After hunting around the town on the other side of the rail line without success for two hours (conference time apparently) we were grateful to find the Zum Lowen, with its impressive (and deceptive) old fashioned facade. having stayed in any number of cell like, soulless rooms through the Rhine valley, this was a nice change, even if the rooms are very dated. The funky bathroom tiles and the deep set windows looking out onto a leafy embassy lined street, made it better than it might have been.
The restaurant attached is good value and popular with the locals by the looks of it and the English speaking hostess could not have been more patient in explaining the idiosyncratic variants on the meat and potato based lifestyle that makes German cuisine as deservedly unheralded as it is.
Good value for the price I thought, compared to the rest of the hotels in town. Clean, slightly jaded and seen better days, but so what.
