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Adam Hewitt -
4 years ago
It doesn’t look amazing from the outside, with an understated frontage on a residential street. But inside the rooms are well-decorated. Not large, but perfectly comfortable. Staff are friendly and English-speaking, and were able to check us in earlier than their normal time and happily provided non-feather pillows for an allergy.
Location is good, about a 5-minute walk to the main shopping streets and nearest Underground station, 10-minute walk to a mainline station serving the airport (about a 15-minute journey, €2.70 each in Dec 2017), and 15-minute walk to the Altstadt/Old Town and nearby tourist attractions (it took us longer because of the snow, ice and Christmas crowds). Lots of public transport options if you don’t want to walk it though.
Good German restaurants and bars within 5 minutes of the hotel.
Breakfast was a highlight – extensive range of self-serve buffet food from around Europe, delicious ingredients, nicely presented, and some hot options too. For the busy Christmas period when the hotel was sold out, they were serving it from 7am right through to 11am.
The room facilities could do with a bit of love – some bulbs in the ceiling fitting were dead, our refrigerator was not plugged in, its cord did not reach any visible socket, and when we did manage to plug it in (by stretching it taught against the room’s main door, so only a short-term solution!), the fridge did not work.
Some of the rooms are in an annexe across the street from the main entrance to the hotel, ours included, but this was not a problem, beyond having to put on a coat to get to breakfast!
Overall, a recommended hotel for a city break to Düsseldorf.