The history of Ry Park Hotel

The town’s first house was the old Inn. In 1870, farmer Thomas Nielsen from Siim sold the first building site to Søren Sørensen and wife Sofie Sørensen. The price was 240 Rigsdalere, the Danish currency at the time.
Sørensen immediately put up a building, opened a grocery store and applied for a license to keep an inn. But the license was a long time coming, and when train workers poured in, Sørensen decided to start business without it.

After some time he had to close, for the innkeeper in Gl. Rye, who had also applied, reported his competitor to the authorities. The license was badly missed when the day of Ry Market rolled around, and Sørensen had to turn down many guests during the morning hours. But when evening came Sørensen plucked up courage and decided to accept the many guests with the explanation that the license had finally arrived during the day. The inn quickly filled with merry market patrons, and from that day Sørensen kept his business open with no further fuzz. Later on the license finally came.

The fire at the inn on the 22 February 1894 was a significant event in the town’s history.  Later visitors to the town often heard the sentence, ‘It was the same year as’ or ‘it was the year after the fire at the Inn’. The significance of the event was boosted by the content of Mrs. Sørensen’s cellar: a large stock of wine and barrels of rum and cognac. And there was no shortage of people trying to ‘save’ the precious drops during the fire.

The morning after the fire people turned up in strange places, and full wine bottles were found in shrubs and on lawns in the time following the event. In the wake of the fire a new, more modern Inn was built and a temperance society was founded.

Ry Park Hotel today

A lot has happened at Ry Park Hotel since the start in 1894. Ry Park Hotel is now a cosy three star hotel and four star conference centre, built in commune with its surroundings and in perfect harmony with Ry’s idyllic old town design.

The older part has been refurbished, and today we offer guest not only rooms but also an atmospheric restaurant, function/conference facilities and a bar and café. In connection with the old hotel there is an extension from 1987 with more function/conference facilities, group rooms, a swimming pool and, of course, hotel rooms.
 
In addition to this is Motel Ryhave, only 100 metres from the main building, offering lake view, patio and a large garden with access to Lake Mossø. Apart from rooms the motel also has function/conference facilities and group rooms.

Today, Ry Park Hotel and Motel Ryhave consist of 76 Standard and Standard+ rooms, modern and cosy restaurant and café with the old coal-fired stove from the days of Sørensen. The locations also feature function and conference facilities with the capacity of 1 to 350 people, swimming pool, sauna, solarium, billiards cellar, atmospheric patio, canoes and a playground for the next generation of hotel patrons.