Stachel IgeL
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My girlfriend and I travel a lot, but we've never experienced anything like this before. The room was actually quite nice, with beautiful windows – but that’s about where the positives end.
The bathroom: the door couldn’t be closed (not joking – it was just broken). The shower barely worked – it was either scalding hot or ice cold, with nothing in between. The shower door was leaking, and whenever we tried to take a shower, the whole bathroom ended up flooded. And this in a so-called 4-star hotel 😄.
Even though we specifically requested a room with a double bed, we got exactly the opposite. What can you do? I guess things like this happen when the hotel is fully booked. (At least the beds could be pushed together – and honestly, one bed would have been enough for us.) The room itself showed clear signs of wear and tear, and there were practically no seating options in the outdoor area.
To sum it up: I really don’t have high standards when it comes to hotels – I’m on my way to the Boom Festival and will be camping there for ten days. But what we were offered here is nothing short of a rip-off. In Germany, this wouldn’t even qualify as a 2-star hotel.
On top of that, the location is totally unremarkable – it takes at least 20 minutes by car every time to reach the nicer parts of town. We definitely miss our much cheaper Airbnb in the old town and are glad we're only staying at this hotel for a short time.
I’ll definitely avoid this hotel chain in the future – and I recommend others do the same. That said, I’d like to end on a positive note: the rooms were clean, the housekeeping was good, and the staff was friendly – even though we only had brief interactions at check-in.