Garner Hotel Cologne East by IHG

Staff speak English, easy parking to 4€ day, close to highway exit

No air conditioning

Nothing

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The surroundings are very quiet, close to a huge forest where you can go walking for hours or just relax. Koeln center is a 15 minutes ride by tram n.1 and to reach the Bruck-Mausfeld tram stop is just another easy 10 minutes walk. Breakfast was good with a big choice of food. Room was quite big (I had a single bed room) and clean. Receptionist and other employees were efficient and kind. Price/quality: excellent. Bravo!

Rooms forniture is dated but anyway the bed was very confortable. Bathroom might need some updating, but anyway it was spotless clean. Probably in the past it was a four star hotel… now I wouldn t give it more than 3 stars.

Rooms very spacious and clean. The hotel has a big parking space for your car. Nice breakfast

The location is a little far from Koln city center, you must drive or take a metro train from there which station is about 10/15 minutes walk from the hotel.

Lovely place, very nice breakfast and close to the train station. Ladies at the reception were very helpful and kind.

Little lake outside of the hotel needs a bit of cleaning. Invest in better pillows as they were way too soft.

Price level, easy access by car

Old facility, no air ventilation, poor WiFi, moderate breakfast

breakfast

I was about to cancel the reservation after I have read the comments here. I am happy I didn't do it! Probably people who rate bad this hotel they really didn't travel much in their lives. Now about the hotel: Indeed the furniture and doors are not new, but you can live without that or please choose another hotel. The rooms and bathroom were CLEAN. Old but clean. The sheets and towels were clean as well. No dust in the room. Someone in a review said they saw a bug in the bathroom. I have seen a small silverfish and nothing else, so probably that was about. The heating was working. The bed was really comfortable! Nobody entered in our room in all 3 days because we always left the do not disturb note outside on the door knob. Nobody was asking or pushing us to go out at an earlier time and we left at 12:00. There is a kettle, tea, instant coffee in the room. I was afraid for the noise but actually there was none, it was really silent (I was worried about noise as I have issues with my sleep). The Wifi was functional all the 3 days (we had the room at 1st floor)! The breakfast has everything you need and the food is fresh. There are boiled eggs, cheese and sliced meats, vegetables, cereals, yogurts, fruits, fresh buns. Coffee, tea, etc. When you don't find parking, no problem, all the small streets around have enough space and it's free. The distance to the city center is 19km and you are there in 15-20 min by car.

All the towels in the room were for face/hands (same dimension all of them).