Steglitz International

"Good location, nice staff, clean, spacious room"

"We were at the Steglitz for a week while traveling around Germany with another couple, and while it's by no means a terrible hotel, it fails with a few basics. The first is with the coffee. There's no in-room coffee and there's no complementary coffee in the lobby. Instead, there's a coffee station on each floor with a machine that requires 1 Euro and which dispenses bad coffee. This is not up to the standard of comparable hotels in which you get your bad coffee (and often, even good coffee!) for no extra charge. (We weren't paying for breakfast, so maybe that's where they serve the good coffee.) NIckel-and-diming customers for bad coffee means one star down. The second issue is that the rooms have glass doors for the bathrooms. Yes, it's wavy glass. No, it doesn't obscure the toilet and whatever it's being used for. A second star down. Otherwise, it's just fine. The rooms are big enough and clean enough. Beds are comfy, towels are good enough. The staff in general is great (although the night clerk was a little grouchy when I asked him for ten 1 Euro coins for coffee). The bar is quite cozy and quite nice, with pretty decent cocktails. Location is excellent, right by the trains, a mall, and a great Italian restaurant (Piazza Venezia). There was even an outdoor market across the street. So three stars. Mike sez check it out if you want to pay for breakfast and get your coffee there and if you don't mind the feeling of using a bathroom in a glass house."

"Located centrally in Steglitz this excellent hotel is probably most busy during the week as a business hotel. The staff and friendly and efficient. The railway station is next door as are the buses with lots of shops and bars very close by also. The interior of the hotel is slightly dated, but probably quite typical for Germany. Every space is very clean and well maintained. The cocktail bar was very nice and we were well looked after. We didn't have breakfast on site as there were so many options around such as the bakery or the supermarket or many cafes. The room itself was like the rest of the hotel. Very clean and a bit old fashioned but everything worked. My main complaint is the quality of the pillows. I may have been using them wrong but a limp sack with a small amount of filling meant I had to fold it twice into an uncomfortable square. The mattress was quite firm and the headboard had an uncomfortable lip that juts out making it impossible to sit up with your back supported. A shame that this detail, which is so vital to a hotel, is the one where the hotel falls down. I hope they take a long look at the sleeping arrangements when they next do a refurbishment."