Das Landhotel Hof zur Linde

The Bottom Line: Charming and romantic family-run retreat in an idyllic setting amidst trees along a river.

Contact The Hotel:
On the Werse River, twenty minutes from Munster airport, three hours from Frankfurt (by train) and one hour from the Dusseldorf/Cologne airport
Handorfer Werseufer 1 48157, Munster, Germany
phone: (02 51) 32750; fax: (02 51) 328209;
email: hof-zur-linde@t-online.de
web site: Das Landhotel Hof zur Linde

Guest Rooms and Rates: Forty-seven guest rooms in three main buildings and two private riverside villas. Rates are very reasonable, considering the room quality and setting. Double rooms start at $150 per night; Junior Suites start at $170. The Tower Suite and the two "cottages" each are $245. Packages are available which include accommodations, gourmet meals and bicycle maps, from $345 per person for three nights.

Recreation: The hotel has fifty bicycles for guests' use in the surrounding countryside, and bike trails abound nearby. Throughout the hotel, reading rooms, lounge chairs and sunrooms provide quiet spots to sit and reflect or read, no matter what the weather.

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Review: I fell in love with this atmospheric, family-run hotel on the banks of the Werse River. The setting is idyllic, amidst trees with rolling lawns sloping gently down to the river. Three buildings, once part of the largest farmhouse in the area, comprise this picturesque and romantic retreat.

Converted in 1950, the hotel's 47 rooms are larger than what you would typically see in this region. The smallest room, decorated like an attic bedroom in your German grandmother's house, fits a single bed and dormer windows. A junior suite smelled luxuriously of wood, and featured a four-poster bed with curtains. The Tower Suite includes a fireplace for those crisp German winter evenings. (Only two of the main buildings have elevators.) Two private villas, each in their own building, sit directly on the waterfront. Both include fireplaces, and one boasts a sauna.

The restaurant in the main building is rustic and cozy, with a massive open fireplace that is always lit in the winter. Hunting trophies from the owner's father and grandfather line the walls of this masculine, wood-beamed room. Smaller, more formal meeting and reception rooms have lighter palettes and views of the river.