Hotel Smartino

“Good new hotel.”

Good new hotel with funny and colored decoration. The staff is extremely helpful, polite, and always smiling and giving solutions. Room is large, confortable, clean and decoration is funny, full of colors. Toilets are also new and clean. Wifi works good in rooms. There is a lot of free parking plac… more

Good new hotel with funny and colored decoration. The staff is extremely helpful, polite, and always smiling and giving solutions. Room is large, confortable, clean and decoration is funny, full of colors. Toilets are also new and clean. Wifi works good in rooms. There is a lot of free parking places outside the hotel. It is located a bit far from the old city center, but you could even reach it by walk in 15 min. Breakfast is also very good (quantity and variety), in a quiet and nice place.

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“Very good for 2 star hotel.”

Plus: First of all the hotel including room is ver clean and tidy. Modern style is what I like though so if you are looking for retro this is not it. It is perfect for business but not only. The rooms are comfortable. This is because of good mattresses on high beds as well as minimalistic but effic… more

Plus: First of all the hotel including room is ver clean and tidy. Modern style is what I like though so if you are looking for retro this is not it. It is perfect for business but not only. The rooms are comfortable. This is because of good mattresses on high beds as well as minimalistic but efficient decore: office table, chair, sofa by the window, lighting and very good bathrooms with good quality accessories: grohe etc. It is also equipped with reusable liquid soap containers which I prefer. There is also space for your clothes, small fridge, safe and TV. All on very small area (maybe 18 m2) but without feeling of overcrowding. Great thing that some 4 star hotels do not have is the fact that everyday there is a fruit or green tea waiting next to the cattle. I've been in so called 3 and 4 star hotels that did not even offer a complimentary bottle of water on the first day. Prices are OK less than 80 EUR for single room. Breakfast are very basic which may get a little bit boring after few days but it's fresh. There is no diner area of course but there is enough restaurants within 10 minutes walking distance. A word of warning: be prepared to pay with cash in the restaurants and not all cash points accept Visa or MasterCard e.g. at least some Sparkasse cash points don't. Coming back to the hotel there is few things to improve but may be related to my specific room rather than hotel. The room was really warm which is not what I like so had to open the window. There is no AC which is not standard of course...just saying. My radiator had tendency to make noise sometimes for couple of minutes and the automatic ventilation in my bathroom was going on for like 30 minutes before it stops but I found a way to switch it off sooner- take the key card off and back in. Also the walls could have better noise proofing. I still recommend it especially when coming for business purposes since it is located bear the industrial area so I was able to walk for my meetings rather than drive. Service is very friendly and helpful. In terms of entertainment there is a TV in the nice breakfast area as well as fussball. I think that's it. I can definitely recommend it. Just a hint to the owner that they would really do good by offering diners on site too though.

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“Plain but delivers”

Small hotel with no bar or restaurant, just few vending machines. They serve breakfasts though. Carpark gets cramped towards the evening time. Quiet neighborhood. Very comfy bed, I had a great sleep. Decent WI-FI. Not bad if all you're looking for is a clean and quiet place to sleep.

“Pros/Cons”

Pros: nice and helpful staff. Good breakfast. Room is clean and good lighting. Cons: Internet does not work most of evenings (too many people connected I guess). Dinner food is of mediocre/average quality.

“Decent hotel but kinda in the middle of nowhere”

Checked in to Hotel Smartino for 4 nights for work. I’ll start with the good: We arrived before the check-in time of 3pm but managed to get our hotel rooms immediately so we were able to freshen up before heading in to the office. The staff are friendly, while they may not be fluent in English, … more

Checked in to Hotel Smartino for 4 nights for work. I’ll start with the good: We arrived before the check-in time of 3pm but managed to get our hotel rooms immediately so we were able to freshen up before heading in to the office. The staff are friendly, while they may not be fluent in English, they try their best and are always smiling. While the breakfast selection isn’t huge, it’s sufficient to keep you going until lunchtime - there are no hot items though, apart from boiled eggs and your toasted bread. The other thing that sets Smartino apart from a lot of the other hotels in Schwäbisch Hall (or even the rest of Germany) is that it has a kettle in the room, with some tea/coffee should you feel like you need a warm drink anytime. Given that the place is not near any conveniences, the hotel does have a small “pantry” of drinks and snacks that you can purchase if you get the munchies. They also do have a small room service menu. The not so good - its venue. Unless you drive, the hotel isn’t the most accessible. But that’s probably why they are able to price themselves extremely competitively. While the rooms are clean and relatively new, it is small. But that’s probably because we got the cheapest room. You may want to consider getting one of the bigger ones. Despite its size, there was still space for 2 twin beds, a little sofa and a work table. You may wish to bring your own clothes hangars since only 2 was provided. Oh, and there’s no wardrobe - there are 4 metal rods on the wall that you’ll use to hang your stuff. There’s also only 1 iron for the hotel - so you may need to request for it either prior to checking in or early enough in the day. Throughout my stay, I noted that I kept getting insects in my room - the ones that bugged me the most were spiders - they were huge by my city-life standards. Initially thought they were creepy crawling their way through under my door or some gap in the wall. It was only after a couple of days did I realise that whenever the room was cleaned daily, they would leave the window slightly ajar. Great concept in principle to let in fresh air - however I was on the first floor, facing a garden. So it meant I got my fair share of insect guests. If you decide to stay, remember to either get them to keep your window closed or to close it yourself if you are back in the hotel room early. Or just get a room on the 2nd floor. The last one which is rather hilarious is that they have an artwork of a lady hiding behind a shower curtain on the bathroom door. Unfortunately, opposite the bathroom door is a mirror which can be seen from the bed. So if you do not sleep in complete darkness, be prepared to get a shock every so often when you look in the mirror from your bed since it looks like there’s always someone else in your bathroom.

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