For a budget hotel this is a good one. Staff very nice, the breakfast which is not free is not bad a tall. The WIFI works most of the time. The hotel is the nearest one to the train, and it only takes 10 mins to walk to the Markt Platz downtown. One novel feature is that there appears to be a brothel across the street. However, the customers who come and go 24/7 are well behaved and concentrate on the business at hand--there is no noise in the street at night. Someone told me that the girls better halfs stay at the hotel while the women are engaged next door.All in all, I was surprised how far the hotel standards had risen over the course of 6 years. The same coould be said of the city itself. Halle is now almost west German in its feel--it is no longer the grim GDR city of the past.

We stayed in this hotel for one night in September 2010. The hotel is located not far from the railway station but rather far from the center of the city. The staff were helpful and pleasant. The room was rather small but very clean, comfortable beds, free parking near the hotel. Actually there was nothing to complain.

Our company was participating at Leipzig fair in June 2010 and I have booked a hotel 3 months ago. When I arrived around 1 am (It was a long trip from Serbia) they could not find my reservation for 30 min and finally after showing my printed reservation they gave us a room on the 6th floor. The out wall is made from PVC and glass (it is not a brick wall, I am a civil engineer btw ), it had no air condition (it is a 3 star hotel). It was very hot in the room and when i reached for the cold water in the mini bar THE FRIDGE WAS NOT THERE. I went to the reception and the girl told me ''Yes it's broken so we took it out'' and I asked the to find me a fridge or give me a new room, where she answered me in a very rude way ''We do not have other rooms'' and continued doing her work. Bad English, unpleasant stuff, striptease bar 5 m away.... VERY BAD HOTEL!!! AVOID IT!!!

A recent business trip to Halle was pulled forward, resulting in my not being able to stay at the original accommodation booked. After several unexplained delays in reaching Halle aboard the Deutsche Bundesbahn, I was amazed to find that nearly all smaller hotels and hostelries had boarded up for the night by 21.30! (Amazingly, hotel- and inn-keepers are usually the most vocal to protest they are not making money and occupancy is down, but in Halle, none of the smaller, more reasonably priced places seems to have quite understood the correlation between shutting the doors early and not getting better occupancy...)

A survey of taxi drivers at the Halle Hauptbahnhof yielded the dismally discouraging advice that rooms would only be found at either the very elite Kempinski Rotes Ross in Leipzigerstrasse or the equally overpriced Maritim, in sight of the station. Thinking that due to my very tight budget and nearly empty wallet, I might have to spend the night on a station bench with several local winos, I was happy to see perchance the neon beacon of the Dormotel Europa, flanked by the equally bright displays of a nearby sex club.

A quick phone call revealed that the Dormotel Europa not only had rooms, but that they had a night porter on duty, could receive gusts all night and were extremely reasonably priced. The Dormotel chain consists of property in numerous German cities.

Arrived on the steps (not a handicapped-friendly facility!) the porter welcomed me into the pleasant lobby and registered me quickly. The rate remained the same as that quoted on the phone - 40 Euros for a single without breakfast. Breakfast buffet is available for a reasonable 6 Euro surcharge.

Issued a key to room 412, I was delighted to find a fullsize bed, a well-stocked mini-bar (operating on the honor priciple), satellite TV and all the comforts I'd expect of a better hotel at a much higher rate. Tired, the fluffy white bed beckoned and even the fact that the TV did not work was less than disturbing.

Traffic noise from the thoroughfare below was significant, making sleeping with an open window (habit) impossible.

I was pleasantly surprised to receive a personal wake-up call on time the next morning, and even though the room's carpets were less than spotless, the shower was wonderful, clean, and stocked with sufficent towels.

Check-out was quick and pleasant and while the cleanliness of some parts of the room and the corridors was below par, the overall impression was favorable and recommendable to those on a limited budget seeking late-night refuge in an early-to-bed town.