Top 10 Romantic Castles - Sababurg - The Real Sleeping Beauty Castle ~ Days of Yore Travel

Well, it's almost Valentine's Day - so Days of Yore Travel would like to present you with the Top 10 Romantic Castles you can stay in. Here's our first choice:

No. 1 - Sleeping Beauty’s Castle – Sababurg

The Real Sleeping Beauty Castle - Right Out of the Fairytale

The Sababurg Castle was built in 1334, near the town of Hofgeismar. Purportedly this is the real McCoy – the original true Sleeping Beauty Castle right out of Grimm’s Fairytales.

Truly, there is something magical about this castle, because it was originally dedicated to “Christian spiritual love”; namely – built to protect pilgrims travelling to the nearby pilgrimage site of Gottsbüren.

The Grimm Brothers added Sleeping Beauty to their collection of fairytales, after a woman from this area told them the handed-down medieval tale of Sleeping Beauty in 1810. The forest surrounding (Reinhardswald) is full of so many old trees, you will believe it’s haunted.

Just like in the fairytale, the castle eventually became ruins, full of overgrown roses, but in the 20th century, the Koseck Family “kissed it awake”, restoring it to perhaps the most romantic castle hotel in Europe.

Reinhard's Forest, Rose Garden, and native wild horses in the Tierpark

All of the rooms have names, like the “Unicorn Room” or the “Fox Room”. Designed especially for romantic couples, the rooms are furnished in traditional old-world country/castle décor. The tower rooms have four-posted beds – just like you’d expect in a fairytale.

Tower rooms in the castle, with welcome dish of treats

This hotel stresses romance, comfort and luxury, but at affordable prices.
The Sleeping Beauty Romantic Weekend Special includes:

A special gift book and plate of fruit and treats, waiting for your arrival in your room
Two overnights, and an elaborate royal breakfast buffet
A rose cocktail, served in a crystal rose petal glass on your first evening
A gourmet 3-course and a 4-course evening meal with a special menu
Admission tickets for the castle (without a tour guide)
Admission tickets for “Tierpark Sababurg”, Europe’s oldest zoo – built in 1571 (without a tour guide)
Hiking through the nearby forest, the “Sababurg’s Wild Forest”, Germany’s first national forest – from 1907 (without a tour guide)
A small goodbye rose souvenir to remember your stay at Sababurg Castle

Pamper your beloved with a Sleeping Beauty 3 or 4 course gourmet meal

Special Package Price for a couple staying in the Castle Bower (Kemenate): 550 €
Special Package Price for a couple staying in the Castle Tower (Turm-Gemach): 750 €
(This includes a room with a four-posted canopy bed and a whirlpool-tub)

You can save 15% if you stay in the castle hotel from Sunday through Thursday.

And for super-romantics, they have extras:

An extra day of Sleeping Beauty Luxury for 220 € in the tower room with the canopy bed, gourmet menu and whirlpool-tub
A bouquet of flowers waiting in the room, or delivered at the breakfast table starting
at 30 €
A private audience with Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming for 95 €
A portable fireplace for your castle chamber (bio-ethanol) for 50 €

Sound irresistibly romantic? To find out more, send an email to Days of Yore Travel,
or the Koseck Family at: dornroeschenschloss@sababurg.de

Address:
Dornroeschenschloss Sababurg
Koseck Family
Im Reinhardswald
34369 Hofgeismar (Sababurg)
Germany
Tel: +49 5671 808 0
Fax: +49 5671 808 200
Website: http://www.sababurg.de