Hotel Residence Am Hauptbahnhof

“Good value when you can pay double in this run down area of Hamburg”

In May this year, I had stayed at the Signature Hotel Astoria, the worst, most expensive hotel I’ve stayed in. I stayed for two nights and it cost me £358, i.e. £179 a night (including breakfast). I wanted somewhere to stay very near to Hamburg railway station – the hotel is about 10 minutes walk... more

In May this year, I had stayed at the Signature Hotel Astoria, the worst, most expensive hotel I’ve stayed in. I stayed for two nights and it cost me £358, i.e. £179 a night (including breakfast). I wanted somewhere to stay very near to Hamburg railway station – the hotel is about 10 minutes walk away. I didn’t read any of the reviews on the booking site or on other travel sites – if I had, I would have been forewarned and would not have booked. Just two or three streets away from that hotel is this hotel. Again, I wanted to stay near to the railway station. I stayed for one night in October and it cost me £78. There was much less of the street prostitution / wandering, distressed people / street scammers than I found walking to the Astoria hotel. But there was still some. The whole area on this side of Hamburg railway station is down at heel which I don’t mind but not when the hotel is basic and it’s costing me £179 a night. This hotel was older – or old fashioned. There are steep steps at the entrance and to the first floor and the sight of laundry bags in the corridor (at 4pm in the afternoon) did not make a good first impression. But my room was large, the TV worked and the shower / toilet room was fine. The price didn’t include breakfast but it was possible to have breakfast at the hotel: I decided against that as the hotel is not large and didn’t seem full and I thought the breakfast would be pretty basic, out of a fridge and plastic wrapped portions – though I could be wrong. There are lots of Turkish restaurants and a couple of large supermarkets around the hotel and, if you walk to the other side of the railway station, hipster coffee shops. There are many food concessions in the railway station and some have places to sit and eat. I’d be happy to stay here again, given the price. On the other side of Hamburg railway station, everything is better, more modern and cleaner, including the hotels but you have to pay more!

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“Not great, not terrible ”

The hotel itself was good, very clean, tidy, bed was comfortable, toilet was spacius, clean, staff very friendly and helpful. The down side is the location, it looks like a gheto, a bit scary on the first. Never the less we didn't have any problems, but you do get an uncomfortable feeling walking... more

The hotel itself was good, very clean, tidy, bed was comfortable, toilet was spacius, clean, staff very friendly and helpful. The down side is the location, it looks like a gheto, a bit scary on the first. Never the less we didn't have any problems, but you do get an uncomfortable feeling walking down the street

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