Even though I felt rather weak and we had to adopt my travel plans, my wife and I finally decided to go for a trip to Lille in France in November 2024. A very interesting part of the trip was…
IntercityHotel Mannheim
Attending a conference in the city, I had one night at the IntercityHotel Mannheim. My typical choice, the Hilton Garden Inn Mannheim (which is right opposite the same square), was simply too expansive, so that I went for that option.…
ibis Styles Budapest Citywest
Covering at least one day of the Czitrom Andras Hungaria Kupa in October 2024 and reporting from the Hungarian Floorball National Teams required me two have two nights in Budapest. As my travel plans had a very early inbound connection from…
ibis Berlin Hauptbahnhof / Main Station
As I didn’t feel like taking the night ICE train after my August 2024 trip to Dresden from Berlin to Cologne, I was looking for a hotel close to Berlin Main Station. Arriving on a Saturday evening there, I wanted…
IntercityHotel Bonn
I haven’t done a “Review Battle” for quite a while. Today, I am comparing two hotels of the same brand with each other. On the one hand, there is the IntercityHotel in my birth town Bonn. The brand is rather…
Innside by Melia Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg might not be the first place which comes to your mind when you think about German touristic hotspots.. However, I made it to the city in Lower Saxony three times during 2024. Two were due to cultural events (a…
Hotel Maison du Pre (Paris)
Getting a reasonably priced hotel during Olympic Games is typically a very tricky task. Thus, I was quite happy when we found a travel agency deal for Hotel Maison du Pre in Paris, when my wife and I visited the…
Hampton Inn Manhattan – Madison Square Garden Area
Hotel pricing in New York is weird. It is very hard to spot a reasonable place for 250 USD per night or under. What makes it very difficult for travelers, especially from overseas, is that hotel prices typically drop significantly…