Design Hotel Wienecke XI

Hanover


This hotel south of the centre has 140 newly redesigned rooms featuring huge flat-screen TVs, real double beds (twin rooms also available) and funky, bright colours; rooms are on the small side but the sprawling lobby has plenty of hang space. The fairgrounds are 15 minutes away by tram. Breakfast costs €17.50; parking in the lot is €5 per day.


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Nearby Hanover attractions

1. Strandbad

1.49 MILES

This popular swimming beach is situated on the southeast bank of the Maschsee, Hanover’s large lake, where you’ll also find in-line skaters gliding by in…

2. Maschsee

2.89 MILES

This artificial lake, built by the unemployed in one of the earliest Nazi-led public-works projects, is now a favourite spot for boating and swimming. It…

3. Sprengel Museum

2.96 MILES

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4. Neues Rathaus

3.25 MILES

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5. Museum August Kestner

3.32 MILES

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6. Aegidienkirche

3.33 MILES

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7. Waterloo Memorial

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This 46.3m-high column commemorates the victory of German, British and Prussian forces over Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.

8. Altes Rathaus

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