alfa hotel

Good breakfast.

When it is warm and you have to open your Window you hear the noise of the highway. It is a pitty there is no aircondition.

The location, just outside Saarbrücken, was very convenient - in close proximity to the motorway network which made the hotel an ideal stopover on my way from Austria to the UK. The parking garage made parking on a tight site easy. The room was spacious and well-ventilated, with large windows that opened fully (newer hotels, take note!). The bathroom was spacious too, equipped with a corner bath and a shower. Reasonably good water pressure. The staff were friendly and courteous. The bed was comfortable and I slept well.

The hotel has no lift, so if you are on the top floor (I was) it is a long climb if your bags are heavy. Although the food was perfectly ok, dinner was quite expensive for the ambience and the food served. Breakfast was a little past its best by the time I arrived at nine a.m., with the hot food quite tired and curled around the edges. Some of the decor now looks extremely dated - pastel swirl colour schemes from the early 1990s, I'd guess, and room numbers indicated by signs from a decade before (see photo).