When we arrived to check-in there were two guys ahead of us trying to check-in with the most obnoxious hotel worker I have ever encountered. The guys had limited English (and I assume no German) & they were literally being spoken to like idiots by the staff member. He kept saying "BUSINESS OR PLEASURE?" over & over instead of just re-phrasing the question. He was hideously patronising to them. I feel so guilty for not saying something to him, but at the time I had considered the very small chance that the guys had done something to warrant him getting all worked up in the time before we walked in. When it was our turn, my partner started to speak & he just said "NAME, NAME" over the top of him. (I'm not kidding!)
We got to the room and what a dump! The shower curtain was literally yellow with tobacco stains (I have never before been in a bathroom which smelled of cigarettes before so that after you shower you still stink!) Doors were all chipped & the room stank. Had we been greeted by someone human I would have asked to change rooms but we decided to put up with it for the two nights.
The location is great in terms of being near public transport, shopping & the red light district. We were literally awake for two nights listening to drunks carrying on in the street outside. We were there mid-week. Even with the window shut we could still hear breaking glass, yelling, sirens & general noise & then also had the stifling smell of stale smoke.
I will say the other staff members were all very nice & friendly there. The hateful guy might have been having a bad day but I feel that is no excuse for that behaviour. The hotel is very dated & run-down & the lifts are clown-car small, which at check-out time meant we had to wait with our cases for 20 minutes to use them. Breakfast is good.
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