“A shadow of what it used to be”
The rooms were spotless with superbly comfortable beds, the hotel sits in a prime spot in central Gießen with all key places within a 15‑ to 20‑minute walk, and the upper floors give a great view of Gießen and the Lahn Valley; Wi‑Fi is fast and reliable. However, the whole hotel feels dated and neglected by the owners, a fact the staff openly mention to guests; compared to our stay a few years ago, nothing was upgraded, renovated or improved; there is only one very small elevator for the entire building; the rooms still carry the vibe of the late 1990s and early 2000s; in our room the bathroom lighting was partially broken; the once‑revered restaurant now only offers a buffet, and their Jever Deel bar, styled after an East Frisian pub, is quite pricey and underwhelming; check‑in was cumbersome because no single piece of information from our reservation with . was transferred; the biggest let‑down was the breakfast buffet, which once was lavish and cosmopolitan but now feels like a shadow of its former glory, though the products remain good and tasty.
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