Hotel Wedina

An appealing and rather stylish hotel with artsy and literary leanings, located seconds from both the Lange Reihe and the Außenalster lake. The original hotel is comprised of four buildings, each with its own colour and theme: Yellow (turn-of-the-century structure with mid-19th Biedemeier-style furnishings); Blue (cool, smart, elegant); Green (concrete, glass, wood, granite); and Red (modern and woody following a 2016 rethink). A unique and very tasteful Hamburg hotel that's somewhere between budget and fancy. Owned by Felix Schlatter, who also owns the nearby and previously gay-famous four-room ex-Galerie-Hotel (formerly Galerie Hotel Sarah Petersen), which reopened in 2014 following major renovations and which, since 2016, is referred to as the Pink House. Using half a million euros donated by the City of Hamburg, this romantic 1790 townhouse on the Lange Reihe was restored in the early 1990s and remains singular among the city's hotels, though is now officially part of the Wedina. You don't get more gay-friendly than the location. With just four available rooms, it surely qualifies as boutique, though the hotel identifies itself more as a 'Garni' (German for inn or bed and breakfast). The hotel received a major renovation and upgrade in 2014, with check-in and breakfast at Gurlittstraße 23.