Smoke a cigar in the cigar lounge with leather floor and a walk in humidor.
Some hotels are simply that, bricks and mortar with a front desk. Maybe a spa if you're lucky. But in Düsseldorf, there's a place called Breidenbacher Hof - less a hotel, and more an idea. That idea, being total opulence, can never disappear. Over the years, Breidenbacher Hof has been destroyed twice, only to rise bigger and bolder each time.
Along the Königsallee in downtown Düsseldorf, Breidenbacher Hof is truly a king of kings in luxury hotel circles. 95 rooms and suites offer sleek black marble bathrooms, bedside remotes to control lighting, air conditioning, and drapes, LCD television, iPod docking stations, and free WiFi.
Feel your body needs to a bit of a reinvention? The Fitness Lounge and Beauty Lounge can give you the tune-up you need. Then again, if it's an overhaul you're after, check in to the Pearl of Aesthetic, the hotel's in-house plastic surgery clinic.
You'll need your nourishment no matter what you're up to in the city, and Brasserie 1808 has you covered with an assortment of seafood, or steaks, prepared on the kitchen's lava-stone grill.