Hotel Continental Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

It was my first time to travel to a northern German city. I found that the hotel prices were high. This one was close to the station and the price was relatively cheap. The reviews online were mixed. I was a little worried about stepping on a thunderbolt before checking in. The hotel itself is in a very good location, just opposite the station, but because the platform name and the name of the hotel gate are not the same, the entrance is not very conspicuous. Although it was shown on the map, we still didn't get up to enter. We found it from the photos shared by the previous stay. The hotel building is old and has no air conditioning. The room is dark and the air is a bit stuffy. The breakfast is the type of ordinary European hotels. Overall, it is clean.

This hotel lives solely from its location and price. The receptionist lectures you. He speaks so unclearly that we had to ask several times. He didn't like it, but thought he had to blame us for it. "I told you that..." The room was tiny, faced the main road, had no air conditioning - so you had to "sleep" with the window closed. There were also little-controlled noises from the neighboring rooms and the hallway, including from the building's technology. The bed linen was threadbare and full of holes. The faucet in the bathroom was dripping. WiFi was slow. One of the two elevators had been broken for three days, but had obviously been for longer. Only two people were allowed in the second one. A hotel employee still went with us as the third person... So we had to wait in line for a long time at the elevator or walk five floors. The breakfast was appropriate for the hotel's three stars. But when you went into the breakfast room, your shoe soles stuck to the floor.