Elbe

Clearly an hourly hotel. Screams in the hallway and loud blustering all night. Blood stains and other secretions on the wall and furniture. Photos on the net are probably over 30 years old. The hotel is ailing.

This hotel is shockingly bad. First of all there is no mentioning on the site that Elba hotel is situated in the red light district next to the house with “hearts” (see photo). Second of all the hotel itself is used as a location to schedule appointments for nightly quests (“zimmer frei”?). From around 11 p.m. up till 6.00 in the morning male voices are continuously heard in the hall and the sound of the elevator won't pause the whole night which makes it impossible to sleep, not mentioning the feeling of unsafety that appears. The hotel is extremely dirty and neglected. Smoking inside is fully tolerated. The fire alarms are either absent or not working (otherwise they would have been triggered the whole time). The smell is terrible inside. Such a regular thing as a body towel or a shower gel is not available. People come there for like an hour, I guess. By checking in no ID’s or passports are checked…In the morning a man with stoned eyes came out of the lift and started approaching me with the question how it was going... The list of this terror can still to be continued but the message is clear, I believe

On my first night in Frankfurt, I booked an Easyhotel near the Hauptbahnhof. And although everything was fine with us there, I booked this hotel for the second night. At exactly the same price. It was not far from the Easyhotel and also not far from the train station, but somewhat in the other direction. There were about 500 meters between the hotels. What was my surprise when I saw the area we were in. 500 meters in Frankfurt matter! The red light district is located next to the hotel. Not like de Wallen in Amsterdam or Reeperbahn in Hamburg, of course, but quite definite. My teenage daughter was very tired and did not pay attention to the signs and pink lights. The worst thing here is the abundance of drug addicts and drug dealers. Both in the evening and in the morning. On departure, we saw the work of the Frankfurt police arresting drug dealers. However, if not for the location, this hotel is quite good. We lived on the top floor. The receptionist was kind, although he could not find our reservation in the mail, but kept looking for a fax (yes, like 15 years ago!). The room is clean and quite comfortable. There are problems with Wi-Fi. I can't understand why?