Hotel Minerva

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.

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.

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.

Great, clean hotel in the Black Forest. Staff were friendly and attentive. The hotel was in a convenient location to all the major sights in the old town section of town. The included breakfast was also very good.

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.

The hotel provides excellent cozy rooms with superb breakfast in the morning. Though the windows do not open on the road, still the hotel is worth staying for an overnight stay. I was there to spend the night for travelling the next day to cologne. Very well behaved hotel personnel.

This hotel fell below our expectations in terms of room, location and value for money. The budget double room was the most expensive room of our tour of the Black Forest yet the smallest and least attractive. They are single rooms with a larger bed pushed against the wall. Rooms were not tastefully furnished - ugly functional furniture, cheap looking pictures on wall. You had to climb over the other person to get out of bed as there was no room at the bottom. There was street noise at night. The hotel is not in a very attractive neighbourhood. Close to a small park area where there were drunks hanging out. The breakfast was decent but would not stay again nor recommend to others. There are many hotels closer to the historic area and would look there another time.

My family came to Freiburg and needed a last minute hotel reservation. The staff at Hotel Minerva were so welcoming and helped us with everything we needed. They were always friendly and even remembered our favorite breakfast items when we came back down on our second morning. Superb customer service. Would 10/10 recommend, and I hope to be returning myself sometime soon.

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.