Kim Hotel Dresden

Great fitness room and perfect sauna!

Very friendly staff, good english. Straight tram/metro line to center, 30minutes. Good Air Conditioning. Peacefull location a bit further from centre.

The apartment is decorated very nicely, using high quality equipment (induction stove, Grohe, Smeg..). Furniture is custom made, massive wood, comfy bad. It looks almost like in a catalog. There is also decent space and a nice view. Laundry machine is good and there is plenty of storage. Quality windows, nice balcony. A lot of pillows and even a yoga mat. Nice breakfast - tasty and plenty of it. We actually left a lot of food in the fridge - some unopened, as it was really a lot for us. It was spotless.

It's more about looks than function. Despite installing custom made furniture and expensive appliances, they didn't equip windows with blinds (electric or manual - any would do). Entry door that are two steps from the bed have poor isolation so you can hear people from an apartment across the hall if they talk loudly and late (or lonely dogs that bark while their owners are busy skiing). Bathroom door are of sliding type, made of tinted glass, very heavy and provide limited privacy with a 1cm gap to wall when fully closed. Going to bathroom at night will lighten up the room (but not much as street lights are already in due to lack of curtains). Gas heater in the bathroom is very loud, and since sliding door with 1cm gap don't isolate sound, and bed is 1 meter away - bring your ear plugs (or turn it off during night). At winter it turns off and on every few minutes even if you put heating on the minimum. It's a top floor apartment, so isolation is so-so, and heating will often turn on. Only 3 big towels were provided. No hand towels or backup towels. Only 1 kitchen towel. Lamps by the bed didn't work (bulbs). You get breakfast in a box via a catering service. You need to book time in advance and if you like to raise some days early, some days late - questionable. Also - they don't have the building key, so prepare to be woken up by the bell (in our case even 45' ahead of time, because they come from across the town and will rarely hit the time you actually agree). In conclusion, this is another classic lock box airbnb. For a price of a 4-5 star hotel you get an ambitious looking place benefiting from location, with quite a few misses. If you're a good sleeper and don't care about bathroom privacy - it's near perfect. If you're a light sleeper, bring eye mask and ear plugs. If you want actual service, go back to hotels. I do when possible.

The bathroom was roomy with a good shower, and the bed was surprisingly soft and we slept well. A nice feature was the free parking, where guests could park across the road. The hotel was also very well situated near a tram station, making it an excellent point of departure for going to the city centre in Dresden.

But the rooms are definitely nothing more than standard. The furniture is old looking although the carpet appears to be reasonably new. There are many minor details which further support the impression of not being a 4star hotel. The water was not complimentary (which is often customary at other hotels) with a staggering price of 2.5 EUR and the toilet paper was a cheap, rough type. well. The breakfast was nothing special.