Staying at hotels with different stars make you think about what the stars tell you. In general hotels with more stars are higher quality – but on our trip around Europe I really need to say something about 4 stars hotel in Denmark.
I have travelled a lot to the Copenhagen and to Stockholm because of projects; and normally stay at Radisson Blue, Scandic or Hilton as we get good rates at these hotels. I don’t mind staying at lower rates hotels, but I like to get the feeling that I get what I pay for. On our car trip we stayed at
Novotel (
Accor hotels) in Germany and
Mercure (
Accor hotels) in Switzerland. Great service, great rooms and the hotels are not too expensive. Two times we were even offered free rooms for the kids.
Novotel isn’t present in Denmark, and that is sad – because they would rock the world there. We stayed in 3 different hotels in Denmark. One Best Western, one non-brand and one Scandic. And all of them presented themselves as 4 stars hotels. I would have given them no more then 3 – maybe the non-brand was even a 2 two stars.
The best Western Hotel (
Best Western Europe) was a nice hotel in the first city after the border between Germany and Denmark – and probably get a lot of visitors who did the same thing as us – stay at the first hotel after the boarder from a well-known brand. The hotel was ordinary, not 4 stars –but of the three hotels in Denmark the best. Free internet, minibar in the room, good breakfast and nice service.
Close to Legoland the prices was high, and there was no brand-hotels available. We stayed at
Hotel Svanen their best feature was the short distance to Legoland. This hotel was after my scale a two stars hotel. Presenting themselves with four stars is just plain rude. They had the location close to Legoland – and that was it. The lady at the reception didn’t even talk to me when I checked out – she was one the phone(!).
In Fredrikshavn we stayed at
“The Reef”. The hotel is a Scandic hotel, but The Reef is just a big swimming pool. The guests are there to swim or to wait for the ferry to Norway or Sweden. This is a very noisy hotel, people going to and from the swimming pool 24/7 making elevators and floors wet. The bar offered wine in plastic glasses, and they didn’t sell water on bottles in the bar that you could bring to the room. No room service, no bathtube and no minibar. So if you are not there to swim – stay somewhere else ;-) The nice thing about this hotel is the short drive to the ferry (on the other side of the road).
So I’ll start rating the hotels I stay at. Maybe I one day will present my Michelin guide ;-)
BTW… in the European Hotelstars Union you need to have bath tubs in all the rooms to get a 4 star rating – so Denmark – what are you doing to us?
Now I am back at work after several weeks of paternity leave. I have worked some days in between when my wife has been at home to spread out my days at home. But now I am back at work – hopefully energized and ready to make a difference before I start my summer vacation some few weeks from now.
