Landhotel Albers runs day and residential seminars, training sessions and workshops for groups of 10 to 30 people, with two meeting rooms in a separate seminar house for up to 50 people in all and 37 bedrooms for participants. The three-star superior country hotel is in Bödefeld, a village in the municipality of Schmallenberg in the Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, and has been owned by the Albers family for nearly 200 years.
Seminars and company events
Meetings take place in the Henken-Haus, a building across from the main hotel that the family bought and fitted out for seminars. Working there keeps a training group apart from the restaurant and the holiday guests, while meals and bedrooms stay a few steps away. The hotel sells two all-inclusive day rates, both also available as half days. Each includes the meeting room, an interactive whiteboard, a projector, a flipchart, a pinboard, a moderator case, pens and pads, WiFi, a morning and an afternoon coffee break and a two-course lunch with a choice of meat, fish or vegetarian main course. The higher rate adds unlimited water and apple juice in the room and fruit or vegetable sticks at the morning break. These rates are sold for groups of 10 to 30 people; a smaller group pays room hire on top. Optional side programs can be booked, and the hiking and cycling trails around the village suit an afternoon outdoors.
Rooms and capacities
Buchhagen measures 53 m², with a ceiling height of 2.80 m, on the ground floor. It holds 20 in a U-shape, 26 in parliament style and 30 in a circle of chairs. Habichtscheidt is larger at 65 m², 11.56 by 5.40 m, with a 2.65 m ceiling, also on the ground floor. It holds 18 in a U-shape or in parliament style and 20 in a circle. Both rooms are carpeted, can be arranged to suit the format and have display boards and a projection screen.
Accommodation
The hotel has 37 rooms available for seminar guests: single and double rooms in the Buchhagen and Habichtscheidt categories, with or without a balcony, family rooms named Kreuzberg and Hunau, and two holiday apartments. Seminar overnight stays are sold together with a day rate, from 10 rooms. Breakfast buffet, bathrobe and sauna towel, the indoor pool, the sauna, the fitness room, WiFi and the local SauerlandCard are included.
Catering
The restaurant serves regional products, Sauerland dishes and international cooking, with a traditional tavern room, a bar and a terrace. Seminar groups can add a three-course dinner, a buffet with three main courses or a hearty Sauerland supper buffet.
History and setting
The family chronicle starts with an inscription dated July 5, 1827, on the door beam of the original inn, which the family first ran alongside its farm. Overnight guests arrived from 1912, a new guest house with about 50 beds followed in the 1970s, and a further extension came in the mid-1980s. Hermann-Josef Albers bought the Henken-Haus when he took over the hotel, which opened it to company seminars. Ski slopes, cross-country trails and hiking paths start at the door.
Getting there
The address is Graf-Gottfried-Straße 2 in Schmallenberg-Bödefeld. Parking is available on site, subject to availability.
