At the foot of the Chiemgau Alps, in a ‘charming, unspoilt’ little town, this is ‘a place to feel self-indulgent’, says an enthusiastic visitor. 

A traditional mountain hotel run by Walter Wimmer and his wife, Sabine, who is also the chef. More than 200 years old, this large brown chalet with flowery balconies is in the Black Forest near the high Feldberg peak.

This simple holiday hotel, partly in chalet-style and with an extension, has been owned and run by the Voit family since 1876. It's set in a quiet resort village amid the scenic upland country of Fichtelgebirge. 

‘Comfortable, minimalist and elegant,’ say its fans. This hotel was built by the Austrian architect Johanne Nalbach in the lively Berlin-Mitte area.

In the Charlottenburg district, this ‘funky’ designer hotel is run with an emphasis on healthy living. 

This three-star B&B hotel opened in 1997 and has since doubled in size, but it is still ‘welcoming and quiet’, says its nominator. 

Family-run for three generations, this large hotel in the Black Forest provides ‘service of the highest quality’

Set in the quiet Mitte area, but close to an U-Bahn station, this hotel is set in a former tenement house dating from 1895 and is elegantly colonial in style, with antique furniture, polished wood floors, patterned wallpaper and replica oil paintings. 

‘Particularly enjoyed’, the Schlachter-Ebert family’s modern chalet-style hotel has a ‘spectacular setting’ amid fields, facing ‘a panorama of peaks’, on the edge of a ski and summer resort in the Allgäu Alps.