As an airline employee, I have had the opportunity to visit some of the best vacation spots in the World along with their finest hotels. Out of all of the places I have been in the world, the Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg is the best. The hotel is definitely not for the leisure family traveler with children, but more for couples looking for an exciting weekend getaway. The rooms are fabulous and come with complimentary mini bar service and fruit service which is replenished on a daily basis. The rooms feature goose down comforters and the room steward turns down your bed each evening and accompanies it with a chocolate mint. The bathrooms are decorated in marble, have a huge soaking tub and complimentary use of plush & terry cloth robes, plus slippers. The indoor pool area is magnificent and much of the pool area is trimmed in gold. The pool itself is very refreshing with a waterfall at one end to add to the elegance. The pool area also features a hot tub, which is set off to the side. Because of the elegance of this hotel, there are seperate elevators to access the pool so that guests do not walk through the lobby in their swimming attire. Bergisch Gladbach is a beautiful little town not too far from Cologne (Koln) which offers some great little Italian restaurants just down the hill from the hotel. My advice: visit in February and you might be lucky enough to get a dusting of snow on the hotel which provides for a magnificent backdrop!