Der Zauberlehrling

Description:

• This offbeat choice is quirky and funky, with a lot of bohemian charm. Each of its individually designed bedrooms conjures up a theme, ranging from the Suite of 1,001 Nights to Seventh Heaven. Likewise, the decor in minimalist settings roams the world -- perhaps the Hermitage, a country estate in some far and distant land with ruby-red brocades and sultry salons. As you enter Paddington, you're brought back to antiques from Queen Victoria's times, with Miss Marple looking down from above. The most modern of all is the Media Suite, with its high-tech efficiency where communication is everything. The managers claim that this chamber is "the place for new messages from all over the world, and maybe even the universe." If you want to perform dirty deeds in private while in Stuttgart, behind carefully concealed doors, we suggest that you won't be exposed if you check into the Black Box.

  The name of this hotel, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," comes, of course, from that old ballad by Goethe, although many people know it better from the classic Disney film.

• © Frommer's 2013

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Recommended 2010