ibis Bremen City — Hotel in Bremen

We stayed for three days and found the hotel a good base for discovering Bremen and for travelling to Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg. Our room was okay, slightly larger than the standard Ibis room at 16m2. We took the advice of one of our fellow reviewers and asked for a room at the back of the hotel. It was good advice as it was indeed quiet. In standard Ibis style, the room doesn’t have a safe or a fridge but we were surprised that you don’t even get a hand towel or rubbish bin liner. The hotel, if you time it right, is good value for money. The walk into town is about 10 minutes through a very attractive park. ||The receptionist who greeted us was lovely: very pleasant and helpful. We had other very good interactions with others on reception apart from one evening when we reported that our room hadn’t been cleaned. The receptionist suggested it hadn’t been cleaned because we left our “do not disturb” sign out but, when we said this wasn’t the case, instead of apologising, she said she’d pass the information on. Upon checkout we mentioned this to the two very nice ladies who were on reception and they were profusely apologetic.||The Sri Lankan barman was wonderful! ||The area around the hotel is a bit dodgy so if you’re safety conscious you might want to consider a hotel closer to or in town. The area around the train station, sadly, is frequented by drug pushers and the hotel is next to...

We stayed for three days and found the hotel a good base for discovering Bremen and for travelling to Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg. Our room was okay, slightly larger than the standard Ibis room at 16m2. We took the advice of one of our fellow reviewers and asked for a room at the back of the hotel. It was good advice as it was indeed quiet. In standard Ibis style, the room doesn’t have a safe or a fridge but we were surprised that you don’t even get a hand towel or rubbish bin liner. The hotel, if you time it right, is good value for money. The walk into town is about 10 minutes through a very attractive park. ||The receptionist who greeted us was lovely: very pleasant and helpful. We had other very good interactions with others on reception apart from one evening when we reported that our room hadn’t been cleaned. The receptionist suggested it hadn’t been cleaned because we left our “do not disturb” sign out but, when we said this wasn’t the case, instead of apologising, she said she’d pass the information on. Upon checkout we mentioned this to the two very nice ladies who were on reception and they were profusely apologetic.||The Sri Lankan barman was wonderful! ||The area around the hotel is a bit dodgy so if you’re safety conscious you might want to consider a hotel closer to or in town. The area around the train station, sadly, is frequented by drug pushers and the hotel is next to...

I rarely write bad reviews, but for this time I need to make an exception. This hotel is the most woman unfriendly I've ever encountered. I wanted to book the Ibis closest to the train station. By accident I booked this Ibis. My train was 2 hours delayed, so I arrived close to midnight at the wrong Ibis. I asked if I could change the reservation, and they said no. For me, this was absolutely unacceptable. I was a woman, alone, at midnight, in a city I didn't know, with the area around the hotel filled with shady men hanging around. In the end I was forced to walk alone through the dark and filthy streets to the other hotel. I have rarely felt so unsafe, and disrespected by (male) hotel staff, who probably don't understand the full risks of sending a young women to walk alone in dark streets where she can easily be harassed or worse. The least thing that the staff could have done was to offer to call a taxi or negotiate a reduced rate. But in the long term one of these hotels must change their name. I bet I'm not the first person to make this mistake, and at some point a woman is going to be harassed or worse because of this unfortunate choice of hotel names. Everything else about the hotel was fine, but I don't care about warm showers or good coffee for breakfast if I'm fearing for my life. You must reconsider your rebooking policy for solo women travellers after...