Description: In mid-December we were in Dortmund and we arrived at the Etap Hotel Dortmund West.
We have entered the address into our GPS and have the address found pretty much easy enough. However as the navigation system said we had reached our destination, I personally looked slightly taken aback from what we saw. We were standing outside a house which looked dark and closed. Luckily the hotel itself was a bit further and looked much better.
You can check in the whole night through but until a certain time at the counter, otherwise, electronically at an machine. Check-in was the easy and you get a number for our room. The room was on the second floor and unfortunately we discovered the hotel had no elevator. Luckily we didn’t have big suitcases but it’s annoying.
Mondays to Thursdays costs € 40 a night, during a night of Friday to Saturday cost 38 €, each additional person pays 10 €. The price is good especially for such a large city like Dortmund. You can get breakfast in the form of a buffet which costs 6 euro’s person. We haven’t done this because it seemed more fun to have breakfast in town. If you want dinner so also just have to go into town but there is enough to choose from.
The room can be opened with the pin number, which you get at check-in. Then the door opened and I was a little frightened. The room is quite small, you can only go by one after the other but not next to each other. The room has a double bed for 2 persons. Then there is even a TV in the room where you can comfortably watch from the bed. 2 steps away from the bed is a wash basin and shower. The bathroom is tiny, just as you can just rotate it. In addition, you can use in each room free WiFi. Had we known that we had brought our laptop.
The bed is quite spacious and we didn’t feel like sardines in a tin. The bedding itself felt fresh and nice and was perfectly white. The mattress felt a bit old and somewhat funny. Not pleasant but not unpleasant. The next morning I did wake up a bit funny and a little bit of pain in my back which luckily disappeared quickly enough.
You must have checked out to you at 12 noon, otherwise it assumes by default that one wants to spend another night there. When you enter the room, the window in the room is open. This makes the air in the room but wonderfully beautiful, but one is quickly forced to close the window, because at least our room window was directly out of the main road. If the window is closed, luckily we hear nothing more from the street noise.
On each floor, when you reach the floor, hangs on the wall of an escape plan, just in case a fire should break out in the hotel, as it is to see the location of the nearest fire extinguisher. I think that's great and stuff like that is simply a MUST.
I would go back down there when I need a cheap accommodation in Dortmund.
It's pretty much what the cheapest place you can find in Dortmund and the rooms are clean and smell fresh and pleasant.
Although the room was tiny, at the main road but even then the hotel has its advantages. As I said, it is advantageous to have a TV in the room and can use free wireless internet. Great hotel when on a budget!
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