4 John Gottschalk - a week ago
Didn't spend much time in the hotel as we were mostly at Spiel Essen. Rooms were clean, neat and good quality, with good showers. Hotel was very quiet. When we asked to hold onto our many bags of boardgames it was no problem.
We were considering playing boardgames in the lobby, but the atmosphere and music weren't very good for it and that seemed to have a concensus, as we didn't see anyone else playing here.
To Messe Essen there's an easy bus, and there's one to the station as well. Only late at night there isn't any direct public transit back from the center.