LLennox.Booked B&B hotel hamburg, as a last minute deal, this is a clean and mordern hotel, which is located outside of the main ***** in hamburg, which had good transport links or walking distance if you dont mind walking.
Easy self checking when you arrive, we booked a double room, which was pleasant enough.
Room is keyless but code pad required, so you'll need to write the number down or take a photo.
There was no tea or coffee facilities or bottled water, but for the price dont blame them.
Cosy double bed, nice shower.
We didnt have the breakfast but did look yummy as we left.
Would encourage a stay here, but we did experience noisy neighbours in the morning, who allowed their children to run up and down at 6:45am two days in a row!!!
And yes it was the weekend, respect clearly wasnt top of the parents minds sadly.
Room was also quite hot, despite turning the heating off, was still quite hot with no function to turn down.
Was on a main street so unless you want to feel like your sleeping on the street ask to be located to the rear (not street side).
We did have a pleasant stay here and feel others would have a good time too.
PPeterKThe location is extremely convenient directly across the street from the Hauptbahnhof and with a subway station entrance and bus stop right outside. I felt very safe walking around even at night and the few homeless or other kinds of people hanging around were not that many and were not bothering others. There are many shops and restaurants and a supermarket at the train station but also right around the corner from the hotel is a busy street so easily walking distance to almost anything you need and a fifteen minute bus ride to the city center or the port and Reeperbahn area. It was extremely hot during my stay so no air conditioning was tough but most of the more normal weather times it would be fine. There is some city noise but it did not bother me even at night for sleeping with the windows open. A light sleeper might need earplugs though. There is only one small elevator for two people available for the hotel - the second one is still broken as other reviews mentioned so I wouldn’t expect it to be fixed. Taking the stairs down from the fifth floor was fine but not with heavy bags or going up maybe. Most of the front desk staff were friendly and helpful. The breakfast was standard for Germany but not a lot of extras or variety. It was good but not exciting. The best feature of the hotel was the spacious room and comfortable beds. I think it’s a good value for the space and location and would stay again.
ผผู้เข้าพักWell.. Do you really feel comfortable?
Yes, the building (a&o Hamburg Reeperbahn, formerly Hotel Stern, address Reeperbahn 152/154) actually has a connection to the Nazi era - it was not a direct concentration camp or large concentration camp, but it was used as a forced labour camp in 1940.
The exact connection (based on historical sources):
• The house was built in 1891 as a Logierhaus Concordia - a cheap lodging house for poor men (e.g. Sailors, travellers without a permanent residence). It had 235 small single rooms, shared toilets and was typical for the rough harbour and red light district of St. Pauli.
• In the Nazi era (especially from the 1930s), the house was often used by the porters (caretakers) to denounce (advertise) guests. Many men (e.g. B. homosexuals, ***********, ”asocials”) were arrested there and imprisoned - this was unfortunately common in Hamburg's ”Kiez”.
• From August 1940: There was a forced labour camp of Deutsche Werft AG (a large Hamburg shipyard). The company used the existing building as accommodation for forced labourers - prisoners of war (POWs), civilians deported from occupied countries and from 1944 also prisoners from concentration camps (concentration camp subcamps). The shipyard had several such camps (mainly in Finkenwerder and harbour area), and this one in the Reeperbahn was one of them. Exact numbers (how many people, conditions) are not well documented, but it was part of the huge system of forced labour in Hamburg (a total of 400,000–500,000 people affected).
• A Stolperstein biography mentions e.g. B. that a French woman had to perform forced labour in 1944 as a kitchen assistant in the Reeperbahn 154 Foreign Home (during pregnancy) before she came to another camp.
After the war it became a normal tourist home again, converted into an Eros Centre (a large *******) in 1964, later refugee accommodation (in the 80s very dilapidated), then from 1999 Hotel Stern and 2009 a&o.
Well. We had a real good sleep anyway.
The Bath Room is so warm and
the elevator was real… you will see….
Danke ;)