I'd sail the seas to avoid the Maritim, Bremen

Advantages: It's quiet
Disadvantages: It's on life support and needs a shot of adrenaline

.... I found the other restaurant at the far end of the hotel and had an uninspired and overpriced meal in which two courses and a diet coke put me dangerously close to my expenses limit without really filling me up. I've never bothered to try breakfast because, after the debacle with the other non-restaurant, I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to find it. The hotel apparently has other facilities like a pool and conference rooms and a walkway that links it to the exhibition centre nearby but I've not used any of these. It also offers over-priced internet access thats quite resistable. In summary, there's nothing wrong with this hotel but there are so many other hotels in Bremen that it really needs to try harder if it's going to ever fill its rooms. The company I visit in the city tends only to book the Maritim if...

koshkha 20.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Maritim Hotel, Bremen

One Day In Bremen

Advantages: a city with a small town feeling
Disadvantages: didn't find any

...Last year the question plagued me: one week of autumn holidays, what could I do? When I read that one of the greatest van Gogh exhibitions ever had just been opened in Bremen in the north of Germany I found my destination. The exhibition alone didn’t lure me, though, a train journey of seven hours and an expensive ticket, to say nothing of the price for the hotel, would be a bit exaggerated, even for an art buff like me. I wanted to see the north of Germany again; I had lived in a small town near Bremen for nine years and liked it there, in fact landscape-wise I’ve never liked it better anywhere else. I don’t cherish hills and mountains, I always feel they block my view. I want to see the sky! My mother and I always went to Bremen when we had great acquisitions to make which wasn’t very often, but I...

MALU 12.09.2003 · Read review
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Review of Bremen (Germany)

A First Class Choice at Second Class Prices

Advantages: Very convenient location
Disadvantages: A little bit basic

...stations. There is a slight air of sleaze for me in the concept of the transient railway hotel. In the case of the Intercity in Bremen, neither of these situations is true - it's not an architectural gem and it's not a sleazy dive either. What you get is a very nice, clean, modern hotel that's right next to the city's very attractive red-brick hauptbahnhof and right in front of the bus and tram station. As you can imagine, this isn't going to be the quietest hotel you've ever stayed in and if you open the windows, you will get a lot of noise. But with the windows closed it's not at all bad and since the aircon works in summer - not something you can take for granted in Northern Germany - you can easily live with the windows closed. The location is great for the station and the public transport network, but not quite so good for seeing...

koshkha 04.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of InterCity Hotel, Bremen

Another trip to Germany and another hotel!

Advantages: Well located, polite staff
Disadvantages: Strange route to getting to the sauna!

...So, another year passes and another trip to Germany's Christmas Markets now firmly in the past, it's time to report back! A little bit about Leipzig Forming part of the Former East Germany, Leipzig is a city of transformation. Although 500 years old, the biggest changes seem to have been happening in the past 15 years. It has seen a lot of the architecture associated with communism removed, while much of it's heritage is refurbished and transformed. There are still elements of communism and those times remaining, strangely one of the sites is opposite to the Marriott hotel! But, as it is currently in the stages of refurbishment, you will have to be quick to catch it! For those who are unfamiliar with the history of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 and subsequent re-unification of Germany, this is where it is all believed to have...

Lush1 19.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Marriott Hotel, Leipzig

Schones Stadt (beautiful town)

Advantages: gorgeous and lively
Disadvantages: really big, its easy to get lost

...I visited Bremen on a German Exchange with the school. As we drove into the city we were all astouded by the sheer size of the place. My pen pal was right "es ist eine sehr grosse stadt!!" With its picturesque appearance Bremen is truly a lovely city. The town centre boasts a huge station with the best trains i have ever travelled on. Their seats are so comfy and the trains are scarily quiet! The tram systems are superb and they come so regularly it is amazing how quick you can get somewhere. They run in almost every bit of the city; along with the infinite amount of buses, so getting from A to B could not be easier! They have so many restaurants and places to drink we lost count, everywhere you look there is somewhere to stop. It was fantastic after alot of shopping!! The shopping was great! I envied my pen pal so much! They...

groovy2000 26.10.2005 · Read review
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Review of Bremen (Germany)

A small town in Germany?

