Since 1996, this hotel classification in Germany on a voluntary basis to the hotel by the German Hotel and Restaurant Association and since 2010 by the European Union “Hotel Union” carried out. This classification has three years validity and charges apply.

A hotel classification in the form of stars is not a must

The typical hotel guest wants is usually a safe and transparent overview in terms of performance and quality spectrum. The criteria for the star category for “DEHOGA” as well as “Hotel Union” give visitors an easy and quick comparison of its decision. Accommodation providers get certified on their “star character” a clear positioning and a clear competitive advantage. Search and foreign travelers and choose their “sleeping place” outside the chain of hotels according to reliable criteria.

And finally: Stars in the hotel industry are recognized by the guest features characterizing the package of services of a hotel. These characteristics are particularly in digital booking systems of major importance, because the only way that hotels can easily and concisely in those lists, tables and insert tight frame, are the basis for booking decisions.

In my travels I discover but also hotels, which have paid this classification is not connected, because this example not want to classify or not can be classified. The Schlosshotel Münchhausen takes Aerzen Although the “starry sky” no space – but certainly would have earned in features and quality, the German maximum five-star.

Future, even more customer focus and more of Europe

The first

Shredded star system was formed in 1979 in Switzerland. There followed some years later, Austria and Germany. The German Hotel and Restaurant Association in 1996, a system which contained significantly more criteria than that of Switzerland. This classification in the following years significantly influenced the design of the cross-country star system of the Union Hotel Stars. In many European countries, a hotel classification is done by an agency or a trade association. There are no clear legal guidelines and were in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Hungary.

2010, the hotel associations from Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Hungary in 2010, the common classification system established “Hotel Union” with the aim to clean up the damage, “Star Dust” and fü r to provide more clarity joint.
The classification of “Hotel Union” contains 21 basic principles with an extensive list of criteria, which includes 270 individual items of different categories.
New and exciting is the fact that the guest will be included in future refinements and development of the characteristic. Using passenger surveys to determine the expectations and demands of hotel guests and incorporated into the system. The goal focus are very clear “quality management, wellness and others also the sleeping comfort.

Classification of hotel classification

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First stop:The Grand Hotel & Spa burner Park

The Grand Hotel & Spa combines burner Park, in endearingly romantic Baden-Baden, in a special way beauty, wellness, health and culinary experiences. The hotel presents its over 135-year history with lots of charm and free of any “wrinkles”. The Grand Hotel of world-class celebration of life and character traits of a venerable “Grand Dame”. The first lady with plenty of admirers around the world shows her best dress in harmony with nature in a dream-legendary park location.

The ladies at the front desk greeted me with a truly authentic Baden and smile, just as if pedaling backpackers' Very Important Bikers “. The rooms swathed in soothing charm shine clear elegance. This was deliberately left out bits and pieces. Exclusivity can be understood with all your senses.

The evening, I confess: “The greatest gain is also the biggest loss.” I like to let me off the excellence of the two-star hotel's chef Andreas Krolik seduce. Oh yes – I see it almost as a wonderful thing to lose themselves in the worlds of enjoyment. Right at the outset, I allow myself to the spirit of Riesling from Weingut Dr. Heger / predicate with VDP) prevail. Somehow it is the chief Karl-Heinz Sommellier Schopf succeeded the passionate art of cooking, especially with fine wines to refine and to enchant my senses.

The menu: “Exceptional and Vegetarian” comes with a salad of autumn vegetables-carrot vinaigrette and opened in Styrian pumpkin seed oil. It follows, perfectly united in aromas and flavors, salsify au gratin with goat cheese Black Forest, Brussels sprouts, beets and toasted quinoa. For the main course I leave the vegetarian variety of kitchen and let me complemented by venison with wild pepper with fine Himbeeressigjus, turnip, quinoa and mushrooms Pioppini seduced into the native forests.

The dessert – a creation of Nyangbo Grand Cru chocolate goat cheese and Black Forest – the last part of a submission to the first order. The menu was a heady freestyle and led to me almost to oblivion. In between the sensuous always accompanied by Dr. Heger's wine arts.

