Went for the weekend to visit the Christmas Market in Lubeck. The hotel was very old and extremely cold. Temperatures were below freezing during the night, yet the small radiator in the room did not seem to function at its fullest. Needless to say this was insufficient to heat an old room in an old house with very poor insulation. You could actually see the spiderwebs in the ceiling weave in the cold breeze coming in from the windows. The water in the shower also refused to be anything resembling hot!

Furthermore the receptionist/owner? seemed to suffer from some kind of illness resulting in frequent couching/spitting and very heavy breathing. I didn't wait around long enough to wait and see if he was in charge of making breakfast, as that would most likely have resulted and some kind of food poisoning.

A brief but very unpleasant stay of a single afternoon, as I refused to stay there overnight. The owner however refused to cancel my reservation of 3 nights, so I ended up paying for the room without actually occupying it. A small price to pay for avoiding some kind of infection from either the cold and damp room, the cold shower or the owner himself.

This a budget 2 star hotel. Knowing that, it is not bad at all. It has a great location to the train station, right across the street. It is small but clean. We arrived a day earlier than we had reserved and Herr Gerd Richert, the manager, shuffled some rooms and accommodated us. He was also very helpful and spoke English. We asked him about a laundromat and he offered to do our laundry at no charge. The breakfast was also good. This is a good value for the price as long you remember that is a 2 star hotel.

Beware when making a reservation at this hotel. We booked a double room for 3 nights by email. On arrival, we discovered that the room itself was overpriced for its outdated condition & stank of stale smoke. As there wasn't much to do in Lubeck we decided to stay with a friend in Hamburg for the final night. We notified the hotelier the night before we intended to check out. He insisted that we must pay for the full 3 nights despite not requesting any deposit, credit card or statement to this effect when booking/checking in. On offering to pay for half of the final day (despite leaving first thing in the morning after the 2nd night), he insisted that we pay in full or he would call the police. We listened to continuously changing stories about how this was the law in Germany. When the police arrived he backed down & accepted part payment, but tried to make us sign a form in German that we would pay the remaining balance at a later date. A hotel that we stayed at later on during our stay in Germany was most obliging and proved that the Lubeck hotelier was simply being unreasonable!