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If it wasn’t for the issue of sleep disturbed by bells, I’d give this place 4/5. It’s an old hotel with a cute exterior and charmingly gemütlich restaurant - excellent Backhendl, gemischte salat and house Grüner Veltliner by the carafe - and is right in the centre of Melk and an easy walk up to the spectacular abbey. Our room was comfortable with a king-size bed and a good shower - though in all-too frequently found Teutonic fashion, all signs that that the hotel is historic have been banished from the bedrooms and bedroom corridors. There’s easy, convenient parking right behind the hotel. ||But then there’s the familiar Central European issue of church bells ringing through the night. The abbey church wasn’t too terrible - it waits till 6am to wake the whole village (but couldn’t they wait until 7am?). The parish church next to the hotel is even more keen on preventing sleep, waking us at 3am with three loud rings, and presumably it rang on the other hours though we miraculously slept through them. The lady at breakfast confirmed that the parish church rings throughout the night on the hours and quarter-hours. This was disappointing as I went to the trouble of ringing the hotel to ask if there was an issue with church bells ringing through the night and was told there wasn’t.