Gasteresidenz Pelikan Viertal, Hannover, Germany.

This place has been converted from a factory (pens) into a sort of hotel claiming two to three star status depending which website you go on.I suppose the word Gasteresidenz should have warned me that this wasn't a conventional hotel, as it happens each room has a kitchen facility which some may find useful but the place feels like an institution of some sort.
The overiding impression on entering your room is distinctly unwelcoming. it feels like you are going to stay in a converted store-room, which is probably the case.

The rooms are large, the windows are large and long, the ceiling is very high and the bed looks very lonely placed in the middle of such a big room.There is a sort of empty black book case resting against the wall like a hopelessly short ladder and a small table on which a lamp is placed.The bathroom is tiny considering the space available in the rest of the room.The rooms are uncarpeted as are... more