Hotel Louis C. Jacob

Name: Hotel Louis C. Jacob
Address: Hamburg, DE

Four-star · From $350 per nightAny mandatory hotel fees are shown before you confirm.

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Elbchaussee & Nienstedten · Hamburg

A sense of the place

Hotel Louis C. Jacob — suite — The Suite with River View at the Louis C. Jacob: a sitting room under a sloped white ceiling with cream bouclé armchairs and an oval ottoman before tall windows over the Elbe and a passing ship, a striped sofa with pink cushions, a framed drawing, and the bedroom through an open door; nobody in frame — © Louis C. Jacob

Hotel Louis C. Jacob — restaurant — Jacobs Restaurant at the Louis C. Jacob seen through open double doors: tables laid in white around a round centre table with small green arrangements, crystal chandeliers reflected in mirrored panels, and tall French windows with olive curtains onto the green of the garden; nobody in frame — © Louis C. Jacob

Hotel Louis C. Jacob — lobby — The Elbsalon of the Louis C. Jacob set for a banquet: round tables in white with slip-covered chairs and pink flowers on a herringbone parquet, crystal ceiling lights in a gilded cove, and tall windows with red curtains over the trees and the Elbe; nobody in frame — © Louis C. Jacob

Why it's in the collection

Because the historical hotel on the Elbchaussee is the best of two worlds, an immaculately preserved Hanseatic house that has absorbed the lessons of boutique-influenced luxury and modernized subtly, with a lovely pair of buildings on either side of the riverside drive, an art collection that would fill a small museum and rooms and suites facing the Elbe or the inner garden — and the house is listed at exactly the tier it holds.

On the Elbchaussee at Nienstedten, above the Elbe, west of the city; an independent house.
Rooms and suites over the river or the garden; the art collection; the terrace under the lime trees; the restaurant.
Two MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 selection; holds four-star standing.

The neighborhood

Morning over Elbchaussee & Nienstedten

Elbchaussee & Nienstedten

The riverside drive west of the city, lined with merchants' villas above the Elbe. Along it lie the ferry at Teufelsbrück and the Jenisch park, then the beach and stairways of Blankenese at the end of the road.