Mercure Hotel Koeln Belfortstrasse

Very disappointing experience – not what I expected from a 4-star hotel I booked a two-night stay here and, unfortunately, it did not live up to the 4-star experience I was expecting. The lift was not working during our stay, and the key card access to the adjacent building was faulty, which was inconvenient. The cleanliness of the room was also very disappointing. The bin still had litter in it, the coffee cup had clearly not been properly cleaned from the previous occupant, the coffee machine was dirty, and we even found an empty beer bottle under the bed. To make matters worse, there was building work taking place next door, with loud noise starting as early as 7:30am. This was particularly frustrating as I had booked this trip to celebrate my son’s birthday, and the experience was far from what I had hoped for. Even the checkout experience was disappointing. I handed over my key card and there was no interaction whatsoever — not even a simple “thank you”, “goodbye” or a question about how our stay had been. Given the issues we experienced during our stay, I would have expected at least some basic level of customer service or interest in our experience. Overall, I am really disappointed. When a hotel is advertised as 4-star, I expect a certain standard of cleanliness, facilities and customer service. Unfortunately, this stay fell well short of those expectations, and I certainly did not feel that I received the 4-star experience I had paid for.

Good hotel, 20 mins away from city center, quiet neighborhood, staff were friendly. However it is overpriced..

Staff for breakfast are amazing

Positives: clean and in a quiet area Negatives: maybe this hotel would have been fine had it not been for a terrible first impression that then meant finding fault with things normally would just have been ignored. On arrival, checked in and told would be staying in the less-than-appealing-looking block the other side of the road (no reception, bar or pool or anything there). Then told am staying in a room on fourth floor and then told the lift is not working. There was no email about this in advance, or message via Expedia. This was not a problem but the fact they had not even bothered to check or update me in advance was lazy practice by Mercure management. The feeling it left me with was that they did not really care about having me as a guest and that feeling persisted the next time I interacted with a member of staff in check-out; who did not even bother to ask me how my stay was. It just gave the impression of a hotel where the culture is one of not really being that bothered at all about customer service. So I can also say that my room smelt of drains, had to phone for the WiFi password, the bed was uncomfortable, the two pillows provided had the structural integrity of a melting block of ice and ice would have been nice as, inevitably, the air conditioner did not work. The hotel did offer me a free drink at the bar on arrival because the lift was broken. The bar was unstaffed at that point, so meaningless. Book elsewhere.

Lovely warm pool, kind and helpful staff.nice and clean room 💓