My first experience at Lanserhof Sylt left me, glowing, full of energy and already thinking about when I was going to book my second stay.
Boasting the largest thatched roof in Europe, it floats heavily over a curved glass facade and does its best (despite its scale) to blend in with the traditional Frisian houses you pass on the way, with their highly pitched thatched roofs and low-bricked areas. The health resort occupies 20,000 square metres and was designed by Dusseldorf-based architect Christoph Ingenhoven. As soon as I arrived, entering through a subterranean drop off area and carpark with nine metre ceilings, I was welcomed with a hot towel and whisked to my room, first stopping to admire the staircase cum atrium spanning the resort’s five storeys.
