Hotel National - Bamberg, Germany 

We spent two nights at Hotel National in October 2007. It is a couple blocks from the main train station and a ten minute walk to the historic downtown of this fun little city. The front desk was helpful and answered any question we had. There is a restaurant, but we did not eat there. A free cointinental breakfast is served in a room on the top floor and was pretty typical of European hotels, with a good selection of breads, meats, yogurt, cold cereals, and strong coffe. The only thing different was the hot dogs and mustard. The room was pretty standard for Europe, small but space is well used. The carpet could have been cleaned a little better as it had some stains, but that was the only issue we had with the room. Overall a good hotel at a reasonable price. Also unlike most reservations we made for this trip, this is the only hotel that we did not have to prepay upon reseriving the room.

We stayed at the Ringhotel National in the fall of 2004. We found it convenient, clean, charming and affordable. I would like to warn: If you are driving, you may want to check out the hotel parking cellar before embarking on the descent down there. It was a nightmare! Very steep and narrow, no room to turn around, easy to panick at the thought of the price of repairs to the rental car. Fortunately, the hotel staff was friendly and understanding, they helped us! While the older part of Bamberg is very nice, we didn't find the walk from the cathedral-area back to the hotel quite as nice after dark. Excercise the same caution as you would if walking after dark in any other (american or not) town.