This is an old property near the centre of town. It could due with some refurbishment as it look a bit tired. Room was clean but very small and laid out in a rather strange way. WiFi (at least on the top floor) is almost unusable. Staff were quite friendly and spoke adequate English. Apart from a quick drink in... More

This Schwarzer Baer hotel in Jena is zero star hotel. Four star hotel with receptionist who speaks english worse than receptionist in any hotel in Europe I visited. Wi Fi NOT working (I started speedtest and results I received is worse than in any undeveloped country in Africa 0.17 Mbit/sec Download and 0.15 Mbit/sec Upload speed) and I had problem... More

I have stayed here many times. Sometimes you get a very large room (at either end of the corridors), sometimes a much smaller one. This is an ancient historical building and parts of it are consequently somewhat gloomy. The restaurant has a rather staid, stuffy atmosphere, but the food and drink are usually to a high standard. For a touch... More

This is definitely a very nice hotel, nice view of trams running in the middle of the roads and beautiful natural scenes. A wide variety of options you will get in the breakfast. It will find all the range in the breakfast from low calories to high fat contents. More

I was very puzzled by the previous bad reviews. I found this place to be an excellent value for the money, and definitely on a par with good hotels in other small German provincial cities (this isn't going to be the Berlin Ritz, folks: you're in Jena!). It was quaint, charming, quiet, and clean, and the heating was still on... More

This is definitely not a hotel to be recommended. I fully agree with the earlier review: sterile atmosphere, even signs of dereliction, filthy restrooms, and staff at the reception turned out to be unfriendly and not really helpful. For some bizarre reason the hotel appears to be 4-star-rated, which is ludicrous. There are certainly much better places to stay in... More

I stayed in this hotel based on its long history and 500 years of tradition, it boosts famous guests such as Goethe, Martin Luther and closer to us Bismarck, Willy Brandt, Dietrich Genscher or Otto Grotewohl ... artists such as David Oistrach or Kurt Furtwängler ... I was expecting an hotel full of atmosphere and with valuable antiques, I found... More