If you're coming in to Bayreuth by train, this is the place for you---it's across the street from the train station (but not noisy at all). The desk staff is pleasant and helpful; we had adjoining rooms with amusingly funky decor but very clean, spacious and comfortable, with extremely clean bathrooms. It's a very nice walk into the main part of the town for shopping etc, and the town itself is charming; don't forget to tour the Steingraeber piano factory. Wagner's not the whole story here! We had dinner at the restaurant adjoining the hotel -- if you're dressed for the concerts, you can sit in the back; we were just passing through, so we sat in the front and had probably the best meal of all the places we went to on our trip...sigh. Fabulous cooking. All in all, a very good choice for a visit.

Trying to get tickets for RICHCARD WAGNERS Bayreuth Festival is a very hard process; took me 10 years to get tickets. Well, after I finally got tickets I did some reserdh to find the best place to stay while in Bayreuth, Germany; and I found that place in the very lovely BAYRISCHER HOF HOTEL. My wife, son and I arrived in Bayreuth, via a cab because we got lost trying to take a train, and found the hotel right next to the train station. First, you could not ask for a better location. I had considered other hotels in Bayreuth, but found out later by walking around the town that they were far from the train station and also far from Wagners Festival House. The Festival House is where Wagners opera dramas are performed and was in walking distance of BAYRISCHER HOF HOTEL. This really came in handy because when the performance was over it became very hard to get a cab back to the hotel. Seemed everybody wanted to catch a cab and all I had to do was walk 10 minutes to BAYRISCHER HOF. We had a mini-suite; one large King sized bed and a cot made up very cozy for my 12 year old son. The room was quite large and always clean. We had a view overlooking a lovely garden. The hotel staff were very professional and always very helpful. Though we found very few people tha spoke English in Germany, this was not the case at the hotel, for the front desk spoke English very well. Every morning there was a heftly breakfast encluded in the room rate. Keep in mind that this was a large form of the European breakfast: Bread, jams cerels, cold cuts, soft boiled and hardboiled eggs...ect. The restaurant in the hotel is very quaint and served pretty good French cuisene. The only fault I had with the hotel is that the TV programming, alas, had only German choices except for the British CNN News; but we had recorded several programs on our computer DVR and also brought many DVD's with us which is what I recommend you doing if you play to go to Germany. All in all, we had a wonderful experiance staying at the, very conviently located BAYRISCHER HOF HOTEL.