Bensberg Palace

Bensberg, Germany

Bensberg Palace (Schloss Bensberg) is a former hunting lodge of the Counts Palatine of the Rhine (the House of Wittelsbach). The palace was commissioned by Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine for his wife Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici. Anna Maria Luisa enjoyed the site's elevated scenery and views onto the River Rhine, Rhine Valley and Cologne Bight. The building was designed by Italian Baroque architect Matteo Alberti and completed in 1711.

Today Bensberg Palace is a hotel.

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Ady H (12 months ago)
Just had an amazing experience here. The views are stunning. The whole place gives you a majestic vibe. I had an amazing burger as well as beer with dessert in the restaurant. Top notch food and service
Sitting Bull (12 months ago)
We were in the room 314 last weekend. We had a great stay at this hotel. The staff is very kind and professional. The tea time with the piano is a great moment. The spa is also very good. I scored it 4 stars because there's room for improvement. The technology/connectivity in the rooms are very limited. In 2023, in a 5 stars hotel we're expecting more. Also everybody was complaining about how cold it is at night while eating at the Dali's bar. We were literally freezing there.The staff was great though, but they couldn't do much about the cold. The food served at the Dali's bar is below average.
Jeffrey DeArmond (13 months ago)
This is a beautiful, updated to perfection huge castle. The rooms were very spacious and designed magnificently! We had the 4000 sq ft Presidential Suite and the 1000 sq ft large suite with living room, both were the very best of the best rooms anywhere in the world! The service was good. The food was good.
Yevhen Zhurer (14 months ago)
It's a great place to spend a weekend and feel yourself as a Duke ? Very spacious rooms, fine smell of bath cosmetics, a lot of space around. Beautiful sight seeing from the highpoint of castle ?. it's also a great place for conferences.
Julia Lu-Sellers (14 months ago)
Stunning venue for your private event or wedding for sure. It's a little out of the way from Cologne and Bonn, but certainly a good stop over for cross continental drivers. The grounds and the hotel are stunning and staff are very kind and acoomodating. Here again, I have to stress that it's rather a couples and business hotel rather than a family one. Even though their rooms are very spacious and perfect for a larger family, there aren't any facilities to cater for little ones. Even in the pool area, we were told multiple times to keep the kids quite (who ever has succeeded keeping two 2year olds and a 5 year old quiet in a pool, I need to know) Breakfast had a great selection of cold and warm buffet, here again, dirty looks towards noisy children. Room service for kids dishes was good, two different pastas and Schnitzel. Otherwise, the bar was very nice and offered a vast selection of steak cuts and selected wines. All in all good hotel, worth a visit if around or wait for their sister hotel Dom to open in city centre Cologne.
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