Rest area: Schlosshotel Basthorst
Over cobblestones, the car rumbles to Castle Basthorst. A narrow straight alley along, which actually requires to be traveled by coach. The guest pulls his trolley up the staircase to the castle entrance and thinks: A leather suitcase would be stylish now. At the reception is a silver bowl full of peppermint taler with imprinted coat of arms. Quickly put one in the mouth while the receptionist gets the papers ready.
Room 101. Newly renovated in soft pigeon blueA subtle stucco molding on the ceiling, white sash windows and dark wooden floor. So someone would also set up his private bedroom. Hotel owner Marjon Wolthuis comes from Holland, the country with the best living magazines. Very un-German, she has set up the Mecklenburg estate and this is clearly meant as a compliment. What she found here in old paintings, four-poster beds, chairs, cupboards, has been worked on and mixed with modern things, It can be felt that the trained restaurateur has proceeded with detail rage.
Each room in the farmhouse is different: sometimes kept in warm tobacco tones and equipped with rough leather and English furniture. in rose with floral wallpaper by Designers Guild, Everywhere the balance is maintained: The equipment never falls into the decorative-historical, always the desire is in the foreground, the guest may feel comfortable here. On the first floor, renovated in May 2008, Wolthuis says: "I like my last rooms the best". She has worked in large hotels in China that had all the bells and whistles. And believes: "Ultimately, it's always about the one thing: The most important thing in a hotel room is the bed and the bathroom"As if to confirm, downstairs in the yard two men are delivering new mattresses.
You can really relax and unwind in this house everywhere: In the large spa area, completed in 2007, there are several sofas and white armchairs, There are also two fireplaces here, one directly at the pool. Even those who do not book a single spa treatment experience what wellness is in this spa: first in the sauna, then in the pool, then in the reading room with a view of the forest, then in front of the fireplace. However, if you want to have a treatment should try the Ayurvedic massage: With a lot of warm oil as a lubricant the masseur glides over the whole body from the forehead to the sole of the foot, presses here, strokes and circles there gently, so that one then sinks weightless and exhausted on the next sofa.
Not as recommendable as the ayurvedic massage is the Ayurvedic dish, which offers the kitchen suitable for the treatment. Indian food in Northern Germany - that does not have to be. How the menu is a bit too experimental: Breaded celery schnitzel with edible colorful flowers is certainly not to everyone's taste. But that's it Breakfast on the veranda or tea in the sunlit conservatory in the company of an elk: A one and a half meter big stuffed elk head smiles subtly from the side while you sip your tea here. Weird but nice.
Tested by Andrea Huss, editorial director ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com. As a North German she immediately felt at home in the brick building of the hotel. And her cell phone relaxed in the historic walls: It simply did not receive text messages. Impudence, thought Andrea Huss first. The next two days she enjoyed just that: to be difficult to reach makes the Wellnessen namely quite easy.
Ideal for: couples (also for the honeymoon), golfers, small groups, less recommendable for singles and familiesambiance: North German. In the historic Guthaus cozy and noble at the same time, in the adjacent new Turm-Haus anonymous and modern (for example wireless Internet access), in a minute's walk from the mansion distant apartment house as in a separate apartment (even partially with fireplace)the atmosphere: very quiet, rural, lots of privacy for each guest Wellness program: 1300 square meters, completed in 2007 spa area. Sauna area with steam bath and Finnish sauna, swimming pool with landscape views, meditation and fitness room. In addition to the usual spa and beauty treatments also rassoul and Ayurveda applications.SurroundingsSchwerin with its imposing castle and nice old town is 25 minutes away by car, Hamburg 90 minutes, a golf course is nearby and the Baltic Sea is not far. The community Basthorst itself consists only of a few houses with Eastern charm Price-performance: good, double room in the mansion from 128 euros, weekend arrangements with a wellness application from 216 euros per person. One hour ayurvedic full body massage 75 Eurohighlight: the lake right in front of the terrace, the brand new and very individually designed rooms on the first floor of the Guthaus
Castle Basthorst - 19089 Crivitz OT Basthorst - Schlossstr.18 - Tel. 03863 525-0 - Fax: 03863 525-555 www.schloss-basthorst.de
