Throughout its history the Appinger Hotel was a family business. In the early Appinger pension, Helene Appinger, who was a distinguished cook, took care of catering for the guests. Her older sister Ernestine, a trained nurse, was responsible for maintaining the rooms, the garden and the laundry. Their brother Gottlob helped them concerning commercial matters. Once the pension became too small the family decided to rebuild the house and expand it into a hotel.

Swiss architect Mueller, a friend of the family who also resided on Mount Carmel, designed the reconstruction plan. In the late 1920s the new hotel with its fifty rooms was inaugurated. Later it was run by Gottlob’s nephew, a vocational school teacher from Stuttgart. He employed two German cooks, kitchen assistants, chambermaids and Arab waiters. Famous guests of the hotel were members of a British Royal Commission (the Peel Commission, headed by Earl Peel), who came to Palestine in order to investigate the reasons behind the Arab uprising in 1936. The hotel also played an important role in the family members’ individual history.

In 1937 Gottlob’s daughter Maria (Marielle) fell in love with the hotel manager Otto Mehner, whom she followed to Stuttgart where they got married and had seven children. During World War II the family had to leave Haifa. Ernestine Appinger, along with other Germans, was detained in St. Charles Hospice, Jerusalem. When the war ended she decided to stay in Jerusalem and continued to live in the Catholic hospice. After a serious accident in the hospice’s garden she was brought to St. Charles Hospice in Nazareth, where she died in the late 60s. Gottlob Appinger and his wife Katharina settled in Dresden as pensioners. Helene Appinger moved to the German Democratic Republic as well and lived there until 1974. From 1948 to 1978 the hotel was run as a hotel by an Israeli family who purchased the building, and was later rented out as an Old Aged Home until 2005.

In 2006, “Morovati Properties Ltd.” purchased the Appinger Hotel, and over two years completely renovated it into a boutique hotel offering 40 luxurious rooms and mini-suites of the highest design standards. The renovations and redesign were supervised and carried out by the Avi Agajany Hotel Management Company (A.A. Hotels Ltd.) and the hotel was renamed The Colony Hotel Haifa due to its spectacular location in the German Colony.

For Reservation: +972-4-8513344
Fax: +972-4-8513366
e-mail: info@colony-hotel.co.il

24-hour business center services at colony hotel meet the needs of busy business guests

The stay in our hotel includes a full Israeli breakfast. The lobby bar offers drinks of all kinds (coffee, tea, soft drinks, wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages 24 hours a day). You can relax after your treatment in our spa room in the hotel gardens with a drink from the lobby bar. The hotel lobby also offers guests free internet connection either with their own personal laptop or using the internet connection in all rooms.

Our reception staff will be glad to reserve guests tours to any part of Israel. Hotel guests can give their laundry and receive it washed and ironed the following day. There is also the possibility of using a “take away” service from a large selection of Haifa restaurants.

Please do not hesitate to call us for any questions about the hotel services.

For Reservation: +972-4-8513344 Fax: +972-4-8513366 info@colony-hotel.co.il