Need an average hotel? This is your place.
We spent two nights here to take in the Christmas market in Dortmund and the surrounding areas. Husband loves Coffee Fellows, so I thought, why not stay here? We arrived via train and were able to walk to the hotel with no problem.
Checking-in was a different story. The reception desk is in the back of the store. Did it have a sign saying "Check-in here!"--I have no idea and if they did, it wasn't memorable. We stood around this random desk as no one was manning it. About 5 minutes later, a lady appeared to help us. She wasn't welcoming. Told us that we couldn't check-in since our room wasn't ready--which was fine since we were okay with dropping our luggage and exploring the city. She left the luggage behind the desk....which, I wouldn't really say was in a safe area since the desk was literally just that--a desk in the store. Anyway, we left to explore the city.
Came back hours later and were given our room key. Room was HUGE, which was nice. Windows opened to allow fresh air in which was great. Bed was comfortable with nice linens and pillows.
Bathroom was clean with fresh towels. However, the bathroom fan literally runs for 20 minutes after you shut off the light in the bathroom and is ridiculously loud. It sounds like you are in an airplane hell for 20 minutes after the light goes out. We took showers and flooded the bathroom. Now, we've lived in Europe now for awhile and stayed at many hotels and know that the glass divider in the shower doesn't block all the water, but this was a literal flood of the bathroom. We told the front desk who said they'd look at it. Did they? Nope. We ended up taking a shower with reduced pressure so as to not walk around in a flooded bathroom.
We had coffees in the evening here and they were good.
Check-out was easy. Hard to find a person in the morning at the "reception desk" to take the key and give us a receipt. Seriously???
Would we stay here again? Nope. Improve your customer service, be welcoming and friendly to your guests. This left a bad taste in our mouth.