I am returning this month for my third visit to the Hotel Stadt Luebeck, with a small group from my school. I am very surprised to see complaints from one or two other visitors - they seem to be people with an axe to grind. On each visit I have found the owner, Gerd Richert, to be friendly and helpful. He speaks good English and is quite anglophile - even happily allowing my pupils to interview him for their GCSE coursework ! He gladly offers advice about Luebeck for visitors.

The hotel is of good two-star standard and is excellent value for the prices charged. Its location is terrific: right across the road from the bus station, which has a regular service to the airport (but is quiet enough, by evening, not to be at all disturbing); round the corner from the rail station; and a straightforward 10/15-minute walk into the town centre. There is a row of shops, including cafes and a late-ish opening drug store, within two minutes.

Rooms are clean and comfortable, and everything works; I had a minor problem on my first visit when I was allocated a "smoker's" room, but Herr Richert happily and swiftly switched me to a non-smoking room. Breakfast was fine and the breakfast room is pleasantly furnished.

Luebeck itself is an excellent short-break destination (especially with Ryanair's generally low fares from London Stansted): it is a fine historic city with lots of lovely little side-streets, and the brash lights of Hamburg are only 40 minutes away by train.

As a pleasant, good-value base, I would recommend the Hotel Stadt Luebeck with total confidence.

Hotel Stadt is in a good location for budget, no-fuss travellers, who want a low-cost break in Luebeck, near Hamburg, Germany. It's just across the street from the bus station, from which a bus takes you directly to from the airport (without fuss or need to change) at modest cost. The railway station is just around the corner, from which you can easily reach several other different interesting German towns.

The hotel itself is modest and plain, but perfectly acceptable. My bedroom (& shower Wc) was small but clean, comfortable and cosy, and the bed was comfortable. TV was not satellite, just local German, but that's minor and not important. I missed the in-room electric kettle tea/coffee-making facilities which we take for granted in British hotels; but I don't know if that's standard practice in German hotels, or not. There is one small lift, and the breakfast room is in a bright and pleasant little "basement" room with attractive painted windows. Unfortunately, (my only "minus" point) the breakfast was entirely a modest "cold buffet" - no hot/cooked options were offered; and this made the breakfasts a little bit boring. No evening food is offered: evening meals have to be taken outside.

Still the manager and his assistant spoke very good English, and were very helpful in giving me information about Luebeck and other towns to visit for day-trips. It's a very pleasant walk from the hotel towards the famous Holstentor and the Puppenbrucke over the River Trave, although several buses can take you into the Old Town on the island.

This isn't a fancy hotel which you "live" in during the day; but it's an adequate, respectable & convenient lodging-place to return to at night.

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.