Hotel in PrinceEttlingen: a charming seduction

Hardly an encounter in our daily life – except, of course, the fashion – is changing with the same inevitability as the imperceptible modern redesign of numerous hotels.

And just as there is not “the” fashion and never was, so there is – and it was – not even “the” hotel design. Numerous different design solutions knows the history of the hotel interior design, and for each room or any lobby you could easily write their own history of its design.

The “new” shows Prince Hotel, the trick is to set design as an enriching element of history and with a finely-harmonic signature is a new scene to create diversity. With the expansion of the 5 *- Superior hotel has grown from 83 to 122 rooms. The “old” Prince has been carefully renovated simultaneously, without interfering with the ambiance of classic elegance and tradition.

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Hotel Investments are subject

And it is striking: The hotel industry is a key issue at the trade fair. After all, here is a continuing building boom, which will be completed in 2013 in Germany to almost 300 concrete block with a total of nearly 60,000 rooms. This new volume is equivalent to ten percent of the current national inventory of 600,000 hotel rooms. And it is certain, in this construction boom and the following increased competition will fail, some market participants.

Not only German but also international hotel chains start to displacement struggle against established family businesses. In particular, the four-star segment is highly competitive for the area. According to industry information, at the Expo Real in early October, in this segment by 2014 nearly 50 percent of all investments. A terrain shaped by tradition and very successfully by owner-managed hotels.

Throat competition in central cities

Most new hotel properties arise in German medium-sized towns and 100,000 inhabitants. Led by the French hotel group Accor and its brands Ibis, etab Novotel and Mercure hotel chains, international, modern and stylish crowd, old-established family businesses in an inexperienced price and the struggle for existence.
This, following the construction boom, hard-throat competition will bring to my mind some traditional companies, some of which are historically rooted in numerous city chronicles, in dire straits, since this is where the demand is the lowest score. Economic development in Europe is forcing companies to spending nights and even on business trips to save. Also, the falling real wages will have an impact on the hotel rates and encourage business and leisure travelers to stay in more and more low-budget hostels.

With new ideas and design into a secure future

Some traditional department stores have recognized the threat of signals at the starry sky and it was early in the new realignment of sustainable design as well as the Human Resource Management in Scene. The Prince hotel in Ettlingen, the Lake Hotel in Ulm, the Hotel Riva in Konstanz, Heidelberg Suites Hotel, Hotel or the Hotel Binz in Ceres have on Ruhrufer in Mülheim / Ruhr, to name just a few examples to a very special way with exceptional design and quality of service for this future position.

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The costs are low and the comfort is much higher than they were a couple of years. Yet one must not confuse a hostel with the amenities of an expensive hotel. The equipment room is spartan, but convenient and definitely sufficient. The guest usually only spends the night in the room, there is much to discover in a strange city.

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Feature compared to the larger hotels or hotel chains can be found in the personal service and design. Boutique hotels are usually owner-managed and surprise with very different styles and character. Although most typical boutique hotel in a small number of rooms are found, in this small luxury hotel segment again and again companies that prop up some of their hotels with a specific style or theme, and so the guest the feeling of “exceptionality” give because that is what ultimately seeks the guest of a boutique hotel: Exceptional individuality.

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Culinary pleasure is for me far more than just a meal to celebrate. It connects people, creates memories and gives communication with taste and odors – connected to emotions and experiences.

Quality in restaurants is going on

My activities and even restaurant reviews uncompromising quality is particularly important. Everything on the table, must be of good quality. A high quality is still a long way connected with a high price. Exquisitely simple, but – that already is a special class. This is true not only for food but also in the selection of wines.

The fascination lies in the interplay between kitchen and wine cellar. The selection and creation should flirt with all the pleasure nerves and caress them constantly. This is done mostly in restaurants where the waiter or sommelier and wine lovers and well-paying attention to what foods preferred by the guest.

