Cora Apartments

Style

Leipzig-a-zig-ah

Setting

Wunderbar Waldstraßenviertel

A Leipzig outpost of Berlin’s quietly trendsetting Gorki group, Cora Apartments are no mere home away from home. Staff here provide a concierge service par excellence, whether sorting a last-minute reservation at the best restaurant in town or conjuring a personal chef out of thin air to whip up a banquet in your apartment. Cora’s theatrical interiors are no happy accident either. Those rough, unadorned walls? The beat-up bedside tables? The outsize sofas that all but swallow you up? The whole experience is carefully curated to achieve a playful sophistication that feels both just like home and yet… distinctly not.

Facilities

Rooms

11 apartments across four buildings.

Checkout

Noon, and check-in is at 3pm; both are flexible, on request and subject to availability. Please note that there's no reception, so you'll need to reach out to the hotel directly with your arrival time.

More Details

Breakfast isn’t included, but staff can purchase and deliver light meals to your apartment on request.

Free Internet Access

Pet Friendly

At the Hotel

Free WiFi. In rooms: TV, Marshall bluetooth speaker, fully equipped kitchen including Nespresso coffee machine, stocked minibar, bamboo slippers, organic Be My [...] Friend toiletries.

Our Favourite Rooms

The huge three-bed apartments on Hinrichsenstraße are top-drawer, with decor that runs the gamut from striking birds of paradise motifs to monochrome checkerboard patterns and delicate French boudoir chic. Choose Cora A on the top floor for its extensive library of books, angelic visions on the bathroom ceiling and balcony views of the neighbourhood’s wonderful Gründerzeitstil architecture. Or go to ground in Cora D, which promises eye-popping wallpapers and prints influenced by Africa, Asia and the Orient. All Hinrichsenstraße apartments have spacious lounges with fireplaces and sofas big enough for careless guests to get lost down the back of.

Packing Tips

Get fully immersed in Leipzig’s darker underbelly with Clemens Meyer’s hard hitting novel Im Stein (Bricks and Mortar). Find a suitably atmospheric café, grab a coffee and a Leipziger Lerche and settle in for this character-driven rollercoaster ride into the former East Germany’s booming sex industry post-reunification.

Children

The spacious two- or three-bedroom apartments are great for families.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Hotel Restaurant

There’s no restaurant in these serviced apartments, but staff are available to provide breakfast and other concierge services like grocery shopping, as well as tips on the best local cafés, bars and restaurants.

Hotel Bar

There’s no serviced bar, but you’ll find a minibar in your apartment that’s well stocked with Champagne, gins and organic wines.

Planes

Leipzig/Halle Airport is a 30-minute drive from the apartments. Transfers can be arranged and cost around €40 one way.

Trains

Trains connect the airport to Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, 20 minutes’ walk from the apartments. From here, trams connect to Waldstraßenviertel. Get off at Leibnizstraße for the Hinrichsenstraße apartments and at Waldplatz for the Tschaikowskistraße and Feuerbachstraße apartments.

Automobiles

You can rent a car at the airport and there’s secure parking available close to the apartments for €20 per night, but an excellent public transport system means you likely won’t need your own set of wheels.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

There’s bags of stuff to do right on the doorstep (or should that be doorsteps?) of Cora Apartments. A stroll through Waldstraßenviertel’s characterful streets, with some of the best-preserved Gründerzeitstil architecture in Europe, is as good a place to start as any. These palatial old townhouses can be seen on nearly every street here – look out for their distinctive turrets, red pantile roofs and fondant-icing facades in Baroque, Gothic and Renaissance styles.

Just north of the district lies Leipziger Auenwald, one of Europe’s largest riverside forests, which also contains Leipzig Zoo, a fab kids’ playground and the 17th-century Rosental park with its steel observation tower. Stroll the forest’s densely wooded paths where charmed ramblers may be fortunate enough to spot the electric-blue flash of common kingfishers diving for their breakfast and the burnished blur of a red squirrel’s bushy tail vanishing into the treetops. Forest foragers will have a field day in spring with the spoils of a morning wander promising fresh nettle soup and zingy wild garlic pesto for lunch back at the apartment.

Back in Waldstraßenviertel, you can catch local Bundesliga try-hards RB Leipzig in action at the Red Bull Arena, or check listings for upcoming concerts; the stage here has previously been graced by some of the biggest names in rock, including Elton John, Depeche Mode, Coldplay and Rammstein.

A trip to the old town should also be considered essential on any visit to Leipzigl, if not for its cobbled market square and the Old City Hall’s colourful zodiac clock and green copper belltower, then for salty pretzels and frothing steins of gose beer in a traditional brauhaus overlooking gothic St. Thomas Church or kaffee und kuchen in the art deco surroundings of Riquet & Co.

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