A small hotel set in a small town that, although well off the beaten track (prior to the reunification of Germany, it found itself just inside the East on the road to nowhere), is both attractive and proud of its musical and theatre traditions.

On first arriving, enter the hotel through the restaurant on its ground floor. The room key that you will be given doubles as a key to the side door to the hotel proper. The hotel is arranged over the first, second and third floors of the building (in American parlance, the second, third and fourth floors). There being no lift (elevator), be sure to ask for a first floor room if you have mobility problems.

If arriving in Meiningen by rail, walk across the Englischer Garten (directly opposite the station), taking the diagonal path leading leftwards. This will bring you to Georgstrasse. Walk down Georgstrasse and across the Markt and into Anton Ulrich Strasse, passing the town church on your left. The hotel is about... more