We needed a meeting facility near Hamburg airport for a day meeting, and this was the choice
http://www.alsterkrug-hotel.de/?lang=en
As a meeting hotel it was excellent with a meeting room suitable for about 20 and modest but comfortable rooms at about 120 euros. The hotel is in the middle of nowhere near the airport, and if you do not have a car, there is nothing convenient for eating, except Burger King, and so meals were in the hotel.
Lunch was a somewhat insipid pasta with pfefferlingen mushrooms. This is the time for this kind of mushroom in Germany, called chanterelle in this country, and I have experienced delicious pasta dishes in the past. This was a distinct disappointment, with the mushrooms having been drown in a bland cream sauce.
Dinner was not much better, and rather than the food, it was the staff that were the bitter experience. They truly made us feel unwelcome. A bottle of prosecco was poured out without even offering us the unopened bottle or taste.
The good news was the meeting lunch. The pictures on this occasion do it justice.
A piping hot seasoned squash soup, turkey in sauce, and I cannot remember what the desert was. However this was attractive, scored an 8.5 on the CHOF scale and was attractively presented. Turkey, whilst a safe choice, can sometimes be a bit dry and tough. Not so on this occasion, being well cooked but not over cooked, with a mushroom sauce which complemented the food perfectly. I guess we were just unlucky before.
So, if you want a meeting in Hamburg, where there is no chance of the delegates absconding for the pleasures of the city, and can make a quick escape, I would recommend this place.
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