Art Nouveau façade with fab interior decor to match (don’t worry, you’ll still get modern musts like flat-screens and WiFi).

Inside one of the city’s oldest residential buildings, with arty restaurant lighting inspired by the pipe organ.

Biggies like Botanischer Garten Jena and Planetarium Jena are less than a 10-min stroll. (Get going!)

Free WiFi is always a nice-to-have.

Award-winning onsite gourmet fare is (almost!) too gorgeous to eat. Imaginative and definitely photo-worthy.

Just 9km from Leipzig Central Station, Trade Fair and Zoological Garden – totally doable via tram.

Watch the wild ducks from this picturesque spot surrounded by farmland in the lush Aue Forest.

As in-the-heart as it gets, right off a busy shopping street (busier once you get there!).

It’s a historic moated castle with a beautiful baroque garden. Repeat: you get to stay on castle grounds.

Contemporary yet cosy rooms keep your sheep count to a minimum.

Wellness retreat with various luxe treatments to cure what ails you.

Next to the opera house and across the street from the train station, you couldn’t ask for a better location.