Best Western Plus Hotel Steinsgarten

Close to the centre yet away from the main roads, the Best Western Plus Hotel Steinsgarten, Giessen, Germany, is the university town's business and conference hotel, with free Wi-Fi and a big TV in every room, a restaurant with show kitchen and mediterranean style offering international cuisine, a spa with pool and sauna, and eight air-conditioned conference rooms plus group workrooms for events of every size. The city centre, its sights and its cultural venues are a few minutes' walk away, with the university and the River Lahn close by. Green hills surround the town. Giessen is a lively university town on the River Lahn in the middle of Hesse, where a big student population gives it a youthful buzz. A hands-on maths museum invites visitors to play their way through numbers and shapes, one of Germany's oldest botanical gardens dates back four centuries, and the castles and half-timbered towns of the Lahn valley lie close by. Marburg's hilltop old town and castle are a short trip north.