Best Western Hotel Geheimer Rat

This is a really great hotel, situated in a quiet residential street of quality houses and apartments, within walking distance of the city centre. It is well appointed, lovely rooms and polite and helpful staff. We found that for the quality it is very reasonably priced. less

German literary heavyweight Wolfgang v. Goethe, who counted the title of "Geheimer Rat" (roughly: Privy Councilor) amongst his many honors, would have surely approved of this hotel, the name and interior of which makes reference to Goethe but stops short of actually calling out his name. Located in the leafy neighborhood of Magdeburg-Stadtfeld this historic building has nice, tastefully appointed yet functional rooms with good beds and enough natural daylight. The breakfast buffet is plentiful and the staff is friendly. Recommended ! less

We were visiting my wifes sister who lives about 20 miles from this hotel. I must say we are very pleased with the room, staff and the hospitality they showed us. The room was excellent, food was very good. Safe and secure hotel We will be back next year. less

A taxi from the main railway station to the hotel cost me 10 euros but I later found that I could walk the distance in about 25 minutes. I was impressed with the hotel and its tree lined surroundings. My room was on the very top floor and was well finished. I could get CNN English language broadcasts on the television which was useful as I do not speak German. The breakfast was good with buffet service. The staff spoke good English and were helpful with guidance to places of interest. less

Last year we picked Magdeburg and this hotel, primarily because it was more or less half way on the route from Denmark to Austria. We really enjoyed our one night stay back then and decided to take the chance to stay here once again travelling back from Austria. In contrast to last year there were no family rooms available (these are really wonderful), so we had to split up the family in two parts in two double rooms. We new that when we booked, so this was an informed choice. The hotel had been thoughtful enough to put us in two neigbouring rooms. The rooms were not totally identical - one had balcony, but only shower - the other had no balcony, but shower. For the parents it didn't matter for a one night stay - for the kids it was a big matter :) Both rooms weren't brand newly renovated, but fairly spacious and clean. One of the rooms smelled a tiny bit of "old stuff" - maybe it had once been a smoker's room. We visited the hotel on a very hot day, and we could have used some air conditioning, but it was nice to be able to open the door out to the balcony. Last year we had a wonderful dinner in the restaurant of the hotel, but unfortunately the restaurant was closed the day we visited the hotel this yeas, which was a bit disappointing, because we had been looking forwards to eat in the restaurant this year also. The friendly and service minded staff pointed us to a nearby Italian and French restaurant which we will make another review of (not totally positive). As last year we had a great breakfast in the restaurant with many choices of bread, cold cuts, cereal, yogurts, eggs, sausages, bacon, fruit etc. Our children enjoyed once again the option of having hot chocolate served in their own small pots. less