This hotel is okay if you're just looking for somewhere to spend one night, but I wouldn't recommend a longer stay. The young receptionist was not particularly friendly and spoke no English. There is no bar although drinks are available in the lobby.
Our room was clean and quite nicely decorated, if a little out-of-date. However, the public areas suffer from the lack of an overall concept. The lobby area is furnished in a country style; reception has an antique look about it and the breakfast room is in the style of a British seaside hotel circa 1970. Breakfast itself was okay, but I've eaten much better in other establishments. The rooms have no air-conditioning, but you would suffer from traffic noise if you opened a window and ours wouldn't stay open anyway, because of the way the curtains had been hung.
You would not want to use this hotel as a base for visiting the historic old town although it is not too far from the very interesting church of St Elizabeth. The main issue, however, is the underground carpark. The entrance is extremely narrow and only suitable for small cars. There are no individual parking spaces and late arrivals block the early ones in. Usually in these circumstances, reception keep the keys so that they can move cars to let someone out if necessary. We were not asked to leave ours, but we were awakened by a phone call at 0730 asking us to put the keys outside the room door so that they could move our car. This is not a very sensible way to operate a hotel. The parking places in front of the hotel are for residents only (with permit displayed) so there is no alternative to using the garage.
- Waldecker Hof Hotel Marburg
