Hotel Watthalden in Ettlingen offers six meeting rooms in and beside a villa that is more than 200 years old, with an in-house brasserie and bedrooms for residential meetings. It is an owner-run private hotel at the foot of the Black Forest, a few minutes from Karlsruhe, and it is aimed at business travelers, meeting groups and private guests.
Seminars and company events
The six meeting rooms range from 20 to 64 square meters. Each room comes with a projector and screen, a flipchart and pinboard, a facilitation case with paper and pens, and Wi-Fi on a fiber connection. The hotel sells flexible half-day and full-day packages that are adapted to the group, with personal support from an event office. Coffee breaks with snacks, a fingerfood selection and unlimited water, juice spritzers and soft drinks in the room are part of the package. The group can take a lunch or an after-work dinner in Watt's Brasserie, which adjoins the hotel. The hotel describes itself as a Top250 meeting hotel and says the green surroundings help concentration.
Weddings and receptions
The official pages we read present the hotel for business meetings and for private guests, and they do not offer weddings as a product. The event office says it also plans individually designed events, so ask what is possible before you plan a private celebration.
Rooms and capacities
The Weiße Dame measures 60 square meters with a 4 meter ceiling, on the first floor of the courtyard building. The Salon Metternich, on the first floor of the villa, measures 64 square meters with a 6 meter ceiling. The Westflügel and the Ostflügel, also in the villa, each measure 35 square meters. The Tempele has 21 square meters and the Weißes Häusle 20 square meters, both in the courtyard building. The hotel does not give seating capacities on the page we read, but offers a downloadable meeting brochure. The meeting rooms are in an old villa and are not fully accessible for people with reduced mobility.
Accommodation
Guests stay in modern rooms with a clear style. The hotel lists the double rooms Alb, Vogelsang and Comfort, an apartment and a fitness area. A quality breakfast is served. The number of bedrooms is not stated on the pages we read.
Catering
Watt's Brasserie occupies the guest house of the historic Villa Watthalden and serves Mediterranean and regional cooking. The kitchen buys many ingredients from Ettlingen and its surroundings, and the brasserie has an inner courtyard that the hotel calls the most beautiful in the Alb valley.
History and setting
The hotel stands in the Watthalden park in Ettlingen, in the Alb valley, at the foot of the Black Forest. The meeting rooms are in the old villa itself. The hotel is the partner hotel of the Ettlingen Palace Festival.
Getting there
The address is Pforzheimer Straße 67a, 76275 Ettlingen. The hotel has its own underground garage, is connected to public transport and lies close to the A5 motorway. Karlsruhe is a few minutes away.
