Congress Hotel Chemnitz — Hotel in Chemnitz

The Congress Hotel Chemnitz is like a world of its own. Being there felt like diving into former communist times, in the 1970s. It’s full of invisible stories and memories of former times. There was everyone, from politicians, artist and music people, rich individuals, spies, just anyone you can imagine. If you are interested in such stories, you can read about them, for example: Interhotels DDR.|As some other people already mentioned here: it’s simply not possible to renovate this huge structure, as renovation costs would be most probably higher than just doing a new building. Here are some examples: There is no air conditioning system in the rooms, and the windows can only be tilted a few inches, obviously for safety reasons. On a warm day, it feels like a sauna in the room. On a hot day, I cannot imagine sleeping in there. It was okay for beginning of September.|The bed was comfortable, and the views from the window were amazing, we were on the 12th floor. We looked right down to the Karl Marx head statue. The windows are quite small though.|There’s no water bottles in the room, you can buy overpriced mineral water at the reception. |The hallways are with carpets and they smell quite bad, like a mixture of chemical cleaning products and old dirt. One of the four elevators was not working. The bar in the lobby was closed completely, due to lack of staff, as we were told. |The breakfast restaurant on the 16th floor is like a time capsule. Furniture and fittings from a long time ago, but great views of the city. A good selection of food, including a pancake machine, which I had not expected. No bacon with the scrambled eggs unfortunately. And on a Sunday morning they had run out of black tea. For a person who doesn’t drink coffee, this is really not nice. The answer of the staff was that they had simply forgotten to buy it, which is completely lame, considering a fully booked house in the middle of the European culture capital year! |The staff was a bit of a question mark anyway. Some were really nice and attentive, however, one lady at reception just had no idea how to treat a customer request. Because they have signs in the room saying, if you want a room cleaning, please let the reception know. That’s what we did, nicely, and her reply was, just order the cleaning by using the QR code in the room and use your phone. I said, my phone’s QR code reader sometimes isn’t working properly, please could you kindly request the cleaning service for us? And guess what, she said, no, try your phone first, and sent us away! This is absolutely horrible guest treatment! Someone like this should not be working at a hotel reception! |Our summary is, if you do like this kind of time travel thing, and you can accept some minus points, then it’s okay, otherwise find...

If you’re from the United States do not stay in this hotel this is a three star hotel it’s called a hotel and resort I still don’t understand what they mean by Resort it is large but were is the resort Worst Wi-Fi I’ve had in a long time!! They said it was air-conditioned there was no air conditioning they actually brought me a tiny fan if I need an air-conditioning or open the windows First most of the receptionist English is very poor so it’s hard to communicate only one seem to know the language it look like 1970 the room we had a junior suite was a nice size room two bathrooms the bed was comfortable and the towels were OK they diid give you a very small bottle of body lotion and the soap was in the dispenser other than that I didn’t see any shampoo or anything else I did have a mini refrigerator which they had a few items and that they did included but at the price that we paid it was not worth!!! it location was very good if you’re going to be in this area breakfast was adequate upstairs in a pretty setting but they don’t serve anything but breakfast there nothing gluten-free there was one gentleman in the breakfast room that spoke English and help me out a lot I appreciated that he was from Afghanistan and was extremely nice and helpful to me !!!the TV has no station not even CNN in English There are many choices of restaurants within a 800 m range the museums are walkable Supposed to have A major cultural city event I hope in the next couple of years things change !train station is very small taxi drivers...

It depends what you're looking for. It's in the center, which is great and I do like the way the rooms are set up. BUT!!! The internet sucks! Unusable. I'm hot spotting my computer from my phone. No congress possible. :) I don't accept the excuse that the internet is not working because the hotel is fully booked. A hotel that only has functioning internet when it's half empty cannot call themselves a congress hotel.... They have 3 locked Wifi-lines that they would not give me the password for. I'm only allowed to use the open Wifi that is not working AT ALL. I'm here to work, so this sucks. It's August, the rooms are very very hot. My room is way way hotter than the hallway or the outside, but I can't open the window all the way as at is locked and they refuse to open it. They gave me a fan which was a little bit of a relief, but if you don't have air-condition, you need to let people open the windows. The fan has a timer for 2 hours, so every 2 hours I wake up, covered in sweat, then have to get up and turn it back on, so it can blow on my sweat covered body and now I have a stiff neck and a cough. I don't know what it's like here in winter, but I cannot suggest to come here. Especially if you need the internet.

Update: Now the hotel is commenting that the windows let air in. Please come up to my room and check how much air is coming in. NOTHING! This room is like 20°C hotter than the outside and there is...