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A King For A Day

Where: Daun, Germany, 54550

After reading about the The Kurfürstliches Amtshaus, we're not so sure a Four Seasons is so luxurious anymore. How can a hotel compete with a German castle that appears to have come straight out of a fairy tale? The The Kurfürstliches Amtshaus is built on rock as the nearby mountain "placed a curse" on Celtic and Roman counts to do so. We've never heard of such location reasoning before but what can we say, we kind of like it.

The castle holds on to the glamour of ancient kings and queens. But, as Budget Travel explains, the place is actually affordable. The beauty of today's world is that one doesn't have to be a king to stay in a castle. Check out this description:

There's been a burg, or fortress, in the center of the village of Daun since the Celtic era. It's been destroyed and rebuilt several times over the past 2,700 years. The current, A.D. 1712 incarnation--creamy yellow walls with wooden doorways, a gabled roof of mossy slate tiles peppered with tiny dormer windows--has been welcoming guests for 22 years. The interiors have for the most part been modernized, and the rooms are spacious and classy, with easy chairs and headboards upholstered in richly colored tapestries, and Oriental rugs scattered over parquet floors.

But it doesn't stop with the fancy interiors. There's also a a spa. The pools have natural waters, lava stone from the nearby ancient craters, steam baths, a solarium and more. After you've bathed, you can take a stroll through the garden and pretend you own the place. But really, you're just getting a room there for $160 a night.

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· Germany's Castle Hotels [Budget Travel]
· Kurfurstliches Amtshaus reviews [TripAdvisor]