Hold your conferences close to nature in the Capital of Culture 2010
All the Ruhr Area’s creative forces will be bundled in 2010 to present programmes and projects enabling visitors to directly experience the creative transformation of an industrial region into a metropolis of culture. Outstanding highlights, such as the RuhrTriennale, the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and the Recklinghausen Ruhr festival, as well as a multitude of museums, theatres and architectural monuments already testify to the cultural quality of the “Black Country” today. The Youth Hostel is located in the southern part of the city of Essen, in a woodland area above Lake Baldeney. Thanks to extensive modernization work in 2008, all rooms now have their own shower and toilet and are therefore even more attractive for conference guests. A bistro and a sun patio invite guests to relax.
Service
Opening hours: 7 a.m. to midnight • Reception hours: 7.30 a.m. to 10 p.m. • Conference consulting • The Hostel team will be happy to assists you with planning your leisure activities • In cooperation with our partner Insider Traveller we offer outdoor training especially for conference guests.
Catering
The catering team sets great store by a balanced cuisine with a variety of salads of the season. Bread and rolls are sourced directly from a bakery specializing in wholemeal products. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served buffet-style.
On request: Additional conference drinks and fruit • Afternoon coffee with pastries • Snacks • Barbecue nights • Lunch packs.
Meal times can be adjusted to fit in with your conference schedule. The YH team will be happy to take any special catering requirements into account when planning your event.
Conference package 2009/10
Overnight events
€ 45.00 (20 or more participants) per person per day

Included: 1 night in dorm rooms, seminar leaders in single rooms • Bed linen • Breakfast, lunch and dinner • Fruit as a conference snack • Coffee/ tea and cold conference drinks • 1 conference room of appropriate size • Use of all conference equipment (consumable supplies and data projector excepted)
Individual conference arrangements
Our team will be happy to prepare individual quotes tailor-made to suit your event, as the possibilities for organizing your individual conference offer are many and varied. Simple and affordable: our “all inclusive“ conference package for 20 or more participants at a fair price. Of course we also have additional conference rooms available, the daily rent is € 50.00 per room.
Rooms and prices
Conference equipment
  • Data projector
  • TV set
  • Flipchart
  • Screen
  • Metaplan board
  • Overhead projector
  • DVD player
  • Video recorder
  • Copying machine
  • Fax machine
  • Piano
  • Portable stereo system
  • Internet connection in all conference rooms