I stayed in the New Yorker hotel in Cologne on business last week and would recommend it. It is by no means in the most convenient location but the staff alone would encourage anyone to come back and stay.

My room had two very comfortable single beds and was on the top floor of the hotel. It was spacious, clean, bright and stylishly decorated. On a work trip it is always nice to have the option to make yourself tea/coffee and to be able to iron clothes so the absence of both facilities was a slight disadvantage for me personally but not a major issue.

There is no restaurant in the hotel but if you fancy a bite to eat there is bar food available which is pretty tasty. The hotel has sensor lighting which, if you are a fast walker like I am, can be slightly disconcerting when the lights only come on when you are already halfway down a corridor!

On asking for recommendations for food and drink on my final night I was enthusiastically presented with a map which had some bars and restaurants marked on it. The recommendations were excellent and the level of help and friendliness I experienced on my visit more than made up for any shortcomings of the hotel.

A special thanks to Torsten!

This hotel is real pearl. It is located in the industrial area, close to the fair centre. If You are taking part into a fair this a perfect place. Fair centre is only a walking distance away. Service is great and decor modern but practical. Staff is willing to help with everything and the hotel even has a real finnish sauna. Breakfast is great and makes You easily go on until lunch.

Will defenetely stay again when taking part into a fair.

We did not stay but I felt that I had to post my experience nonetheless: my husband tried to make a reservation for staying there on business with a colleague. When he phoned he was told that they would call him back. When - two hours later - nobody had called back, he asked me to take over as he was in a meeting.
So I phoned saying that it was for my husband who was still waiting for a return call. She did not acknowledge the fact, that nobody had returned his call, and did not apologise, either. She then continued saying that they had no rooms. Furthermore, she said "and there is the piece of paper with your husbands name and number - we did not get around to that yet..".
I had no other possibility than to say that this was sad to hear as they could have conveyed that somehow meaningful, short message to my husband earlier, since when he called it did not seem to be a problem of availability but being too busy to take the reservation at once.
Thus I cannot recommend that hotel - I have been in the hotel business for 12 years, and if it already starts in reservations with this "i don't care"-attitude it will most certainly be that way with the rest of the staff...
Which is sad, really, since business travellers always look forward to a chance of scenery from the average hotel.

The trick with this hotel is the website : very "trendy" and attractive. So a big disapointment, not only because of the poor location (just try to walk to the "nearby" park and you will understand what i mean...) but also of many details and of the behaviour of the staff. Our first welcome was rather friendly but we then received room 17 which is... above the kitchen. And the kitchen door is a revolving one which makes a terrible noise which we had to stand until 1:30 am and then again from 5:30 am on... so we did sleep less than 4 hours ! When we asked to change room, the answer from the manager was : "yes we have problems with this room but you know, i can sleep anywhere even when it is very noisy so...". I think it says it all. So he did not want to relocate us for our second night even if they had slightly "upgraded" rooms available. End of the story.
Beside this problem, I felt this hotel was is fact rather "cheap looking" and pretentious. I congratulate the photographer whose photos were used for the website.