Congresses, conferences, banquets and weddings for up to 585 guests in one room can be held at Welcome Kongresshotel Bamberg, on the Regnitz river next to the Konzert- und Kongresshalle and about 300 m from Bamberg's UNESCO-listed old town. The hotel has 13 daylight, air-conditioned meeting rooms, which it states can host up to 1,400 people in total, along with 167 rooms and 4 suites.
Seminars and company events
As its name says, the hotel is set up for meetings. Half-day and full-day packages include a screen, a pinboard and a flipchart in the room. Four of the large rooms can be entered by car, which helps with product launches, vehicle presentations and exhibition builds. When a programme outgrows the hotel, the nearby Konzert- und Kongresshalle can provide more rooms on request, and the Welcome Hotel Residenzschloss Bamberg across the street adds further space. For the evening, the hotel suggests activities in town: a beer tasting tour, a themed guided walk of about 90 minutes and a high ropes course of about four hours.
Weddings and receptions
The ballroom is offered for weddings, and the hotel names weddings among the events it hosts. With 171 rooms and suites under the same roof, guests can stay where the party takes place, and the old town is close enough for photographs on foot.
Rooms and capacities
The ballroom, made of rooms K4, K5, K6 and K7, covers 760 m² and takes up to 585 guests. Each pair, K4 and K5 or K6 and K7, forms a 350 m² room for up to 270. Individually, Kaiserin Kunigunde (K5) and Clemens II (K6) cover 180 m² for up to 140, and Kaiser Heinrich II (K4) and Otto I (K7) cover 170 m² for up to 130. These four rooms are drive-in. Tillmann Riemenschneider (K2) and Veit Stoß (K3) cover 120 m² for up to 90 each, with 4.2 m ceilings. Ferdinand Tietz (K9) takes 70, Jacopo Tintoretto (K8) 60 and E.T.A. Hoffmann (K1) 20. Willi Messerschmidt (K10), Georg Simon Ohm (K11) and Christoph Clavius (K12) take 30 each. K14, on the first floor without a lift, seats 10 around a block table and has a lounge corner for 15.
Accommodation
The hotel has 167 rooms and 4 suites, so a congress can house its delegates under the same roof as the plenary.
Catering
The hotel runs its own food service. Restaurant Regnitz serves breakfast, Bistro Plückers serves lunch and dinner and is the place for evening drinks, and there is a beer garden. Conference breaks and banquets are handled in-house.
History and setting
The hotel stands on the banks of the Regnitz, beside Bamberg's concert and congress hall, a few minutes on foot from the old town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. After sessions, delegates have the historic center, its breweries and the river at the door.
Getting there
The address is Mußstraße 7, 96047 Bamberg. An underground car park sits directly at the hotel, for a fee. Bamberg station is on the ICE line between Munich, Nuremberg and Berlin; ask the hotel for the walking time from the station.
