The hotel is a few kilometres from the centre of Salzburg. If you are going to the centre by bus, you walk about 300 metres from the hotel until you reach some traffic lights; the bus stop is just to the left of these lights. The buses are frequent – every ten minutes for most of the day. I don’t know when the last bus back is, but it is quite late. The journey takes about 15 mins off-peak, longer at busy times.
There is a small Spar supermarket on the other side of the road from the traffic lights.

Because the hotel is some way from the centre, we had dinner twice in the hotel restaurant; on both occasions we thought the food was reasonable value for money.

We were free to use the iron in the hotel’s laundry whenever we wanted, within reason.

The directions to the hotel I printed off from the internet said, at the end, “The hotel is opposite a church”. This is accurate. What the directions did not say is that the church had a bell tower. One bell chimes once at a quarter past the hour, twice at half past, and so on. The other chimes once at one o’clock, twice at two o’clock, etc. This goes on right the way through the night (all right, I can’t say from personal experience that it does chime at every fifteen minutes throughout the night, but from the times I did hear it chime in the small hours I think it’s a safe assumption). Then, at 07:00, the bells chime dozens of times . The first morning we were there was a Sunday, so I assumed that these rings were just to call people to church, and that the subsequent days would be quieter, but I think the same happened every morning we were there. What I want to know is, who first suggested having bells that rang throughout the night? And why didn’t they just take him out and shoot him?

To be fair, the bells weren’t that big a problem. (Which is just as well as they do seem very keen on church bells in Salzburg.) More of a problem was the lack of ventilation. Our room was in two parts; the first part contained the entry area and bathroom, and had a reasonably large window. The second part contained the sleeping area and had only a small window. These parts were connected only by a doorway (no door), and so there was very little flow of air through the bedroom. When we were there the temperature was only in the mid-twenties, but already the room was difficult to sleep in.