art Hotel Tucholsky - Bochum, Germany 

Im Rahmen eines Besuches von "Starlight Express" haben wir eine Nacht im Art Hotel Tucholsky verbracht und waren restlos begeistert. Herrlich großes Zimmer im Art Deco Stil (alles aus sehr gutem Material), Lage mitten im Leben (Bermuda-Dreieck = ein Lokal neben dem anderen, Beginn der langen Shoppingmeile, direkt neben der U-Bahn-Station und einem Parkhaus - 5 €/Tag), sehr freundliches Personal und ein Super-Frühstücksbuffet. Wir werden wenn wir mal wieder in Bochum sind auf jeden Fall dort wohnen.

good things first - staff are delightful. for the rest: chose the art hotel having stayed a week at the art hotel berlin mitte, which was comfortable and attractive. bochum, however, is a hotel where cheapness and discomfort reign, under the label of 'minimalist': bed and two wooden slabs as room furnishing, it was freezing cold in the evening and the heating went no higher than tepid, the reading lamp was so chic that you couldn't see by it. the restaurant is clearly enormously popular - filled to overflowing, incredibly noisy, in a cavernous series of wooden rooms, with the reception in the middle of this chaos. had to go elsewhere to get dinner after i arrived at close to 21.00. breakfast in the same rooms, now filled with the smell of stale smoke.