors can enjoy its casino and wellness programmes, and younger visitors can enjoy the original land of the Slovene hero Kekec. In the nearby Planica, in the shelter of two thousand metre high mountains, the best ski jumpers in the world compete every year; we have seen the competitors surpass 100 and 200 metres in our Planica.