The Hyatt Regency Cologne is an imposing modern building with a grandiose glass entrance portico and views over the River Rhine, cathedral and Cologne's historic centre.

This six storey hotel features 306 air conditioned guestrooms with 36 square metres of space, decorated in understated neutral colours and with contemporary design furnishings. Rooms offer either views of the inner courtyard or the Rhine. All rooms have an interactive television system with pay movies and Internet access, as well as dataports with analogue modem connections. Marble bathrooms feature separate showers and bathtubs. Complimentary fresh fruit and bottles of water are provided.

The Glashaus Restaurant offers contemporary Mediterranean cuisine, particularly Italian, served in an intimate chandelier lit ambience with piano music, modern furnishings and bay windows overlooking the gardens, river and cathedral.

Graugans Restaurant boasts a menu of over 200 rare, vintage, and modern New World wines and specialises in a fusion of traditional French and modern Asian cuisine served in a classical setting with antique furnishings and contemporary Asian artwork. Situated on the banks of the Rhine, the Hyatt Beergarden specialises in regional dishes and beers. For more active guests, Puls Fitness Club provides personal fitness programmes such as aerobics and aqua gym with expert instructors, in a fully equipped health centre with swimming pool, sunbed, Finnish sauna, Roman steam bath and jetted tub, whilst hot stone massages and shiatsu, reflexology and acupressure treatments are offered in the well being centre.

Seminars, meetings and social functions can be organized in the business centre, which houses two computers with Internet access, a lounge connecting to two boardrooms for meetings of up to 10 persons and a host of conference rooms. Parking is available outside the hotel (surcharge).

Local attractions include Cologne Cathedral and the Ludwig Museum of Modern Art (both a kilometre and a half from the hotel) and the Wallraf Richartz Museum of Ancient Art (three and a half kilometres).

Cologne/Bonn Airport (COL) is 20 minutes by car.

This hotel features 305 guestrooms, all of

which include marble bathrooms, bathrobes and complimentary toiletries.