Einstein St.Gallen hosts congresses, seminars, hybrid meetings, banquets and weddings for up to 300 people concert-style, 240 at a banquet and 330 at a standing reception in the Einstein Saal. The 4-star Superior hotel stands on Berneggstrasse in the old town of St. Gallen, close to the abbey district, and keeps 113 bedrooms, a congress center and several restaurants under one roof.
Seminars and company events
The Einstein Congress, built in 2009, spreads over the first, third and fourth floors, with a further hall on the seventh floor of the hotel. Thirteen seminar rooms, a boardroom and the Einstein Saal let an organizer run a plenary session with breakout rooms on the same floors. The hotel sets rooms up for hybrid meetings and publishes a separate guide to its technical equipment. Business lunches and dinners can be held in the Bistro St.Gallen, and the bar and cigar lounge suit an evening after the sessions.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel sells wedding packages for at least 50 adults, which include a tasting of the wedding menu, an aperitif and overnight stays for the couple and their guests. Each package can be extended to suit the couple. Receptions take place in the Einstein Saal and on the fourth floor, and a team of three wedding planners follows each event. Banquets and group celebrations are booked through the same team.
Rooms and capacities
The Einstein Saal, 342 square meters on the first floor, takes 150 in a plenary layout, 240 at a banquet and 300 concert-style. On the third floor, Spisegg, Friedegg and Buchegg combine into a 224-square-meter room for 170 concert-style or 140 at a banquet. On the fourth floor, Rosenberg and Wienerberg combine into 160 square meters for 120 concert-style or 80 at a banquet. The Berneggsaal on the seventh floor, 132 square meters lit by skylights, takes 100 concert-style or 72 at a banquet. The Turmzimmer on the fifth floor seats 32. Smaller rooms such as Fröhlichsegg, Liebegg and Ringelberg take 35 concert-style, and the Singenberg boardroom covers 64 square meters. Each congress foyer takes 80 at a banquet.
Accommodation
The hotel has 113 rooms, from Economy and Comfort to Superior rooms, junior suites, a Ladies Floor, the Textilland Junior Suite and the Einstein Suite, so a seminar group and its speakers stay in the same building as the meeting rooms.
Catering
Einstein Gourmet holds two Michelin stars and 18 GaultMillau points. The Bistro St.Gallen serves business lunches and dinners, the Weinkeller hosts wine tastings, and the Einstein Bar and the Cigar Lounge complete the offer.
History and setting
The building dates from 1830, when Sabina Dorothea Allgäuer built a textile finishing works here. In 1884 the New York embroidery manufacturer Isaak D. Einstein opened a branch in the house, converted by architect Karl August Hiller, and the complex was extended in 1886 and 1907. St. Gallen textile manufacturer Max Kriemler bought it in 1978 and opened it as a hotel in 1983. A neighboring building added 48 rooms around 2003, and the hotel was classified 4-star Superior in 2012.
Getting there
The hotel is at Berneggstrasse 2, about three minutes from St. Gallen railway station, which has direct trains to Zurich and its airport.
