Hotel Minerva

This is a fantastic hotel, the owners are so friendly and accommodating, they make you feel right at home. Highly recommended. The hotel has old time feel and charm, with rooms that have all modern facilities Location is perfect.

Cozy and charming, only drawback was the non existing air-condition. It is an old building though, so that was not to be expected. The staff was very nice and the breakfast had a great variety (vegan too)

Such a lovely stay at the charming Hotel Minerva! Comfortable bed and excellent shower after a long travel day. The breakfast was very good with lots of variety. Everyone I encountered was very helpful! Will definitely stay here on my travels to Freiburg again.

Very friendly and helpful staff, good breakfast, all very nice. I stay there when I’m in Freiburg and love the location.|The only negative thing to say is that the towels were a little „tired“ this time and could use an upgrade.

Around 8 minutes walk from the station, there are some restaurants in the same street, so you will have options to eat outside, there's a restaurant owned by a Bangladeshi on the same street, so if you are craving for Bangladeshi or indian food, staying here is also a good option. If you arrive late, you have to dial at the gate and there will be someone responding to you and guide you to collect the key from a vault placed on the outside of the gate, just remember it's not a typical commercial hotel that we are used to seeing. Rather most likely managed personally by the owner. Rooms are nice and toilet clean with all necessary amenities. Breakfast is not international rather very local, so for someone from outside Europe, it can be challenging.

Cozy, clean room with elevator access. Good service from the host upon both check-in and checkout. He was helpful in guiding us to the center of the city and to a dinner house. He made suggestions on where to buy petrol. Maid on our floor was also friendly, made eye contact and spoke to us.

A delightful find! The staff was friendly and attentive. The breakfast was wonderful! Rooms were clean and beds were comfortable. The service was better than a recent four star hotel we stayed in. It is a quiet location, but close to everything in the old city center. The parking garage (and train station) are very close and many restaurants near by.

Well situated hotel between the old town and the train station. The building is old however and the sound travels well between rooms be it from inside or outside.

If you want to SLEEP IN AN OVEN, stay here! Honestly, you should avoid this hotel at all costs if the temperature is at 85 F (29.5 C) or above. On the day we stayed, it was 95 F, and the room was around 110 F. Seriously, 110 F (43.35 C). And because of the walls are stone, they radiate the heat back into the room all night long, so even with the windows open, it never cooled down. Oh, and did I mention that there was no fan for the room...? That's right, no fan in a room, because the owner/manager was too cheap to buy enough fans for all his guests, so only the early guests got fans. Seriously? At $200 USD per night, you'd think the clown could spring for enough fans for all his guests. But that's the issue when the manager is also the owner - he's more interested in his profits/income than he is in the comfort and the safety of his guests. When we went down in the morning to complain about the unsafe conditions, he couldn't have cared less; no concern, no apology, no responsibility - he just wanted to be paid and for us to go away. Look - if you don't believe me, do a search for other similar reviews. This place get's lots of good reviews, because it's a cute hotel in a good location, with a mostly friendly and helpful staff. Just avoid it in the hot summer months, which are getting hotter and hotter. Unless, of course, you like sleeping in an oven.

We chose this hotel from the web, based on being close to the old part of town and to the train station. The hotel and the staff yielded up much more than those basics. The room was very clean and bright, and the door was extra thick which might be a noise reduction measure. The hotel breakfast is a delight, with a wide range of heart-healthy options, plus more traditionally satisfying bacon-and-eggs-type choices. The breakfast layout is impeccable. Their breakfast is just a very pleasant experience; first class. It seems a lot of German speakers stay here. We took that to be an indicator of quality. Wenn man selbst Deutsch kann, ists natürlich zum Vorteil, aber die Belegschaft spricht gern Englisch. There's very little shelving, & not a lot of space, in the (immaculate) bathroom, nor in the shower...where are you supposed to put your stuff? This is a complaint I have about hotels all over Europe. It's a small price to pay for this otherwise great place. And it's only a hop-skip-jump to the highlights of the very charming town of Freiburg-Breisgau.