Hotel Weidenhof
Kitchenette apartments five minutes from AquaMagis
About this hotel
Hotel Weidenhof sits in central Plettenberg, close enough to AquaMagis that a five-minute taxi covers the whole run out to the water park gates, which keeps a family's day from being swallowed by travel between the pools and the room. The apartment-style units, with their own kitchenette, set this three-star hotel apart from most other Sauerland guesthouses around AquaMagis, which stick to standard doubles: a toddler's early lunch or a simple pasta dinner after a long pool day happens in the room rather than in a search for an open restaurant in a small town with limited evening options. Free parking and pet-friendly rooms round out the practical side, while the on-site bistro and small movie theatre give the property its own evening pull for the nights nobody wants to leave after a full AquaMagis day. The kitchenette apartment is the detail worth booking around.
- Apartment-style kitchenette units
- Bistro and movie theatre on-site
- Free parking, pet-friendly
- Five minutes from AquaMagis
Our take
Hotel Weidenhof suits a family staying several nights near AquaMagis who wants a kitchenette for simple meals and a genuinely short taxi to the pools, especially a group with a toddler on a nap schedule that a longer transfer would wreck. It suits less well a couple or a family after resort-style extras, since this is a straightforward town hotel with a bistro and a small cinema, not a water park property with pools of its own.
- ✓Request the apartment-style kitchenette room specifically when you book, since standard doubles here do not include one.
- ✓Reserve well ahead of North Rhine-Westphalia school holidays, when Plettenberg's family-suited rooms sell out first.
- ✓Budget a five-minute taxi each way to AquaMagis rather than assuming the water park is walkable from the hotel.
Why we love it
- Kitchenette apartments rare among Sauerland guesthouses
- Five-minute taxi to AquaMagis water park
- On-site bistro and small movie theatre
- Pet-friendly rooms with free parking
Why guests love itWe took the apartment unit for a week and the kitchenette earned its keep fast: a toddler who will not sit through a restaurant meal got fed on our schedule, not a waiter's. The five-minute taxi to AquaMagis meant we could do a short evening swim without the usual production, and the bistro downstairs covered the one night everyone was too tired after the pools to think about going anywhere else in Plettenberg.