Jeanette Y.
Yelp
This is not a bad hotel, matter of fact, it has a very modern/hip lobby that reminds of me citizenM at the Amsterdam airport when I had a long connect flight.
The front desk staffs are layback and friendly. Hotel is a block away from the subway that's convenient, the area has some selections of restaurants in the walking distance.
So, why the 3-stars?
Reason #1, The room is TINY!!!!! Maybe if you are one person in this room, you can leave your luggage out in one corner that you don't really use. If you have two people in the room, you really can't leave any luggage open unless you want to walk on your bed cuz you won't have a walk way at all.
The room is so small, you have to walk through the toilet room to the shower. And the sink is next to the bed and TV, as crazy as that sentence sound, if you see the photo you'll understand the whole set up in this room IS THAT CRAZY!
There is no closet to hang your cloth, you have 3 hooks on the wall right next to the door right next to the sink! They are so close to each other you can't even properly hang your coats without them overlapping each other.
They have a tiny safe that's attached to the table that the sink is sitting on. They also have the smallest side table I've ever seen next to the bed, it's about 2 1/2 iPad mini and only one side of the bed has side table. The rooms I had in the middle of Shinjuku Tokyo were bigger than this!!!
Ok let's move on from the tiny room situation, I think you get the picture.
Another reason why I rated this cool hotel only 3 stars because THERE IS NO PRIVACY! I'm staying with my husband which I basically seen everything that I could see for 4 years. But I really don't need the glass shower area to see him or myself to be seen when him or I trying to clean myself. Remember I mentioned that you'll have to walk through the toilet room first to get in shower? The toilet area is also about 2 feet away from the bed with a thin glass door. It might as well has no door cuz you can hear the other person breathing let alone using the toilet.
Reason #3 why this place only gets 3 stars - there is no phone in the room for you to call the front desk. I literally have to go to their site and find the hotel phone number and dial with the mobile phone they have in the room. And the TV broke twice tonight and we just checked in couple hours ago. (Update: the TV is broke again this morning after maybe 2 hours of it working last night)
Reason #4, the shower is strange. You can choose from rain head or hand held, but your handheld actually have to be hold by hand because it doesn't sit at an angle, also the water would stay at the temperature that you set for about 2 minutes then it drops about 10° for about 5 seconds that makes it really cool and then heat up for about 20° and burn you for 5 seconds then go back to the temperature you set! Real fun for my 15 minute shower let me tell you.
If you are single traveler, enjoy cool hotels, like to hang out at the bar and mingle, I think you would like this place a lot. If you prefer a comfortable room that you can leave the luggages out without tripping over it or not feeling claustrophobic, I suggest you look somewhere else. I usually stay at Aloft near the Haupbahnhof which is about the same price, twice as big nice rooms! It's right across the main train station which could seem a little seedy but it's actually fine inside the hotel and super convenient if you want to get food/shopping later at night or take train to work or travel, that's the main station that goes to all kinds of places.
Ok let's wrap this review up with some nice words for this hotel - it is quiet inside the room and mattress is queen size which is kinda small but it's comfortable! They also offer breakfast buffet from 6:30-10:30am for €17 if you don't feel like going out.