Rotel Tours “Das Rollende Hotel”, Wales 1979
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This authentic 1970s colour photograph captures a distinctive Rotel Tours vehicle, known as “Das Rollende Hotel” (The Rolling Hotel), during a tour of Wales in 1979. The image provides a factual record of this unique German travel concept, featuring a red Mercedes-Benz coach hitched to a large, specialized trailer. The trailer is documented with its characteristic rows of small windows, which correspond to the triple-deck sleeping berths (or “capsules”) used by passengers at night. During the day, tourists traveled in the main coach, and at night, the vehicle would park at local campsites to allow guests to sleep in the trailer’s compact 6-foot cabins. The scene is set on a narrow Welsh rural road, highlighting the sheer scale of the German “overlanding” vehicle against the green hedgerows and rolling hills of the landscape. As a self-contained archival record, this shot is a valuable resource for transport enthusiasts and collectors of vintage Welsh and European tour photography.
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