In the Thuringian countryside near the three hilltop castles of the 'Drei Gleichen', the Best Western Hotel Erfurt-Apfelstaedt in Apfelstadt, Germany, is a comfortable hotel with cosy rooms, free Wi-Fi, a restaurant with a terrace, a lobby bar, and a leisure area with a sauna and gym. Four meeting rooms handle seminars and events, the restaurant terrace makes a sunny lunch stop, and parking sits right at the door. The motorways are close, putting the Thuringian capital of Erfurt and its historical center about twenty minutes away by car. Apfelstadt makes a handy base in the green heart of Thuringia, ringed by storied old towns. The castle landscape of the 'Drei Gleichen' crowns the nearby hills, Erfurt brims with an old centre and its shop-lined bridge, and Eisenach, Gotha, Weimar and Arnstadt add fortresses, palaces and the footsteps of Bach and Goethe. Wooded ridges of the Thuringian Forest rise to the south.