With its location on the riverbank, on the site of the building of the liner Bremen, this ex-space liner has terraces with tranquillity and scenic views. The energetic new staff regime is chasing away the last remnants of alien life as they cheer on other life forms on TV in the form of Premier Bundesleague soccer showing the Werder Bremen team the barman supports (no Blackburn Rovers here!) The riverbank location brings silence at night, only the distant turning of wind turbines breaking the view across a river once crowded with the product of Bremen’s shipyards, now an outside stage for opera, which recently brought 16,000 opera fans ringing the tills to Franck’s belly laughing delight.
Inside is now owned by Sol Mélia and three new hotels are under construction. The two I have seen are creative in their interior design, humorous, adventurous in their use of colour, and show a company not afraid to try something different with their design. This star ship may be grounded, well grounded through design, but travellers will enjoy its silence, service and views. If the new ones match those I have seen, I will make a detour to stay, to enjoy. The may not be to everyone’s taste, but there are always alternatives and they are well fitted up for the business traveller (free Wi-Fi etc.) and their appeal to the child in all of us is a delight.
More of a delight is a client prepared to back adventurous design, as Innside are, and staff determined to enjoy making it work.
