Booming ecoluxury – Hotel Landgut A. Borsig in Nauen / Germany

Winter 2013! Snow, ice skating? No, not at all. It is 8 degrees in Berlin and sunshine. No Maldives or Thailand this year for us, we are in Nauen, 30km away from Berlin City, in the eco-friendly Landgut A. Borsig hotel.

We stayed together with the family and kids in a nice big suite in a proper 4-star bio hotel.

The Landgut A.Borsig combines all the services you’d expect from a four-star hotel, design and style, friendly and welcoming staff that characterise the region and better hotels.

You’d be hard pressed to find a fault. The rooms are stylish and modern, the views on the Borsig ground are spectacular, add in the cosy Havelland area, a fantastic restaurant overlooking the lake and you have a hotel that will appeal to the most demanding of guests, regardless of their views on green buildings and ecoluxury.
In fact, it is one of the hotel’s biggest strengths that it wears it`s eco-credentials so lightly – if you are not interested in environmental issues you would not necessarily know that the Langut A. Borsig is at the cutting edge of sustainable green design.
However, if you are interested, the Landgut A. Borsig has a story to tell and I love places like this starting in the future, sustainable and eco-friendly. At the hotel we had organic cocoa fibre, horsehair bed sheets and towels, toilets that only use rainwater and food items with labels that trace ingredients back to a specific field. The hotel supplies solar panels, solar cells and all this reflects Mr. Stober`s, the owners life style, Mr. Stober likes the nice things of life, but he said he needs no shower cream at all and that’s his style and his passion. The MICE (Meeting, incentives, congresses, events) industry likes this place for their conferences, teambuilding and weddings.

Furthermore there are willed to pay for this and a few large companies hosted already sustainability conferences here. There’s no such thing as a 100% sustainable hotel, but this trend will keep taking off, more and more people take sustainability for granted our tour of the hotel in the company of Mr. Stober about the history of the Borsig family and what they realized was fantastic. The hotel looked and felt like an entirely conventional, if rather luxurious, hotel, and I was fully expecting to be slightly underwhelmed by the operation’s green credentials. It was unclear precisely how a hotel that felt so normal could really embody a fundamentally greener future.

The hotel attained the highest eco standards, and yet its emissions are lower than at other hotel.
We need a change there is nothing wrong with staying away from luxury chains, sleep in a tent or do glamping, but it remains unrealistic to associate environmentalism with this level of puritanical austerity.
We loved this ecoluxury style experience and support project like the Landgut A. Borsig.
Resto tip:
The hotel has a nice restaurant with a fanstastic sea view and great food. We had a nice dinner with Galloway Schnitzel, bio sausages and lots of local ingredients. The food came together with a nice “Knipser” white wine. Perfect.
We will come back.
Landgut A. Borsig
Photos contributed by Peter Stumpf & Gontarski.