hisandhertravel:

In our stay in beautiful Potsdam, we felt quite royal and presidential as we laid our heads in the Cecilienhof SchlossHotel. Royal, as the castle was built by the Hohenzollern family that ruled Prussia until 1918, and presidential, as the hotel was the site of the Potsdam agreement where Truman, Stalin and Churchill decided how to split post war Germany.

Everywhere you turn in the hotel is a run in with history; the red star in the main Garden is actually a Soviet star as the Russians captured Potsdam when they were making their way to Berlin. The staircases that ascend to the rooms were imported from the city of Danzig, which is not even part of Germany anymore. While in our room we wondered who might have slept in our chamber as other dignitaries like Queen Elizabeth have also stayed at the castle.

The surroundings were of course amazing, since Potsdam is the German equivalent of Versailles. We were thrilled to find out we could rent bikes directly from the hotel, and spent most our first day cycling and hiking the extensive royal Park Sansouci. That night, we each took our time soaking in the huge bath of our suite. (With a bathroom as big as some hotel rooms, we knew we ought to savor it!) Then, we slept like kings in our master suite. The next day we gorged ourselves on the generous spread set out for breakfast; it was the kind of breakfast that keeps you going until dinner: bacon, eggs, muesli, 20 kind of breads, cheeses, and spreads. All the while, we could look out over the beautiful garden from the restaurant patio.

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And a special thanks to the Cecilienhof SchlossHotel.