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Frommer's Highly Recommended

Built in 2001, this hotel has quickly gained a foothold with loyal business clients, most of whom hail from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Britain. Rising five stories above a centrally located and historic neighborhood in the heart of Munich, its cozy and warm design may remind you of a high Alpine retreat as it might have been reinvented by an aspiring Frank Lloyd Wright. There's a sheathing of intricately crafted, dark-stained oak and exposed flagstones in both the public areas and the bedrooms, and a careful allegiance throughout the design to the Chinese principles of feng shui, wherein objects, windows, traffic patterns, and doors are carefully balanced for a maximum of emotional and psychic harmony. The hypermodern bathrooms are partially sheathed in slabs of stone from the Jura mountains of France, and each has a shower-tub combo. There's no restaurant on-site, but an honor bar is in the lobby, where small snacks can be brought in for munching and as an accompaniment to the drinks. Fittingly, this hotel attracts a good number of European architects, including French-born design superstar Andrée Puttman, who seem to feel at home within the artfully rustic, carefully designed venues.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps, 6th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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