Maritim Hotel Frankfurt - Frankfurt/Main, Germany 

I had to stay there for 6 nights for a business trip. The hotel was fully booked because of the music fair, and we paid a very expensive fair rate. 325,00 Euro The room was ok, it was nothing special, it looked like all hotel rooms ind these kind of hotels but it was clean. The staff at the reception was very unfriendly, they lost the booking of our first night, and tried to blame us for that even we were holding the confirmation in our hands! There was no excuse, nothing. The breakfast was uneblievable good. A very big choice, including a japanese section! That was really a good start of the day. The staff at the restaurant lost our reservation one evenning, and this is of course a problem in a fully booked hotel. But they made it possible and were also kind and friendly. But - the food on the buffet was bad! The meat was so dry, we could not even chew it. The Highlight of this hotel beside the breakfast was definetly the Japanese Restaurant. The food was great, wonderful staff, perfect!

I had to stay in Frankfurt already a number of times. The Maritim is really by far the worst Hotel of its class - if you actually want to say so because it's pretending to be a high class hotel though it does not have any of the quality. The rooms in the Maritim are usually dirty (I had to stay there more than once). The carpet and furniture are old, the curtains are no longer white but rather yellow or even black. In the room I stayed beginning of September 2007 the carpet had a ridicously large blot of dirt (as you can see on the photo). The staff is rather unfriendly: I asked for a room on a higher floor when checking in and the reply was that I had booked the standard category - although there were other "standard" rooms available on a higher floor... Also I personally don't like where the hotel is locaed as there is no interesting spot in Frankfurt close to it - except for the fairgrounds if you want to visit those for business, which are right next door.