See Park Janssen hosts seminars, training days and congresses for groups of five up to 400 people, along with banquets, company parties and lakeside weddings. The four-star hotel stands in a park with a pond and a lake on Danziger Straße in Geldern, a town on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, and its 98 bedrooms let most groups sleep where they meet.
Seminars and company events
Meetings are the core business here: the hotel says it runs more than 1,200 meetings and seminars a year. Rooms are air-conditioned, with LED lighting that can change color and large windows for daylight. In good weather, groups can take a work session outside by the lake. Two day packages, Klassik am Niederrhein and Vital am Niederrhein, cover a room with Wi-Fi, a screen or projector, a flipchart, two pinboards and a moderator case, two breaks with pastries and snacks, coffee all day, and lunch as a buffet or a three-course menu. Overnight stays are added separately and include breakfast, dinner and use of the pool, saunas and fitness area. A lectern or a sound system can be hired on top.
For the hours after the agenda, the hotel lists ten team activities: an outdoor team challenge, raft building for 4 to 50 people, archery, bowling, a golf taster course with a partner club, Segway tours, guided bike rides through the Lower Rhine countryside and canoe trips on the Niers river, plus short fitness and stress-relief sessions.
Weddings and receptions
Couples can hold a civil or a free ceremony outdoors at the Pavillon on the lakeshore, which takes up to 40 guests. The reception then moves to the Bankett-Raum am See, for 10 to 80 guests with a view over the pond and lake, or to Saal Gelderland for larger parties. The hotel reserves the rooms and staff for one group per event. Family celebrations and company parties use the same spaces.
Rooms and capacities
Saal Gelderland, with a 5 m ceiling, divides into three sections. Sections I and II each cover 101 m² and seat 96 in rows; section III covers 135 m² and seats 110. Joined with its foyer, the hall reaches 540 m² for 300 in rows or at banquet tables. A second group of rooms with 3 m ceilings includes Finkenhorst (80.6 m², 70 in rows), Schloß Haag (51.2 m²), Mühlenturm (64 m²), Zur Boeckelt (66.7 m², 50 in rows) and Beerenbrouck (34.2 m², 24 in rows). Finkenhorst, Schloß Haag and Mühlenturm combine into one 208.6 m² room for 140 in rows or 120 at dinner.
Accommodation
The 98 bedrooms come in three types, Standard, Standard on the lake side and Panorama, each as a single or a double. Overnight guests can use the spa, which the hotel puts at more than 8,000 m² with seven saunas, a panorama pool, a fitness area, massages and beauty treatments.
Catering
The in-house kitchen prepares menus and buffets for meetings and banquets, from festive to rustic, and adapts them to each event. Seminar dinners have three courses from Sunday to Thursday and four on Friday and Saturday, with a fish, meat or vegetarian main. Larger groups may be served a buffet instead. The hotel also runs a catering and party service for events elsewhere.
Getting there
Geldern lies in the Lower Rhine countryside, close to the Dutch border. Seminar guests park for free at the hotel. Weeze Airport and Düsseldorf Airport are the nearest airports; check travel times with the hotel.
