Söl'ring Hof

Söl’ring Hof is a small five-star hotel under a thatched roof, set directly on the dune at Rantum, one of the quietest corners of Sylt. With only 15 rooms, maisonettes and suites, the house its hosts describe as a country house by the sea feels more like a private home than a hotel. It belongs to the Hommage Luxury Hotels Collection.

Interiors take a modern Frisian line with Nordic restraint — dark woods, pale fabrics, warm lighting and very little ornament — and every room is named after a figure from the island’s history and folklore, from the merman Ekke Nekkepenn to the painter Andreas Dirks. The real draw is the kitchen: the hotel’s gourmet restaurant, with its open kitchen, has a reputation well beyond Sylt, and the wine cellar holds more than a thousand references. In the quieter months the whole hotel can be taken over exclusively for a private celebration or meeting.

The island is best explored on foot and by bike: the hotel suggests walks along the beach and across the tidal flats, e-bike rides across the island and rounds on the island’s golf courses, and there is a fitness room in the house. The culinary programme is a reason to come in itself — cooking courses in the restaurant kitchen devoted to fish, seafood, game or truffles, excursions to the salt marshes, the herb garden and the oyster beds on the Wadden Sea side, and private wine and port tastings with the hotel’s sommelière.