Category: An Unexpected Journey Page 18 of 22
Lindau is a bavarian town situated on the bank of the constance lake (AKA Bodensee in German).
Lindau is a really old city first founded as a monastery in 882, and we also have the first map on a woodcut attributed to Sebastian Munster, 1550.
(also see Edinburgh Blackwell’s Bookshop)
One of the biggest advantage to be at the yacht hotel is that you’re on your boat but you still enjoy a breakfast service… and what a breakfast ! I thought that after Double tree centraal Amsterdam – Breakfast I’d seen the best, but here i think it is even better, perhaps less international and more german… but with totally new stuff never seen at a breakfast buffet before !!! let’s have a look :
Here eggs have faces !
A way of changing a night at the hotel in a totally new experience… sleeping on a yacht !!!
So let’s have a look at the place, she’s a 14 metre luxury Motoryacht, her name is the Lady Octopus and she have a unique lake view in the middle of the harbour. She offer a maritime lifestyle on 2 storeys with her own sun deck with view over the historic harbour, a big sleeping room with windows and separated bath & shower and 2 another guest sleeping rooms with separated bath & shower. And you still have access to all the convenience of the hotel (breakfast, bar, spa, gym…).
In a few word the boat is extremely comfy and well placed in the harbour and we feel free from the hotel and you can still go to the spa or breakfast which is amazing! Perhaps the only thing that’s missing is the sailing part, i would have love to wake up on the middle of the lake and have breakfast in front of the mountain could have been nicer… But that was an amazing experience which make us think a lot l on our way of living and travelling… and perhaps open some dream for the future !
https://www.hotel-helvetia.com/en/yachts-events-and-conferences/our-yachts/motoryacht-lady-octopus/
The 3 bedrooms :
2 bathrooms
The living area
The only other disappointment is that it is a german-centric hotel. Instructions left in the yacht were only in german. It seemed to cater mostly to german population.
I knew that you could go in bar or restaurant in hotel without having a room in it, so at the end of the afternoon, tired of walking all around and before going back in the underground we decided to go in one…
The advantages of taking a coffee break or a afternoon tea in a hotel bar is mostly that hotel are really quiet place so after a busy time it’s really nice to stop relax an enjoy silence before going back to the busy flow…
I would add that in those kind of place service and deco are always a must…
The green tea is particularly nice, perfumed with herbs and very sweet… and an amazing collection of herbal tea and infusion…
And taddaaaa !!!
I don’t know you but i can totally see me working on that desk… the place is so inspiring 🙂
When you see those two big towers you first think that they are a kind of water or energy related tower, which they’re totally not, they are relics of the second world war fortifications in other word : blockhaus.
Most of the blockhaus i know or that we usually see are on the beaches half trapped in sand or under a lot of vegetation lost in fields, not bluntly scorching the eyes in the middle of a modern city where most of them have been destroyed. But here they stand as immuable reminders of the dark years of the third reich. They’re call Flak tower (flak is an acronym for some german huge defensive anti-aircraft reinforce-concrete tower).
They just begins to be re-used, one now hosts a zoological collection “The house of the sea”, we must not forgot that, primarily they were supposed, after the war, to be covered in marble and gold as memorials and reminders of the german triumph…Lucky for us they’re now in ruins !