HotelChatter - Hamburg

Design Hotels Now Have Meat Lockers On View (At Least In Hamburg)

amandak — 2009-11-23T09:14:32-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/SIDE_Hamburg_meat_drying.jpg" class="top"> No prizes for guessing what the menu focuses on at a restaurant called the [m]eatery. Yep, it's the perfect restaurant for meat-lovers and it's just opened at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Side+Design+Hotel/ian/194544">SIDE Hotel</a> in Hamburg, northern Germany, which is part of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Design%20Hotels">Design Hotels group</a>. Basically, it's a fancy steakhouse with a bunch of steak and burgers to choose from (cue jokes about eating a hamburger in Hamburg), but it also offers fish steaks and a couple of vegetarian choices.The big selling point for the [m]eatery is that it's also got a special meat locker room where you can see the dry-aging process for the meat. Looking through a glass wall, you can watch meat dry ... but

Sneak Peek at the Newly-Revamped Radisson Blu Hamburg

KatieK — 2009-10-13T11:07:57-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/Hamburg.Lobby.Chairs.jpg" class="top"> Design-minded travelers to Hamburg, Germany, will be happy to hear the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Radisson+Sas+Hotel+-+Hamburg/ian/119715">Radisson Blu Hamburg</a> reopens this week after a 48-million-euro makeover. Claiming the title of Hamburgs biggest hotel, the hotel has 556 rooms and stands nearly 400 feet tall. Thanks to the renovation, brand-new features include a 23,000-square-foot conference area/ballroom, freshened-up lobby with two lounges, two restaurants and bars, and a fitness center. Plus, the guestrooms have been re-imagined with individual themes. The lobby now has white tile floors, black walls, and an under-lit reception area (see photo above looks pretty good, dontchya think?). Think mod chandelier lighting and gold armchairs alongside Arne Jacobsen Egg chairs. Meanwhile, Swedish architect Christian Lundwall refreshed the guestrooms

The George Hotel in Germany Seems Culturally Confused

KatieK — 2009-05-04T11:04:27-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/george_hotel.jpg" class="top"> Perhaps even more than us, the New York Times sure does like a hotel with a quirky shtick. Last week, they <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/27/101915/185/hotels/NYT_Roughs_It_at_London_s_Rough_Luxe">checked in</a> to a London hotel that cant quite make up its mind between rough and luxury; this week a Times-er <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/travel/03check.html?ref=travel">navigated</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+George/ian/271099">The George</a>, a Hamburg, Germany, hotel all decked out in British décor. Weird as it may seem, the design hotel's English theme is a reflection of its location. According to the NYT, the port city of Hamburg and its residents "have always had a fascination with its larger and more famous counterpart across the North Sea and up the River Thames." Apparently locals have long partied it up in London instead

Hotel Renovations: Three New Styles at Radisson SAS Hamburg

amandak — 2008-09-02T09:31:40-05:00

There's nothing like the mention of a city's tallest building to get us excited about potentially great hotel room views and in northern Germany the 120-meter Radisson SAS Hotel Hamburg is the tallest kid on the block. What's more, it's about to get a very extensive makeover--the year long renovations are set to cost €45 million (US$65m).

A Hip Hostel for Hamburg?

jennm — 2008-05-09T13:04:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/superbude_021.jpg"class="imgborder">Our inbox just brought word of a recently opened hotel/hostel/lounge in Hamburg, Germany, and we must say that staying in a hostal has never looked like so much fun. The place is called <a href="http://www.superbude.de/">Superbude</a>, a name we find ourselves partial to for no other reason than that it reminds us of the hilarious "Superbad." Rooms, priced from about $90, come with up to four beds and are spread across six different colored floors. Guests get to choose whether they want to stay on the brown, grey, red, pink, green or blue level. Amenities include in-room TVs, a Wii sports room, an in-house "private cinema," Skype cordless phone rentals and a Kitchen Club, comprised of three fridges