We're truely dedicated to make your hotel
experience as much simple and fun as possible!
All of us at Michel Hotels are committed to providing an exceptionally comfortable and valuable experience for our guests, and we delight in knowing our guests feel right at home with us. We provide the numerous amenities at several convenient locations with the quality and reliability that you would expect from three and four star hotels, along with our staff’s commitment to excellence.
„We look forward to welcoming you and hosting you again and again; welcome to your home away from home!“
Ido Michel
CEO Michel Hotels
Our Mission
Our goal is to give guests a feeling of home in each of our hotels – a „home away from home“ – whether they are traveling for business or pleasure. Quite simply because we know the feeling of home just as well as homesickness. And because we love the challenge of fulfilling individual wishes.
Our Story
More and more Germans prefer holidays at home to long-distance journeys. We have been observing this trend since the company was founded in 2009. And just as guests are discovering the beauty of the country more and more, we have now found a home in almost every corner of Germany.
100 years ago the great-grandparents of our CEO Ido Michel – Leopold and Rose Michel – were on the move already as an enterpriser. Thus the family tradition of generation to generation was also transmitted. These are deep roots Michel Hotels anchor and therefore make unique.
Coincidence turns into serial success
Interview with CEO Ido Michel
Mr Michel, you come from an entrepreneurial family with a long tradition, but you are the first in your family to devote yourself to the hotel industry. What do you like about it?
And how did you come about as a career changer in the hotel business?
It was actually more coincidental than actually planned. Some time ago I had acquired some real estate, including a hotel, which was leased to the operators at the time. When the lease ended after a while, we were faced with the decision of how to proceed with the hotel and decided to run the hotel ourselves. It quickly became clear to me that the Michel Hotel was going to become something bigger.
After more than 10 years as a hotelier: What are the key challenges in 2019?
An exciting topic for us at the moment is the trend towards environmentally conscious and “green” action. In recent years, this has given us the challenge of reacting quickly and providing charging stations for e-vehicles, for example for our conference guests, which we can already score points with some hotels. In addition, the trend is of course also playing into our cards: For example because many people – especially families – decide to discover their home country instead of long-distance travel. With our family-friendly Michel & Friends Hotels, we offer great opportunities.
You grew up in the Mediterranean port city of Haifa and lived in New York and Singapore. What do you like about your adopted country of Germany as a travel destination?
For me, Germany offers an incredible variety that can be reached over very short distances – and often in places where you might not expect it at first. Actually, no matter where you are, you can just sit in the car or train for an hour or two and get off at a place that has potential for that holiday feeling. It doesn’t have to be the classic holiday regions like the Alps or the Baltic Sea. My personal favorite regions are mainly in the south of the country.
The interview with Ido Michel was conducted by Sandra Kathe, a freelance journalist, in June 2019 in Frankfurt-Maintal.
