Best Western Premier Grand Hotel Russischer Hof, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

• A historic winner: Boasting a prime location in Weimar’s old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Best Western Premier Grand Hotel Russischer Hof is a 200-year-old structure of magnificence and luxury. Through the years it’s been the hotel of choice for personalities like Goethe, Liszt and Wagner, and it’s no big puzzle why when you consider the chandelier-laid rooms with period furnishings and décor. You’ll have the added luxury of staying in a palatial suite, where space, comfort and opulence are the watch words.
  
  
• Impressive cuisine: When it comes to dining, you’re well and truly taken care of at Restaurant Franz, where the authentic Austrian cuisine will whisk you away to the Alpine Republic with its traditional flavours and age-old culinary techniques. For more intimate moments, dining under the vaulted eaves of the Rasputin Cellar is first-rate, and for afternoon bites and caffeine cravings, the hotel has its own Coffee House with sweet and savoury delights. Naturally there’s a bar as well, which is the perfect place for a pre-dinner tipple of cosy nightcap.
  
  
• Sites on your doorstep: You’re fantastically placed to make the most of this remarkable city, with many of the top sites and attractions right on your doorstep, including the Bauhaus Museum, the German National Theatre, Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek, not to mention the homes of Schiller, Goethe and Nietzsche. At just over 12 kilometres away you can also spend a poignant day visiting the Buchenwald Memorials, all before being welcomed back at your hotel with a steamy sauna session, and even a massage if the mood takes you.

Amenities

- Wi-Fi
- Terrace
- Dogs are allowed on request (fees may apply)
- Bar
- Restaurant
- Parking is available at a nearby location (fees apply)
- Electric vehicle charging stations
- 24-hour front desk
- Fitness centre
- Spa and wellness centre
- Massages (fees apply)

How to get there

Best Western Premier Grand Hotel Russischer Hof is in Weimar, Germany. Erfurt Weimar Airport is an easy 35-minute taxi ride away, or if you’re arriving with your own car there's parking at Parkhaus An der Hauptpost (Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 3, 99423 Weimar, Germany), which is 100 metres away.

Good to know

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Entry requirements

The passport, visa and health requirements at the time of booking can be viewed on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website for UK citizens, and on the Department of Foreign Affairs website for IE citizens. It is your responsibility to ensure that you and all members of your party are in possession of all necessary travel and health documents, and in compliance with any other immigration/entry requirements before you travel, including whether your passport must be machine readable or which visas/waivers may be required for entry, such as ESTA for USA travel and/or ETIAS for EU travel. Please also be sure to check the validity of your passport and allow up to 10 weeks for passport renewals.