Hotel Elbresidenz an der Therme Bad Schandau

A spa hotel on the square

The Elbresidenz occupies a whole front of historic buildings on Bad Schandau's market square, with its façade onto the Elbe. It is the big hotel of Saxon Switzerland: 207 rooms and suites, the Elbterrasse restaurant, the Rio Xingù bar, lounges, a summer garden and its own wellness park with a pool. What counts most is that your stay includes unlimited entry to the Toskana Therme, the village's salt-water baths, so after a hike through the Schrammsteine or the Kuhstall you are guaranteed a hot soak. It is the comfortable base for getting around without a car: train, ferry, Kirnitzschtal tram and boats all leave a few steps away.

The rooms

There are Superior and Deluxe rooms, singles from about 18 m² and Deluxe doubles of 23 to 30 m², with views of the Elbe, the square or the quieter inner atrium. All have telephone, television, free wifi, safe, minibar, bathrobe and slippers; those on the river side have air conditioning. Smoking is not allowed in the rooms or on the balconies. The hotel publishes prices from €92.25 per person per night with buffet breakfast and entry to the baths. Check-in is at 15:00 and check-out at 11:00.

Getting there

By train, Bad Schandau station is on the opposite bank: there stop the EC trains on the Hamburg–Berlin–Prague line four times a day and the Dresden S-Bahn every half hour. From the station, the ferry drops you in about seven minutes at the Elbkai landing stage, in front of the hotel. By car, you leave the car at the door and the valet takes it to the garage (€18 a night). Dresden is about 40 km away and Prague about 130. The hotel arranges transfers from Dresden and Prague airports, at a separate price.