Hotel berhampiran Gayk-Wäldchen, Kiel

I spent hours researching hotel options in Kiel (never been, was invited to a birthday party), and wound up in this hotel. No question that the hotel offers the best location for Kiel activities at the best price. They have regular sized rooms and larger rooms facing the waterfront, expect to have each room come with everything you expect in a 4 star hotel. In-house parking available, just about everything worth doing in Kiel can be reached by foot, the ferry boats leave from a pier virtually across the street. If you have the time, definitely take the ferry to Laboe, other side of the harbor bay, where you will find a wide variety of beach front restaurants and shops and the U995 WWII submarine exhibit - above ground, with the price of admission (around $10) you can walk it stern to bow. Anyway, back to the hotel - this is the best option for the money, do not hesitate to book.

We liked the hotel very much. For travellers who want to use the ferry to Oslo with car, the location is particularly convenient. The hotel has a big garage and is located right in the center of town. Check-in at the hotel was very professional and friendly. The room was exactly like the photos on the website and offered a beautiful view onto the Kieler Förde. The breakfast was very rich. We did not take advantage of the dinner because the rooftop bar and restaurant was closed due to a private event. The only negative point was that we had to log on to the wifi again and again when the computer was switched off. We will gladly come back again.

Don’t stay here. Both times we have been here it has been excruciatingly painful to say the least. The first time we had the so-called presidential suite and another room for the kids. The presidential suite had a door that didn’t fit properly, dirty windows, filthy cushions on the couches. Old-fashioned furniture that has been badly beaten up and they are charging a premium price for the rooms. With the five of us we had quite a bit of luggage and my wife asked for assistance. Eventually somebody from the bar (refused to give his name but someone at reception said he was from the UAE) ambled up to my wife and said “you want some assistance with a luggage?“. Yes replied my wife. He then looked at her and said “we don’t do that here“ and walked off leaving her to struggle with three small children and a number of large suitcases. Absolutely appalling is the only way it can be described. Just simple good manners would dictate that somebody would help a woman with three children and luggage up some steep stairs and into the lift. Just not too hard thing to do for a young man…. Surely? The bathroom is dirty and smelt of mould. The second visit was no better. We would not have stayed here if it hadn’t already been pre-booked and paid. They managed to completely get the booking wrong and then refused to even try and sort it out in order to make our visit more comfortable. Instead, we end up with a tense and very unhappy situation exacerbated by the extraordinarily rude staff at reception who would not listen to our requests. Strongly recommend you stay away from this place.

Das Hotel ist gut gelegen, unmittelbar am Hbf und trotzdem ruhig (jedenfalls die Zimmer zum Wasser raus), das Personal ist freundlich. Leider ist das Hotel bereits in die Jahre gekommen, was man der Zimmereinrichtung durchaus inzwischen ansieht (fleckiger Teppich, Gebrauchsspuren an den Möbeln, Duschwand war mal klares Glas, durchsehen kann man vor lauter Kalk- und sonstigen Ablagerungen nicht mehr, teilweise verschimmelte Dichtungen, etc.). Die Sauberkeit ist oberflächlich ok, bei genauerem Hinsehen, sieht es leider anders aus. Kissen sind teilweise fleckig, am unteren Teil der Toilette fanden sich tatsächlich heruntergelaufene und inzwischen eingetrocknete Reste der Hinterlassenschaften vorheriger Gäste, der Teppich ist auch unabhängig von den Flecken nur recht grob gesaugt. Das hat leider einen so nachhaltigen Eindruck hinterlassen, dass insbesondere in Anbetracht des Preises, nicht mehr als die 2 Punkte gegeben werden.

A very nice and cozy hotel. The room we had, was very satisfying. The hotel staff is very polite and professional. The hotel has a cozy restaurant with very good food, and very friendly staff. There is also a small spa/saunaarea at the hotel, which is textilfree (FKK) and that we find very nice. There was some children in the spaarea beeing a little noisy and adults with bathingsuites, and without the staff saying anything.

Stayed for one night on our way to Norway and can't fault the hotel at all. Very clean, congrats to the housekeeping team! Excellent breakfast with a lot of variety. Attention to detail, as for example there are mirrors with a keyhole in the corridors, where most likely housekeeping is storing their stock. A classy way to hide those storage rooms. Nice touch! Only 'negative', the toilet roll holder is installed somewhat behind the toilet, so not ideal to reach. But now we are just nitpicking..