Where you sleep decides how the whole trip feels. These 10 hotels in Munich are picked for the walk home, not the lobby photo, and they run from budget to worth-the-splurge. Every one is somewhere I'd book myself.
Check Availability25hours Hotel The Royal BavarianEUR 160-280Opposite the main station in a 19th century building, done as a Bavarian fever dream: hunting lodge greens, four-poster beds, a Neni restaurant on the ground floor. Directions
Check AvailabilityFlushing MeadowsEUR 170-300A small hotel in the Glockenbach quarter where each room was designed by a different person, from a tattoo artist to a chef. Directions
Check AvailabilityHotel Bayerischer HofEUR 450-900The grand hotel of Munich, family owned since 1897, with a rooftop pool and spa by Andrée Putman, five restaurants and a nightclub in the basement that has been going since the 1970s. Directions
Check AvailabilityHotel CortiinaEUR 200-350A quiet design hotel a minute from the Hofbräuhaus, all stone and dark wood, with a bar that locals use. Directions
Check AvailabilityLouis HotelEUR 220-400Right on Viktualienmarkt, with oak, limestone and a rooftop restaurant looking over the market stalls. Directions
Check AvailabilityMandarin Oriental MunichEUR 600-1200A neoclassical palace behind Marienplatz with only 73 rooms, which is why it feels private in a way the bigger grand hotels cannot. Directions
Check AvailabilityMotel One Sendlinger TorEUR 90-150The reliable cheap option, at Sendlinger Tor with the U-Bahn at the door. Directions
Check AvailabilityRoomers MunichEUR 180-320Dark, theatrical and deliberately loud in the bar, with a rooftop that fills with people who are not staying there. Directions
Check AvailabilityThe Charles HotelEUR 380-750Rocco Forte's Munich hotel, on the edge of the old botanical garden and a short walk from the station and the Pinakotheken. Directions
Check AvailabilityVier Jahreszeiten KempinskiEUR 400-850On Maximilianstrasse since 1858, built by the king for his guests and still the address for people who want the shopping street outside the door. Directions