Advantages: Compact, cultured, loads to do
Disadvantages: Limited "old town", some may find it lacking vitality

...Bonn was the capital of the former West Germany (or Bundesrepublik in German) between1949 and 1990. It is the nineteenth largest (according to Wikipedia) city in Germany which says much about why it was chosen to be the new capital following World War Two; Konrad Adenauer, the post-war chancellor of the Bundesrepublik, was a local lad and he pushed for Bonn to become capital over Frankfurt, a city which was in a much better position to take on the role. Frankfurt already had many suitable buildings and a good infrastructure but Bonn won the day in spite of the added costs involved. Following World War Two, Germany was divided into four zones; this was done to satisfy the Allies who each had various claims on the territory and wished to protect their individual interests and the other reason was that it was believed that Germany needed...

fizzytom 20.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Bonn (Germany)

  A Rat-Infested Town in Germany

Advantages: Stunning architecture, lots of history
Disadvantages: Rats!

...I would imagine that everybody's heard of Hamelin, or to give it its more correct, German spelling, Hameln. At least, I should think everyone's familiar with the legend of The Pied Piper of Hameln. The town lies around 50km south of Hanover in the state of Lower Saxony, northern Germany. It straddles the Weser river and is the cultural and economic capital of the Weser area. In fact the town owes its prosperity through the ages to the Weser river and the trade that passed along it. This led to local merchants building some elaborately decorated houses which have survived to this day and are one of the main attractions of visiting here. Approaching Hameln you could be forgiven for wondering what the fuss is all about. A series of drab suburbs does nothing to excite the newly arrived. However, at the edge of the inner ring road...

proxam 09.01.2005 (20.08.2006) · Read review
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Review of Hameln (Germany)

Bremen What A Surprise

Advantages: see text
Disadvantages: see text

...of frothy head!! Also, we were caught out by the strange opening hours for the shops in Bremen (common to most of Germany I’ve since learned). As I mentioned before, my husband flew out to join me for the weekend - when we finally rolled out of bed on the Saturday to go and look for food to have for a picnic in the local park that afternoon, we were surprised to find most of the shops closing – closing time on a Saturday is 12 to 1 p.m. and no shops are open on Sundays. My advice would be to do your research before visiting anywhere in Germany so as not to be caught out by anything similar. The thing I enjoyed most was sitting in the main square on a warm summers evening enjoying a drink alfresco and people watching along with the relaxed attitude of the locals....

Donald 14.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of General: Germany

A Little Piece of Germany in West Yorkshire

Advantages: Close to city centre and cathedral, work a quick visit
Disadvantages: Would be nice to have some bars/cafes

..."Little Germany" is the name given to an area of Bradford city centre near the cathedral in which a good number of German merchants lived and did business in the nineteenth century. These successful businessmen prospered in Bradford and built a number of rather impressive warehouses for their businesses ? primarily within the textile trade. What is particularly ironic is that in 1846 a young German tourist visited Bradford and subsequently wrote an article, perhaps for the Ciao of that era, in which he said " In Bradford, however, you think you have been lodged with the devil incarnate. If anyone wants to feel how a poor sinner is tormented in Purgatory, let him travel to Bradford". Still many of his compatriots were to arrive, and settle, in Bradford just a few years later. The area is still occupied by businesses but some...

fizzytom 05.11.2009 (06.11.2009) · Read review
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Review of Little Germany (Bradford)

NOT JUST ANY OLD GRAPES - A GOOD VINTAGE THIS ONE

Advantages: Character. Food. Staff. Service. Decor. Comfort. Location.
Disadvantages: None worth mentioning here.

...WHY DID WE BOOK THE HOTEL TRAUBE in OFFENBURG? The Hotel Traube was not actually our destination, although for reasons that will become clear later, possibly we were left wishing that it had have been! Being 1st October, with the days already rapidly shortening, I did not wish to drive all the way from our home in Brighton to Brienz (our final destination) in Switzerland in one day. Compared to our marathon drives to Poland, both in the summer and at Christmas, you may be asking why we "chickened out" and stopped barely an hour's drive north of the Swiss border. Firstly I was behind the wheel of a four day old car; this precluded the usual "flat out" dash through Germany and, secondarily, we had been searching for reasonably priced over-night accommodation in the famous old city of Heidelberg?? ??"Reasonably priced...

RICHADA 20.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Hotel Traube, Offenburg, Germany