I found the Herzog to be a clean, comfortable place to stay near the city center. The beds and pillows were very comfortable and the room size was large enough for what I needed. Cable television was provided with several English-language channels. Breakfast was above average - the usual breads, rolls, and cold meats/cheeses, but they also had a tomato/mozzarella salad and salmon.

I selected this hotel based primarily on its offer of free wireless internet service. When I first arrived, I could not get it to work on my computer and a very helpful hotel manager worked with my laptop and the hotel network to get it working. Later, the network was operating very slowly, but a call to the reception and they fixed the problem.

The location is very central, on Herzogstrasse a couple of blocks west of Corneliusstrasse. This makes it a tram ride from both the Hbf (main train station) on the east side of the city and the Alt Stadt on the west side. On one hand, I... more