MAXX Hotel Sanssouci Potsdam

"Hotel was overall very nice, clean room, polite stuff. Breakfast was really delicious, I liked the option to skip daily cleaning to instead get a voucher for the bar. Also location is great, right in the center of potsdam so most of the main sightseeings were reachable by foot."

"Stayed there 1 night with my family. Everything was great, excep that the bed was too firm and not comfy, so we couldn't sleep well and the we could hear everything from the next room. But, other than that, we liked it, breakfast was nice, very cozy little lounge outside and nice staff."

"Starting with the positives, the staff provide great service and are friendly. The breakfast team promptly had their buffet ready by 6:30am each day which was perfect since we had to leave for work early (you can book rooms with or without breakfast and the check-in card clearly says which you have). It's located a block from the Sanssouci castle so it's a wonderful walk over to it down a small quiet street. Hotel has the charms of Potsdam and has a nice outdoor courtyard dining area which is nice. However, on the negative side, rooms facing that side will hear people talking late into the evening and early in the morning (latter was fine with me since I was up but I can imagine conversations from the buffet breakfast would emanate up like that from the dinner/evening conversations). There isn't a fitness on site but they have a partnership with a local gym where you have to drop by the front desk to get access down the street. When I was there, the daily temperatures were in the low 30's Celsius and the rooms themselves were probably high 20's - woken up two nights around 4am with the heat. There's a little radiator for heat but no fan or cooling component (I heard that some rooms have it but not sure which ones do) - to not be able to sleep on a business trip due to discomfort is not helpful for being able to conduct business. I'd recommend it during cooler times or if you're going for recreation/vacation and having good sleep isn't the higher priority."