I read the tripadvisor reviews before staying here and was expecting a bad experience. But there is nothing much wrong with this hotel! You have to ask yourself however why you are staying here because if you are a tourist you are just in the wrong place and not going to like it.
I stayed here for a three-day meeting at the multinational IT company right across the street. From office to hotel was a walk of about one minute so you can imagine that I found that very convenient. I suppose this gives a strong hint that the hotel is situated in an industrial park far out of town and if you are visiting Munich primarily so that you can visit the city centre you will be disappointed in the Rilano.
The hotel is not completely in the middle of nowhere and very close by there is a small shopping mall with a couple of supermarkets and some snack restaurants. I did not visit but my colleagues told me there was an Italian-style restaurant also within a few minutes' walk.
The hotel itself is quite a nice place to stay and everyone is friendly and polite. As commented by other reviewers the rooms are fairly small but certainly adequate for typical purpose of basically being in it for a while before sleeping. During my stay there was some engineering work in progress on my floor and I was quite surprised to be squeezing past busy Polish workmen all the time in the corridor stepping over the power tools but I could live with the experience OK.
I enjoyed the cleanliness and style of the rooms in fact; there are some stylish LED gooseneck spotlamps at each side of the bed and these were left powered on before I entered the room at night to give quite a "wow" feeling when opening the door. The general style is minimalist and clinical and you either like that or you don't but I thought it worked well.
I was astonished how CHEAP things were in Germany. As a UK guy who watches TV news about the super strength of the German economy I was expecting monster prices for everything but a large beer in the hotel bar cost less than in a UK pub. (Similarly the supermarket.)
I ate a few breakfasts and one evening meal in the hotel restaurant and agree with other reviewers that the food quality is not much good. To be fair though Germany has not really caught up with food expectations from international visitors and you just have to be prepared for that. I lost three pounds in weight during my stay which was a nice little bonus!
Wireless internet does kind of work in the lobby but not in the rooms. Also you are restricted to 100MB/day which is fine for trivia, catching up on your communications, but forget any entertainment streaming TV on your laptop or such.
So, overall, I liked it, but if you are visiting Munich as a tourist you won't.
- Tulip Inn Munich
