This hotel is located about 10 minutes from the Bielefeld city center. It's in a suburban (a bit rundown) area. The hotel itself also has had it's best years. The reception desk looks a bit dated and the furniture in the room doesn't make it much better. It looked a bit early 80's style. Above the bed is a bright tube light which is a odd location. Only one of the bed cabinets has a reading light. The room itself was clean.. an old room doesn't have to be dirty if it's kept clean. However in this case the place looked so dated that I don't think I would come back here again. The hotel seems to be on a driving route for ambulances since that night a few times we heard them speeding by. There is only paid WIFI in this hotel and it has free parking.

I stayed in this hotel for few days. For 3 bed room we payed 70 euros, so not too much. That was strange because according to the price plan, the room was for 90 euros.

The rooms' "design" is typical for cheap hotels - dark wooden furniture. But for this price they were okay. Additionaly the rooms are huge! Minus for the beds - they are not too long. I have 193 cm and I couldn't lay straight.

Staff was very nice and helpful. For an Internet you must pay 3 euro/h. so not so bad. Generally OKAY!

I have graded this hotel above average, that's a combination of average for the accommodation and excellent for everything else including the food.

The two previous reviews of this hotel are both correct, it just depends on the perspective of the writer.

If you want an up to date, modern hotel, with the latest facilities, then this is not for you. It is not the sort of place where you wake up and can't decide what country you're in, let alone what city. It could only be small town Germany. If you don't want that then don't go.

If you like a family run hotel, with personal, albeit sometimes quirky, touches try here.

The food is excellent. (Although the hotel's attempt to put on the cooked breakfast they seem to think their English and American guests want is really quite funny. They make all the sausage, bacon, eggs etc for 0630 at the start of breakfast and leave it on hotplates.

If foreigners think that's how we eat no wonder they consider our food unedable. Ignore it, in fact do them a favour, tell them not to bother, I did!)

The cold spread of meats, cheeses and breads is well above standard in both choice and quantity, tuck in. My step-daughter thought she had died and gone to heaven when she discovered that, not only was chocolate spread available for breakfast, she was allowed it!

The hotel has a good resaurant on the ground floor for guests and locals. It is well used and perfectly acceptable. However, take the lift to the basement instead. The bar has extracts from the same menu, but much more locally orientated. You can listen to live music some nights (a good jazz band), play skittles (book ahead as the locals use this place) and you don't have to dress for dinner. I take my lap top down and work for the evening and nobody bothers, couldn't do that upstairs in the restaurant.

The rooms are functional, clean, tidy and comfortable, but a bit bland and uninspiring. With mini bars, telephones and TVs (only German stations - try Crocodile Dundee dubbed into German, hilarious!). One nice touch, not only were the management quite happy to empty the minibar in the childrens room, they didn't say a word when they filled it with cheap coke from a local supermarket.

As I said, your thoughts on this hotel depend on your perspective and requirements. I can understand why it would be a hotel you either loved or loathed. Personally I enjoyed it, but then I lived in Germany for four years in the 1970s and this is a trip back in time for me.

This place was probably fine in the 60ies or 70ies, but has not seen much work since. Everything is just stuffy, stale and small-town German. Your kind of place if you want to see what hotels in Germany were like in them olden days where dark pseudo-wood was modern. Decent in its ways, but I much prefer a more anonymous clean-cut place. Was the only hotel in town that had a room on that night. Prices & service are OK.