Address: Elbchaussee 401-403 , Hamburg 22609, Germany Show on map
The riverside Louis C. Jacob is a connoisseur's hotel. The oldest wing dates back to the 18th century and features richly traditional public rooms and bedrooms. Newer wings embrace a more modern tone, while remaining equally luxurious.The historic core of the hotel not only features quaint bedrooms - some with old-fashioned tiled ovens - but several sumptuous dining rooms and a leafy outdoor terrace overlooking the Elbe River. There's a gourmet French restaurant, a bar renowned for its rare whiskies and cigars, and even a recently discovered and now heritage-listed cellar. The hotel, which features 66 rooms, 19 suites and superlative service, extends via an underground shopping arcade across the road, where the garden rooms are deliberately furnished to feel more like holiday apartments. Original art - no copies allowed! - is a big theme throughout. One bedroom is dedicated to German artist Max Liebermann, who painted a famous Elbe River scene while a guest here. In the newer wings, the paintings are determinedly contemporary.
The historic core of the hotel not only features quaint bedrooms - some with old-fashioned tiled ovens - but several sumptuous dining rooms and a leafy outdoor terrace overlooking the Elbe River. There's a gourmet French restaurant, a bar renowned for its rare whiskies and cigars, and even a recently discovered and now heritage-listed cellar. The hotel, which features 66 rooms, 19 suites and superlative service, extends via an underground shopping arcade across the road, where the garden rooms are deliberately furnished to feel more like holiday apartments. Original art - no copies allowed! - is a big theme throughout. One bedroom is dedicated to German artist Max Liebermann, who painted a famous Elbe River scene while a guest here. In the newer wings, the paintings are determinedly contemporary.
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Atmosphere: Opulent and Low-key
Check-in / Check-out Earliest check-in: 3:00 PM Latest check-out time: 12:00 PM
US$226.00 per night
(US$113.00per person per night)
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Now a Hamburg suburb, Nienstedten was once a separate village, and staff joke that's what the Louis C. Jacob still is. Most people certainly treat it as a destination in its own right. However, there's a polo club and golf course in the neighbourhood, plus riverside jogging track. A nearby ferry pier offers access to the wonderful Blankenese district downriver.
The cannon on the hotel's famous riverside Lime Tree Terrace belonged to Nicolaus Burmester, an 18th-century owner of this building who enjoyed a rather tragicomic fate. Burmester was a confectioner who loved firing gun salutes - Baron von Münchhausen style - at passing ships. Unfortunately, on one occasion the cannon backfired, fatally injuring him. His widow went on to marry Frenchman Daniel Louis Jacques, later Louis Jacob, who founded the hotel of the same name.
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