There is no question: Bad Ems has a lot to offer for today’s pretentious holidaymakers. Due to its favourable location between Westerwald and Taunus, as well as the closeness to the World-Cultural-Heritage “Oberes Mittelrheintal” and to the river Moselle, it is also possible to experience further highlights on the occasion of a stay in Bad Ems. Numerous excursion possibilities, such as little tours over the hills close by up to excursions of one or two days, attract people to get to know the very interesting region around Bad Ems. The Tourist Information in Bad Ems is well prepared to help you with the organisation. Bus operators right at the location also offer the possibility to discover the region in a comfortable and completely organised way. They offer a tour to Limburg, for example, which is definitely worth a visit with its beautiful and very impressing old town and the famous Dome of Limburg, and many other tours, such as to the river Moselle or to Trier, the oldest city of Germany with its Porta Nigra and the amphitheatre, to Koblenz with the Deutsches Eck, the junction of the rivers Rhine and Moselle, or, or, or … There is a lot to discover and Bad Ems is the ideal starting point.

A trip to the unique garden of the living butterflies in the princely palace gardens in Bendorf-Sayn is a must for children and lovers of nature. Maria Laach, a place of cultural interest, the Vulkaneifel as well as the precious-stone stronghold Idar-Oberstein are worth a visit, too. Bad Ems is also an ideal starting point for a ceramics tour into the Kannenbäckerland or a hiking tour on the Lahn-Höhen-Weg, as well as for the mandatory castle tour along the rivers Lahn and (middle) Rhine. Bad Ems, by the way, also offers something for people who like wild motors, as the race track Nürburgring with its legendary Northern loop is not far away. Whoever is in the mood for it can do his own laps over there on the blazing asphalt with hot wheels. At the Nikolaus-August-Otto-Museum, which is located just ten kilometres away in Holzhausen, the place of birth of the famous motor inventor, one will find the roots of the car industry. And how about the traces of the Romans ? They can be found in form of pictures and texts at the Festung Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz.