In Jena, the Best Western Hotel Jena, Jena, Germany, is a comfortable hotel with attentive service, spacious rooms and suites with satellite TV, a minibar and free Wi-Fi throughout, a wellness area with a sauna, solarium and beauty studio, and six function rooms for meetings and celebrations.
The city centre and its squares lie close by, with the university, the science museums and the Saale valley within easy reach. Wooded hills and steep vineyard slopes rise on either side of the river, with marked trails to panoramic viewpoints.
Jena is a science city in the Saale valley of Thuringia, long famous for the lenses and glassware of Zeiss and Schott. The world's oldest public planetarium still projects its star shows here, the university where Schiller and Hegel once taught anchors the lively centre, and the round JenTower gives sweeping views over the valley. Chalk hills and vineyard slopes line the river on either side.