• Surrounded by nature
• Ideal for cycling and walking
• Restaurant with Bib Gourmand

In the 1930s, this friendly hotel was a tea house, a stopping place for people, horses and carts. From the wooden lookout tower on top of the hill (‘uitkijk’ means ‘lookout’) you could gaze out over the landscape of Salland, with a view stretching far into Germany.

• Historical building, even Bismarck stayed the night
• Monumental Heidelberg within walking distance
• Delightful garden

Within the walls of this historic building in Heidelberg, the statesman Otto von Bismarck once duelled as a student and Mark Twain found inspiration for his book A Tramp Abroad.

• Crisp and contemporary
• Monumental Café
• 15 mile long beach

For four generations the hospitality of Nobel has been legendary on the Dutch Wadden island Ameland - and far beyond. The historic hotel is in the heart of quaint histo­rical Ballum.

• Dine and stay in a castle
• Top museums in The Hague
• Not far from the sea

Kasteel De Wittenburg was built in 1899 by the aristocrat Helenus Marinus Speel­man, a descendent of Cornelis Speelman, a 17th­-century governor of the Dutch East Indies – modern­-day Indonesia.

• Saunas and steam bath
• Magnificent mountains
• Chalet chic

Surrounded by mountains, LA VAL Bergspa Hotel Brigels is an ideal place to unwind. Wood and stone are the prevailing materials inside, which creates a warm and natural atmosphere. Chalet chic in unpretentious Swiss style.