Now what makes a good restaurant or a hotel. It is the addition of many components, like the kind of authentic service-friendliness of the staff, the quality of the food and drinks and the decor and atmosphere of food and of course the guest room. All this can be seen on the philosophy of the owners is to pamper its guests. Ergo: What I have from an excellent wine and an exquisite dinner, when the sterile atmosphere to crash my optic nerves.

Service and hospitality

An authentic

Service already at the welcoming friendliness makes one sense that the guest should feel welcome here and at the center. A credible philosophy of the owner will always take me prisoner.
 Let's be honest! A self-proclaimed first-class restaurant with overpriced uninspired dishes or wine is anything but credible. Then I'd rather go into a comfortable middle-class guest house or a stock Pizzeria my confidence.

In the future it will

Be the biggest task of the restaurants and hotels, to run a business successfully for many years. Accumulates in the hospitality industry, unfortunately, the trend toward simple design without any right to individuality. In the catering solves the “new German cuisine” the superiority of Italian, French and Thai cuisine inspired from. Here, I rejoice in the renaissance of German cuisine, which for decades – was punished with contempt – wrongly. But all that does not mean that guests be breaking down the doors of the pubs. Therefore, it is often “different” or “very” or his “extraordinary”. This is usually a challenge to management, staff, the kitchen and the wine cellar. Because they must take the current culinary fashions serve to convince the other hand, with individual ingenuity. The very special individuality presupposes one thing: Can. Can be used in any form. Able to guide competency. Able to service and customer orientation. Able in quality of food and beverages.

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Many people work very hard and so time consuming that a vacation has to be something special. This is no longer about saving money, but rather, in the short available time off to pursue pure perfection. Are beyond the last minute and mass tourism, there is indeed some very exclusive and unique destinations, leave no wishes open – either to the local architectural backdrop to the care of the guests or the surrounding countryside.

Editor Thomas and Martina Klocke provide for more than 15 years, the prestigious international travel magazine “Hideaways” out, one of the most exclusive travel magazines in the world. They have looked with their editors all over the world and their own insights into the new universal app “Top 100 Hotels – The Ultimate Hideaways Guide to the world's best hotels” incorporated. Displays it on the iPhone, iPod touch, and also worldwide on the iPad the one hundred most beautiful and best hotels before.

Here, the app lets

Upright in use as well as in landscape mode: The layout of the site adapts automatically. Innovative way, is the interactive globe in the table of contents, with the desire to find your destination fun. This unique virtual world tour leaves every viewer watching on the iPad already dreaming of faraway destinations and who knows, maybe the second Hideaways app is really a first step for many journeys of a thousand and more miles.

Or to use them as the “Dream Chair-entertainment” in order to dream once of the most beautiful places in the world, even if you look at the featured destinations at the moment can afford maybe not yet – to dream is also very beautiful. “Suitable for six hotels, the app plays from even professional videos such as the Conrad Hotel Maldives, which in the first underwater restaurant invites the world,” said the editor Martina Klocke.

Here are Prince William and Kate spent their honeymoon
Only the necessary cash in the pocket long enough not to spend a dream vacation. You must also know which hotel you must book in order to get offered the desired quality. The “Hideaways” guide is not stingy with the appropriate proposals. So fond of traveling couples about to check in North Iceland in the Seychelles – are exactly where Prince William spent his Kate and her royal honeymoon. Fantastic goals are presented, including an elephant camp in Thailand, the Armani Hotel in the world's tallest building. And Iceland on Laucala in Fiji you can even spend the night at a private hotel by the Red Bull boss.

“It is not even necessary to travel halfway across the world to check into a dream destination. This need not always be finally resorts to deserted islands, Robinson Crusoe convey the feeling deluxe, but can be as hideaways, loving refuge in the midst of cities. In Mallorca we recommend, for example Rocat Cap, where guests stay in a former fortress, “said hotel expert Thomas Klocke.

