Gasteresidenz Pelikan Viertal, Hannover, Germany.

This place has been converted from a factory (pens) into a sort of hotel claiming two to three star status depending which website you go on.I suppose the word Gasteresidenz should have warned me that this wasn't a conventional hotel, as it happens each room has a kitchen facility which some may find useful but the place feels like an institution of some sort.
The overiding impression on entering your room is distinctly unwelcoming. it feels like you are going to stay in a converted store-room, which is probably the case.

The rooms are large, the windows are large and long, the ceiling is very high and the bed looks very lonely placed in the middle of such a big room.There is a sort of empty black book case resting against the wall like a hopelessly short ladder and a small table on which a lamp is placed.The bathroom is tiny considering the space available in the rest of the room.The rooms are uncarpeted as are the corridors and landings. Consequently I heard every sound made by the opening and closing of doors, keys jangling, foosteps etc. The large windows are covered only by standard gauge vertical blinds which means that light enters the room easily therefore I found it nigh impossible to sleep with this combination of noise and light.
I did change rooms but this did not improve matters
Lying in bed looking at the stove and kitchenette made me feel as though I was crashing in someone's bedsit having failed to catch the last bus home.

The place was at least clean and the cold breakfast buffet was OK but that is all I can say for it.

I have travelled the world over and stayed in cheap and cheerful accomodation before but this was neither.One of Hannover's many trade fairs was happening which means all the hotels charge premium rates at this time. This place was charging (in April 06) 159 euro's a night. I stayed for two of the three nights I had booked but could not face the third. I was told that nobody had ever complained before therefore I was given only a 20% for my cancelled night, but I was able to find a better 3 star hotel in the city centre for half the price.

To sum up The Gasteresidenz Pelikan Viertal is uninviting and noisy and I would only ever stay there as a last resort.