Purs Luxury Boutique Hotel
Designer timepiece
Banks of the Rhine
Belgian design-mastermind Axel Vervoordt’s signature aesthetic is writ large inside Purs Luxury Boutique Hotel, where you’re just as likely to encounter an ancient oak armoire as an eye-popping LED artwork that generates new images every 10 seconds. The result, including a quirky fine-dining spot and suites with freestanding baths, is a one-of-a-kind class act. Plot the finer details of your Rhineland adventure at the library’s lamplit tables, or with a chilled glass of riesling in the wabi-sabi inspired bar: Andernach’s Old Town lies just beyond the hotel’s wrought-iron gates.
Facilities
客室
12, of which seven are suites.
Checkout
Noon. Check-in, 3pm. Early check-in is available on request and subject to availability; fees apply for late check-out and vary depending on departure time.
詳細
Rates include an à la carte daily breakfast served in the bar area, including breads, pastries, smoked salmon, sausage, and eggs cooked to order.
Also
Sadly none of the rooms at this historic stay are adapted for guests with accessibility needs.
Hotel Closed
The hotel closes every year for the month of January.
インターネット接続（無料）
ランドリー
ホテル内にレストランあり
ルームサービス
At the Hotel
Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers, and Aesop bath products.
Our Favourite Rooms
Antique barley-twist balustrades point the way to the Premier Suite up top of the old chancellery building, passing contemporary stairwell art including Markus Brunetti's striking monochrome rendering of the Saint-Gatien Cathedral and an ever-evolving LCD ‘painting’ you’d have to gawp at long after check-out before seeing the same image repeated. Up here, among gently sloping eaves, a cosy den awaits, flaunting original wooden floors, antique oak chests and a signature wabi-sabi aesthetic courtesy of designer Axel Vervoordt. Fill the freestanding bath tub with aromatic Aesop oils and order a bottle of Ahr Valley pinot for the win.
Packing Tips
Readers who like to go full immersion mode while on vacation could do worse than devour Ben Coates’ celebrated history/travelogue The Rhine. Or download an audiobook of original Grimms’ Fairy Tales – the brothers were born less than a hundred miles from here and their macabre tales will soon have you on high alert for evil imps, gingerbread houses and princesses trapped in castle turrets.
Also
A hoard of Ancient Roman artefacts – including gold coins, pottery and a figurine – were discovered beneath the hotel when construction on the new wing began. Some of the finds are now on display in the basement’s vaulted events space.
子供
Purs Luxury Boutique Hotel is a grown-up kinda place. Little Smiths are welcome, but there are no specific facilities here to keep children entertained.
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Food & Drink
Top Table
It’s all about the leafy lamplit courtyard in summer. In the colder months, the closer you can get to the open kitchen, the better your view of these culinary ninjas in full flow.
ドレスコード
Award-winning fine dining it may be, but the dress code here is strictly informal. Still, you’re in a 17th-century building in a mediaeval German town so feel free to go full gothic vamp in the restaurant’s flickering candlelight.
Hotel Restaurant
Head chef Peter Fridén has earned Purs Fine Dining one Michelin star with his refined take on Nordic-Japanese cuisine and unusual combinations of texture and flavour. The signature chawanmushi royal asparagus, smoked caviar and Mangalitsa ham is a highlight of set menus that comprise some six-to-eight courses. And glass walls overlooking the open kitchen frame the entertainment, allowing diners a peep at the chefs preparing their culinary magnum opuses.
Hotel Bar
Purs Bar is pure Axel Vervoordt, embracing wabi-sabi aesthetics paired with eye-catching modern art. There’s a brag-worthy selection of gins and whiskies, and if you’re teaming your drink with a cigar, you’ll need to take it to the adjacent smoking lounge.
Last Orders
Purs Fine Dining is open for dinner, Wednesday to Saturday, from 6.30pm (last orders at 8pm). Purs Bar is open from noon until midnight, seven days a week.
Room Service
Dishes can be whisked to your door throughout normal food service hours, from 8am to 9pm.
Planes
Purs is located in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, about an hour south of Cologne-Bonn Airport and 90 minutes from Frankfurt. Transfers from both airports can be arranged on request.
Trains
Andernach Station, a kilometre from the hotel, runs regular services to Koblenz, Cologne, Bonn, Berlin and other stations in Germany, and beyond into Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
Automobiles
This rural Rhineland region just begs to be explored. Rent wheels at the airport and tear up the autobahn to Andernach, from where scenic drives to chocolate-box hillside hamlets, fairytale forest castles and Riesling-producing vineyards abound. There’s free parking at the hotel.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
They call Andernach ‘the edible city’, which you might imagine to be a reference to its upturned ice-cream cone turrets, mediaeval buildings and wedding-cake confections such as the majestic four-towered Mariendom. But you’d be quite wrong. In fact, Andernach’s nickname comes from the edible bounty grown in its streets: herbs tended in beds in the pedestrianised centre, and tomatoes, courgettes, strawberries and oranges planted around the castle moat. In the Historical Garden, excavated Roman columns and fountains are punctuated by vegetable patches and rows of ancient medicinal herbs. All of these are free for you to harvest as you stroll. It’s an admirable Andernach initiative that effortlessly combines two of the planet’s most satisfying pursuits: snacking and sightseeing.
With nearly 1,000 years of history under its belt, the Marienbad is one of the Rhineland’s most important cathedrals. Gaze in awe at its tetrad of Romanesque towers as you munch absentmindedly on a sprig of mint, then ascend the winding stone steps of the nearby Round Tower – 180 feet of 15th-century stronghold, and Andernach’s emblem. Foot-weary climbers who make it all the way up to the battlements are rewarded with far-reaching views across the Rhine to the gently undulating green hills beyond. Boating day trips along the river, passing fairytale castles and verdant vineyards along the way, are also available from Andernach.
The 45-minute drive to the tiny Ahr Valley wine region north of Andernach is an experience in itself, all forested hills and sweeping Rhine views. Avoid designated driver’s regret by joining a scheduled tour to the celebrated Weingut Deutzerhof winery, where one glass of the signature pinot noir is just never going to be enough.
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