Also new is the app “St. Tropez à la carte “which showcases the best hotels, restaurants and beach clubs in the jet-set village on the Côte d'Azur. The attraction of the former fishing village on the Côte d'Azur is unabated, year after year to enjoy more than five million tourists a unique atmosphere of this legendary place.

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Reception consult
This is always the first step. The lack of complaint, so that it can leave the hotel. Some may quickly resolved. For large defects require or inconvenience to another room. If the reception is not responding to the complaint, only the call to help with the guide.

Guide contact
Even though the guide does not take care of it right away, that the deficiency is corrected, the guest should he explicitly set a reasonable deadline. Rule of thumb: The shorter the stay, the shorter the period. On a trip of one week may one day be appropriate.

Documented deficiencies
Whether it's about cockroaches in the bathroom or a lack of sea view: travel defects necessarily photograph, film and record the time and place. Just so the tourists a chance at a possible trip price reduction. Alone, unfriendly staff and lack of sunshine, but no reasons for a trip price reduction.

Seek witnesses
Defects that can not be photographed, witnesses are more important. Respond at a putative disease by eating other guests at the hotel-like symptoms. Name and address of record as of holidaymakers who do not belong to your family or travel group. The complaint can be signed by the guide.

Hotel exchange
A hotel's exchange is a lack of travel. The replacement property must be at least in terms of equipment, location and comfort must be equal. It must be near the hotel booked and may not not separate the tour group or family. Similarly, for room changes. Small variations must be as “nuisance” accepted.

Cancellation of travel
It is best to speak with an attorney beforehand. With justified termination, the operator no longer entitled to payment of the price. If necessary, he has a right to redress a lack of free travel services. In addition, the organizer has also the obligation for return transportation.

Refunds
After the return potential claims within one month in writing by registered claim to the organizer. It should equal a specific amount of money demanded. A rough guide to price reductions offers the so-called Frankfurt table that has emerged from numerous travel decisions.

Sample letter
The travel portal offers numerous holidaycheck.de sample texts for correspondence with the tour operator for download. It is just a rough sample texts, which should be adjusted as needed to the individual case. You are not a guarantee of success, but a useful aid to orientation.

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Heringsdorf.The Baltic herring is one of the oldest places in town on Usedom and houses, not including tourists, some 9,300 residents. On its 8.5 kilometers long beach promenade – incidentally the longest in Europe – are numerous villas in the pompous and imperial style. Stucco, pillars, arches and ornaments make each house special. Strolling guests know exactly which building owners at that time had enough money and influence to make the stucco villas on the coast.

In the 19th

And 20 Streamed century the nobility and the affluent middle classes in the Baltic Sea and wanted to be accommodated in style. Almost all the villas had been built at this time. But in the summer residences were also among artists like Lyonel Feininger, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Maxim Gorky, or Theodor Fontane. The glamorous wind wafts the Emperor today.

Ahlbeck.When you think of Ahlbeck, who thinks of the famous pier. Rightly so: the affectation of at least four green turrets bridge is the oldest of its kind in Germany. In many filmsFor the Albanian participants turned to the pier.

And of course

Ahlbeck charmed visitors with its beautiful villas in a splendid seaside architecture. Especially nice are Villa Auguste Victoria, Chrissi Villa and the Villa Germania.

Baltic Bansin.Bansin is the youngest of the three imperial resorts on the Baltic. Here it is quiet and relaxed, the promenade invites you to relax and stroll. Always there: the fresh sea wind blowing in your face the guests. Founded in 1897, stands today in the Emperor's especially the mountain road with its magnificent villas.

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The main restaurant “Max on One” is directed by Martin Steiner, who previously cooked at the Savoy Hotel London and Hotel Adlon in Berlin. In addition to the lobby bar there – like the Savoy London – a fine Chocolatierie using French sweets and confections. The total of 364 square-foot ballroom can be divided. Additional meeting rooms for 30 to 100 guests are available. The Spa “Talise” offers free-standing bathtubs, tropical rain showers and Asia from the Zen tradition inspiring designed elements.

This year will total nine other Jumeirah hotels to open in the world.

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