If you swim against the current, you will reach the source faster!

In the first year after the opening of the Schindlerhof

• many local companies,

• domestic and foreign travel agencies,

• Travel journalists,

• automobile clubs and even

• the Stena Line from Sweden approaches us.     

And they all wanted one thing: special prices for their clientele. I thought that was unfair and asked for understanding. And lo and behold:

Our price guarantee, which has been carved in stone in our parking lot for decades, has turned out to be a hit to date. Guests want to be treated fairly and not be told by another guest at the bar in the evening that he or she is paying less. Our hotel is not an oriental bazaar! In the meantime, it has become even wilder.

Almost all hotels work with revenue management. Depending on the reservation situation, the prices for a hotel room automatically jump from € 100 to € 600, for example. Our prices are fairly calculated We need them as they are. No more and no less! When VAT was reduced from 19% to 7% in the hotel a few years ago, we immediately passed this price reduction on in full to our guests. Because we see ourselves as marathon runners, not sprinters!

Conferences & Seminars

Originally, we had no suitable premises for conferences and seminars. Nevertheless, there was a regular guest who was keen to hold his seminars here and suggested the barn under the roof of the old farmhouse. We gladly agreed, installed a projector plus a hidden screen and off we went.

Our first seminar organizer was Prof. Dr. Arnold Weissman, - highly successful from the first event until today.

However, the room was suboptimal: too little daylight, an ambience that was more conducive to partying than working, car noise and sometimes even smells from the kitchen below. 

At the same time, we had an occupancy rate of 92% in our 37 hotel rooms, despite or because of our price guarantee.

So we decided to double the number of rooms and at the same time create incomparable conference rooms - in our:

Creative center!

There was a model here: the "Creative House" in the artists' village of Worpswede, once built as a home by the sculptor Bernhard Höttgen.

When we visited it for the first time, we told the owner Helmut Weyh about our building plans. He showed and explained EVERYTHING to us willingly and was not at all competitive. Something that has unfortunately become rare these days!

In the conference rooms only energy colors according to Goethe's color theory, i.e. yellow, orange and crimson, changing depending on the time of day.

Scenting the rooms with essential oils; in the morning, concentration-enhancing verveine (verbena) and peppermint, lemongrass or citrus fruits after lunch. In each case, the dosage was so low that it was barely noticeable - but it worked!

We set ourselves the task of building cathedrals of learning. 

Banquets have never been and will never be held in these rooms, but only under optimal conditions.

With floor-to-ceiling windows and plenty of natural light on both floors, very wide tables (not the usual "wallpaper tables" to squeeze in more guests)ergonomically shaped, upholstered designer chairs, (and not the ugly, mostly gold-colored all-round chairs from the corporate hotel industry) direct access to a garden for coffee breaks and group work in summer, lots of pin boards and presentation material (much more important back then than today) and the best conference technology available in 1990.

This extension cost exactly DM 6 million in 1990. An elaborate relaunch took place just a few years ago. In the meantime, there are no longer any projectors, only large LED walls in all rooms. 

The creative center also did very well right from the start, establishing our reputation as a first-class conference location and earning us our first prizes and awards.