Boutique Retreats, Lavish Estates and Trendy Hotels in Stuttgart
Not just for business trips, Stuttgart in Germany has vineyards, palaces and trendy galleries – plus one of Europe’s biggest zoos, too. A stay in this city is all about craft beers and hearty Swabian dishes: try maultaschen (meat-stuffed pasta) or zwiebelrostbraten (beef with fried onions). And afterwards? From the annual jazz festival and glittering Christmas markets to the Mercedes-Benz Museum, this city has something for everyone – here are some great hotels and places to stay while you explore Stuttgart.
1. Waldhotel Stuttgart
Boutique Hotel, Spa Hotel
Wald means forest and, as the name suggests, this red-roofed, modern château is surrounded by the woods beyond Stuttgart’s TV Tower. It may feel rural, but the city centre is under 10 minutes away by metro from nearby Waldau station. Oak floors and stone bathrooms, a spa, tennis courts and expansive gardens all add to the idyllic country house ambience. The Finch restaurant, in a firelit 1910 summerhouse, serves up reborn classics including venison-pistachio-stuffed maultaschen with wines from some great German vineyards.
2. Jaz in the City Stuttgart
Boutique Hotel
Opened in 2018, music-themed Jaz in the City is a futuristic edifice in Stuttgart’s sky-scraping Europaviertel (Europe district). Four categories of smart, colourful rooms put an emphasis on tech, with trendy sound systems and fast, free wifi. There’s a gym and spa, too, as well as live gigs and daily DJ sets in the Rhythms Bar & Kitchen – where local cuisine gets jazzed up and turned into tapas. You’ll end up sipping cocktails on Balinese beds up on the roof terrace high over the city.
3. Arthotel ANA Neotel
Boutique Hotel
The swinging ’60s epitomise the ambience at this upbeat hotel in the southern suburbs, peppered with retro design and quirky furniture – like a clock made from an old wheel, and a sofa fashioned from the front of a vintage car. There’s even a collection of historical buses, the Gottlob Auwärter Oldtimer Museum, in the same building. Trains from the nearby metro station will have you in the city centre in 20 minutes – or you can always jump on one of the hotel’s free bikes to explore the area.
5. Pullman Stuttgart Fontana
Boutique Hotel, Hotel, Chain Hotel
Right next to Vaihingen station in a far-flung, forested suburb, you can be strolling through the local park within two minutes of leaving this brick tower block – and it’s only a 20-minute walk to the city centre. The Pullman is impressive, with a spacious pool, fitness area and 250 rooms delivering views to the verdant horizon. The smart wooden tables in the airy ground-floor restaurant also look out onto trees, and you can fill up on old-school meaty cuisine or classic south German carbs like schupfnudeln and spätzle.
6. Steigenberger Graf Zeppelin
Luxury, Hotel, Spa Hotel
The only way to get closer to Stuttgart’s historic main station would be to bed down on the platform – the Graf Zeppelin is as central as they come. Among the six on-site bars and restaurants, the Olivio scored its second Michelin star in 2020: the seven-course tasting menu might give you Black Forest trout with pickled radish and Bavarian lamb, to Swiss chocolate with beetroot and seaweed. For cheaper, more conventional Swabian fare, try the lamplit Zeppelin-Stüble. Work it off in the gym or relax in the stylish spa.
7. Le Méridien Stuttgart
Luxury, Hotel, Spa Hotel
Boasting central Stuttgart’s largest spa, Le Méridien gives you space to chill – try the big heated pool or pound the gym, which is open 24/7. Rooms enliven the air of corporate-chic with abstract art and funky light fittings, while the fanciest suites have their own jacuzzis, conservatories or real log fires. When the sun’s out, the olive-bedecked courtyard of the cosy Kleinschmeckerei restaurant feels almost Mediterranean.
8. Hilton Garden Inn Stuttgart Neckar Park
Hotel, Chain Hotel
This stylish business-centric modern block, next door to the massive Mercedes-Benz Arena, has 2,000sqm (21,500sqft) of event space. But that doesn’t mean there’s no room for regular travellers – bedrooms are big and airy, and you can have Sky sports and classic currywurst to wash down your locally brewed beer in Mike’s Urban Pub. Several other sporting venues are right on the doorstep, and the legendary Mercedes-Benz Museum is a 10-minute stroll away.
9. Zur Weinsteige
Hotel
10. Althoff Hotel
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11. Moevenpick Hotel Stuttgart Airport & Messe
Hotel
12. Hotel Münzmay
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13. Kulinarium An Der Glems
Hotel
14. Motel One Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
Boutique Hotel, Chain Hotel, Hotel
Copper and turquoise are keynotes in the motel’s fizzing contemporary design – inspired by the natural mineral springs that put Cannstatt, Stuttgart’s oldest district, on the map. The bar is a soothing underwater-scape of hanging bubble chairs, drop-shaped quicksilver lamps and wave-patterned screens. The station is next door, so you can reach the city centre in five minutes. Make sure you explore the churches and museums of Bad Cannstatt old town, right on your doorstep – for most of its history, it was bigger and more important than Stuttgart.
15. Der Zauberlehrling
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This is an updated version of an article originally written by Nicole Link.
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