ibis Hamburg Alsterring

Easy in, easy out! Nice and clean establishment and very kind service!

Very good value for money.

Good!

I'll start with the good. The woman at the front desk was fantastic. That's about it. The hotel smells strong like cigarettes in the hallways very strong (and I'm a smoker and it bothered me). Parking is 14 Euro and is quite tight. And they require you to bring the ticket to them to validate it which is odd. A lot of people hanging out in front of the building. Rooms are small and the beds are hard. The toilet and shower are in a fiberglass box with a step up which is very odd...makes it difficult in the dark without banging your toes. Just an overall unpleasant stay.

Room was pretty much on the railway tracks with freightrains running by. Would have been less of an annoyance if the aircon had worked, but I needed the window open. Other than that, it was a rather small room, decent bed and an uncomfortable chair (don't go on business and expect to sit by the desk for more than 20 minutes). Breakfast I rate primarily on the parts that they actually make, which was pretty much just eggs boiled for at least 10 minutes after they were done, and scrambled eggs that they should have stopped scrambling quite a bit sooner. Other then that, it was fine. Just fine. The reason for the mediocre rating is that at the price paid, I've had significantly better hotels. Only source for coffee, 3.50 euro in the reception, my room smelled heavily of perfume when I got there and aircon of course didn't work.