Mark B
Google
The wife and I stayed here for 4 nights in December at a cost of around £265 euros, this was room only. ||||The hotel is located 650 metres from Dusseldorf Central Station which is around an 8-minute walk. We travelled here from Dusseldorf airport which confusingly has two rail stations. From arrivals we headed downstairs following signs for local trains S11. After a few minutes walk you are at the station and the fare is 2.80 euros for the 5 stops, 12-minute ride. Other routes are available.||||A ticket machine is located on the platform, it may be prudent to buy a one day or two-day pass here if intending to use public transport in the future. A two-day pass for two people is around 20 euros. Ticket machines can be set to English, they take a bit of figuring out and the ones that we used wouldn’t take our credit card so we used cash. ||||We arrived at the hotel at around 6 pm. There is a phone number to ring as no one was there, be sure to have a charged mobile that’s capable of ringing German numbers. Perhaps an email with instructions prior to arrival would have been better?||||We showed ourselves to our room and we were very pleased with it. It was spotlessly clean, had two single beds together with comfy white bedding. There was also a large TV with many channels and a coffee maker. The bathroom was very clean with a decent shower. Room service was good.||||As the wife was unpacking, I ventured downstairs to find the free beer fridge that other reviewers spoke of. I was disappointed to find a fridge with only two beers and a box suggesting bad karma if a 2-euro donation per drink not made. It seems that we missed the boat for the free beer offer. ||||Although there are some bars and restaurants nearby the main large bar area, known as the world’s longest bar (street name is Ratinger Strabe) is 2 km away near the river. To walk here is 25 minutes or there are many public transport options (we used Google maps to navigate which shows all bus/tram/train routes in this area). On the first night we didn’t have a bus pass so took an Uber which cost 6 euros, a taxi was 10 euros on the return journey. ||||The hotel website boasts of a free travel card but when we asked for ours, we were disappointed to be told that the offer had expired in August 3 months prior to our trip. It wasn’t so much about the 30 euros but had we known we could have easily have bought travel passes at the airport and planned ahead. ||||On the first morning we had breakfast at a cost of 7.50 euros each. It was mainly cereal, coffee, bread, ham cheese and hard-boiled eggs. No offer of eggs cooked to order as previous reviewers had, perhaps we were just unlucky or this has now also changed?