
Best Hotels in Erfurt
From budget-friendly to luxury
Thuringia is small, wooded and literary. The Thuringian Forest runs across the state with the Rennsteig ridge path along its spine, and the towns around the edge are all close together. Weimar is the centre of it: Goethe and Schiller lived here, their houses and the library are UNESCO World Heritage as Classical Weimar, and the Bauhaus was founded in the same town in 1919 - also World Heritage. Erfurt, the state capital, has one of the best preserved medieval old towns in Germany, including the Krämerbrücke with houses built along it. Eisenach sits below Wartburg Castle, where Luther translated the New Testament into German in ten weeks; the castle is World Heritage. Jena in the Saale valley lives off optics and its university, Gotha off its baroque palace. Oberhof up in the forest is the state’s winter sports town - walking country in summer, and dearer in the snow.
We list 159 hotels across 70 towns in Thuringia. A room costs around 89 EUR a night here, and the cheapest beds start at 24 EUR. The cheapest we found is OPERA Hostel.