We booked this hotel via booking.de website where it was stated it was city centre. We had never been to cologne before so we took this at its face value and made our way there. We got lost about a million times had to phone the hotel many different times and it took us aobut 1 hour to find as it was not in the city centre but about 20 mins out by car.

Upon arriving it looked a wee bit dingy but we had only payed £104 for two nights so weren't expecting miracles. We were greeted and told that we had requested a non smoking room and this was not available. I said we had specifically booked a non-smoking room but was told that it was only a request not a guarantee. So we had to make do. Got to our room and it wasn't a double bed as requested so had to change again!

The room itself was a reasonable size and the bathroom looked fairly modern and had a wonderful power shower. The decor in the room was very dark and dingy though with very old-fashioned furniture.

The bed was actually two singles pushed together and we kept falling down the middle! The matresses were very very soft and the pillows might as well not have been there. We both had very sore backs after this!!

The hotel was actually reasonable well situated in relation to public transport. 5 minutes walk to the tram then another 15 minutes into the city centre for a well priced 2 euro. It ran mostly during the night too.

The breakfast in this hotel was absolutely gorgeous! Ham, salami, pepproni and other spicy sausages, gouda, etam, brie and goats cheese and olives. Cereal, bread, toast, chocolate cake, yoghurts, eggs and bacon as well as the variety of pure juices, tea and coffey.

This hotel was a good base for the two days and provided a hearty breakfast but i wouldnt recommend any longer. Cologne itself is gorgeous!

My wife and I stayed at this Hotel in June 2006 during the World Cup. When we arrived at 2:00pm our room was not read yet and they wouldn't let us leave our luggage so we had to leave in the car, not an ideal situation but acceptable.

When we came back late at night after the soccer game was over, the key to our room was missing so we were finally given a "master" key to our room only to find out that it had been given to some other people!! Thank God nobody was in the room when we got there or it would have been a really embarassing situation. I know Cologne was overwhelmed with visitors but this is unacceptable.

We had to spend the night in a single room, there was no apology nor discount for getting a single bed room.

Stay away from this hotel if you can!!