The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg, French:Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, German: Großherzogtum Luxemburg), is a landlocked country in the Benelux bordered by Belgium, France and Germany, lying at the crossroad of Germanic and Latin cultures. It is the only Grand Duchy in the world and is the second-smallest of the European Union member states.

With a successful steel, finance and high technology industry, a strategic location at the heart of Western Europe, more natural beauty than you might expect given its size, and as one of the top 3 richest countries in the world, Luxembourg enjoys a very high standard of living.

Thanks to the heavy banking and EU presence in the city, hotels in central Luxembourg are quite expensive, although there is a good youth hostel. It may be more cost-effective to stay across the border in eg. Trier and “commute” into Luxembourg, as a day-ticket valid for a return trip and free run of the entire country is only €8.40.

A number of smaller hotels in Luxembourg, mostly in the countryside but including a few in the city, have banded together at hotels.