Excellent: Location, breakfast
Mediocre: Room facilities
Poor: Room toilet

I stayed in Room 404. The toilet was tiny. The room had an armchair that was so old that I almost sank into the floor. The hotel says that it is renovating. It should. Enlarge the toilet by 50%. Get rid of the old armchairs. Provide decent common facilities -- tea-making, business centre with printer. For a good functional design, see Hotel Kreuz in Bern, Switzerland.

Small and rather old-fashioned hotel but with very comfortable rooms and excellent service at the front desk. The breakfast--only meal served in the hotel--- offers a good continental spread of cereal,bread,cheese,ham;juices , fruit and yoghurt, can't ask for more really. They rent you a cable for 3 Euros a day for in-room Internet accessibility and there is also a free laptop on the reception counter.

Location on a small side-street, a couple of minutes from the broad Ludwigstrasse, the hotel is about a 7 minute walk from 2 U-Bahn stations, Universitat and Odeonsplatz, the latter being one stop from the city-centre Marienplatz station, where the S-Bahn trains from the airport come in. Plenty of restaurants in the streets near the hotel and further afield in Schwabing and the tourist-filled city centre.

Our room had 2 windows providing excellent light and ventilation, but lack of air-conditioning could be a problem during summer months,

Hotel is situated 10-15 min. walk from city centre in an area full of restaurants and bars. This makes for quite a bit of noise!
It is NOT under any circumstances comparable to other plush and fancy Carlton hotels around the world. It is a small and a bit run-down place.
How on EARTH this hotel can be rated as a 4 star hotel no one knows!
The rooms are small and in need of renovation. There is no climate control, so in summer time you have to open the window at night, which is a problem because there is a lot of noise outside.

The employees are polite and efficient though and the breakfast buffet quite OK, which is why I'll give them 3 stars.

We spent two weeks there, while I was visiting at the university. It is just blocks from the Odeonsplatz transit station, and just a few blocks more from Marienplatz, the heart of the city. It's a very European hotel--not overrun with Americans when we were there--with full service, including a wonderful German breakfast buffet, and a truly wonderful Indian restaurant just outside. You won't think you are in a generic American hotel, that's for certain. Renovations continue, but we would certainly stay there again--and would look forward to it.