Having visited Legoland Deutschland (it's never to late to experience a happy childhood!) in Guenzburg and then heading back to Sweden, me and my wife stayed over the night at the Best Hotel Mindeltal.

Knowing that all those families with kids from Legoland will probably leave at around 2000hrs (Legoland cloeses at 21-2200hrs), me and the wife left at about 1800 to get a head start over all that people. A bit east of Guenzburg, approx one hour or so, there's a small place called Scheppach, where we saw a hotel sign on the autobahn. The hotel wasn't difficult to find, so we parked the car just outside the entrance to check if they had a room for the night, which they had.

It was a rather big room with two low separate beds, and I mention that they are low particularly, because both me and the wife banged our shins on them. They were that low. The room itself was well furnished and clean. The beds were comfortable too. The cost for it, including a breakfast buffé was approx €80 for us both. Reasonable I think.

The ventilation sucked though, so we had to open the window in the bathroom and the one in the room, to get rid of the water vapour from the shower. I couldn't see any ventilation out-inlets anywhere. Weird. The hotel seemed to be rather new, so maybe they didn't fix it yet. Anyway, the problem wasn't so big, only a bit irritating.

The receptionists were very nice and courteous, actually more than you'd expect from a roadside joint, if you get my drift. And apparantely this hotel caters a lot to Legoland, as the nice lady in the reception first asked if we had any kids (which we don't), and then advised us to have breakfast before 0700 in the morning, as the breakfast area would be filled with families and screaming kids after that time. That was very considerate of her. I like!

The rooms were otherwise quite well isolated and we heard no children screaming, or any other disturbancies. The only time we noticed more-than-usual-fuss was in the morning when the families started to gravitate towards breakfast.

The hotel doesn't have a restaurant per se, only a bar. There are however an italian and a chinese restaurant a stones throw away. We chose the italian one, and were pleasantly surprised that the food was so good. After all, it was roadside place. The repertoire ranged from regular pizzas to more elaborate a lá carte-dishes. The waitress had her 6yr-old (or something) daughter there that helped out. Very nice and helpful.

As for screaming children, I don't hate children or anything. I am only not very fond of the noise they make... Being on vacation, you rather want some peace and quiet, right?