Louis Kotze
Google
Definitely more Trash than Deluxe. If the first thing you find when entering your-not so cheap room- is earplugs, you know you’re in for a rough ride. Located immediately above a bus stop on the main road into Maastricht center, the room with no airconditioning or sound insulated windows, is decorated nicely. And there everything ends. I don’t book a hotel room to look at green beer bottels attached to a log on my ceiling. I book it to sleep. Quietly and comfortably. You don’t get this at Trash. Reception isn’t available from 13:30 because they are, you won’t believe it: “a very small boutique hotel”, as the owners/managers informed me in a text message explaining why they won’t be there when I arrive. So, after 13:30 you are quite literally ON YOUR OWN. In a “boutique hotel”, wink-wink.Self-check in is admittedly easy though. If you know youth hostel procedures, you’ll be fully comfortable at Trash. While the location is good I cannot for the life of me recommend this unapologetic sham of a ‘boutique’ hotel to anyone. For 50 Euros yes, but not for 130 Euro breakfast excluded. It is at best, a sort of upmarket-ish utterly noisy youth hostel in the worst location a hotel can be: above a bus stop on the main road. Which, again, is fine. But then you pay the money to install airconditioning and double glazed insulating windows. Everyone else does it. And when you do provide your guests with earplugs, then pay the extra 2 Euros and get them the proper silicone ones. Not the cheap plastic Trash. Which it is.
And to respond briefly to the owner’s answer to my review this morning: this was very much an honest review, not a nasty one. It was impossible to sleep amid the ongoing traffic noise. Full stop. No good location or innovative room decoration that guests apparently love about the hotel-as the owners say- will change that. If you can’t sound insulate rooms and properly ventilate them, then perhaps it shouldn’t be a hotel.