What is a Castle Hotel?
A castle hotel is basically a castle, or castle like structure, that offers overnight accommodation.
What exactly constitutes a castle though has long been open to interpretation. A purist will demand that a castle be primarily a defensive structure, with thick, high walls, turrets, a moat etc.
They should therefore all be from medieval times, before cannon technology began to shatter their core purpose.
Under that definition only a small minority of modern castle hotels are actually castles then. Many may be indeed be old, but their defensive-like structures are merely ornamental.
The modern understanding of a castle though has evolved to include these types of structures, many of which are 18th & 19th century castle follies.
What Do We Do Exactly?
We research, review and choose the best castle stays (plus some similar historical buildings – manor houses etc.) in each of, at present, eleven European countries.
All our chosen properties date back at least 100 years, and they wear their history on their sleeve. Though they generally have modern comforts, facilities and services they also retain much the aesthetic, and atmosphere, of much earlier times….
