Frequently asked questions

The digital platform for food, dining and lifestyle in Bad Soden am Taunus — made by the team behind the Bad Sodener Zeitung. It brings together the town's places to eat and drink, the stories behind them and the dates worth noting.

No. BS2life is free for guests and needs no account. There is no paywall in front of any article.

Use the platform page. It filters on three levels: what you feel like (the cuisine), what kind of place it should be (café, restaurant, bar and more) and what matters to you (step-free access, outdoor seating, open right now, dogs welcome and others). Everything combines, and the map shows you where the matches are.

They come from the businesses themselves — every partner maintains their hours in the partner portal and can change them at short notice, even for a single day. The „open right now“ filter works them out live, so you see who is open at this moment. It still comes with no guarantee: a closing day due to illness is written down nowhere. If you have a long way to come, it is worth asking first.

Because we are only just starting out. BS2life launches with its first partners and more follow step by step. If a place is missing, write to erleben@bs2life.de — or mention it to the landlord on your next visit. Either helps us along.

Yes, it is called „Genuss-News“ and is in preparation. Sign-ups are recorded with a timestamp, but nothing is being sent yet. When it launches you will first receive an email asking you to confirm. Until then you will hear nothing from us.

Yes. We are starting with our first partners and will build the platform up step by step — more businesses, more stories, more dates. It is worth dropping in again.

Write to erleben@bs2life.de. That goes for wrong opening hours as much as for a typo in an article. We follow up on every report.

Get in touch and we will look together at what suits your business. We set up your profile and fill it with what we already know about you — you correct and add before it goes live.

We discuss that in person. No two businesses are alike: a café with three tables needs something different from an inn with a function room. So we quote no flat rate here and sit down with you instead.

No. Hardly any business has print-ready shots in a drawer, and poor photos do more harm than good. Let us know and we will come by and photograph your place. Until then your profile goes online with what there is — you can add to it at any time.

Mostly it depends on how quickly your material reaches us. Once logo, photos, opening hours and contact details are in, we usually set up the profile within a week. You then read it through at your leisure — it goes live only when you are happy with it.

Your main photo and logo, a text about your house, opening hours, your menu and further buttons such as table reservation, a gallery, the features people search by, contact details and a map. Whatever you leave empty simply does not appear — there are no empty boxes.

You do, in the partner portal. You get an account and can change your profile at any time. So that nothing unchecked goes online, your changes pass through our editorial team and appear once approved. Equally, you can reach your opening hours without us when something changes at short notice.

Many businesses do well with the profile alone at first — it is a complete calling card online. If you need more than that, from your own website to a printed menu, talk to us. We do that too.