Hotel & Restaurant Fackelgarten

Fackelgarten is a beautiful terrace restaurant at the Elde river, very romantic and with nice, good quality food and drinks. The hotel is small, but the rooms are tastefully decorated and the beds are good. Breakfast is particularly nice - served on the terrace if weather permits - and consists of a choice of salty and sweet things. We loved the boiled eggs as they came with a hand-drawn smiley face :) One can explore the town of Plau by walking, and observe the impressive elevating bridge right next to the hotel.

There is no car park, one has to look for a place to leave the car in the neighborhood. In our case that was not a problem, but it is not ideal of course. There is no elevator. Hotel entrance is a simple manual door that leads to the staircase. Not so good in case of heavy luggage. Rooms have no air conditioning and tended to get quite hot during the summer days. Opening windows at night is not a good idea as there is noise from the street (cars and restaurant guests). Windows also don't have shutters, but only internal curtain sheets which do not really make it dark inside. There is no minibar or fridge in the room.