MAX Hotel Garni — Hotel in Dusseldorf

The wife and I stayed here for 4 nights in December at a cost of around £265 euros, this was room only. ||||The hotel is located 650 metres from Dusseldorf Central Station which is around an 8-minute walk. We travelled here from Dusseldorf airport which confusingly has two rail stations. From arrivals we headed downstairs following signs for local trains S11. After a few minutes walk you are at the station and the fare is 2.80 euros for the 5 stops, 12-minute ride. Other routes are available.||||A ticket machine is located on the platform, it may be prudent to buy a one day or two-day pass here if intending to use public transport in the future. A two-day pass for two people is around 20 euros. Ticket machines can be set to English, they take a bit of figuring out and the ones that we used wouldn’t take our credit card so we used cash. ||||We arrived at the hotel at around 6 pm. There is a phone number to ring as no one was there, be sure to have a charged mobile that’s capable of ringing German numbers. Perhaps an email with instructions prior to arrival would have been better?||||We showed ourselves to our room and we were very pleased with it. It was spotlessly clean, had two single beds together with comfy white bedding. There was also a large TV with many channels and a coffee maker. The bathroom was very clean with a decent shower. Room service was good.||||As the wife was unpacking, I ventured downstairs to find the free beer fridge that other reviewers spoke of. I was disappointed to find a fridge with only two beers and a box suggesting bad karma if a 2-euro donation per drink not made. It seems that we missed the boat for the free beer offer. ||||Although there are some bars and restaurants nearby the main large bar area, known as the world’s longest bar (street name is Ratinger Strabe) is 2 km away near the river. To walk here is 25 minutes or there are many public transport options (we used Google maps to navigate which shows all bus/tram/train routes in this area). On the first night we didn’t have a bus pass so took an Uber which cost 6 euros, a taxi was 10 euros on the return journey. ||||The hotel website boasts of a free travel card but when we asked for ours, we were disappointed to be told that the offer had expired in August 3 months prior to our trip. It wasn’t so much about the 30 euros but had we known we could have easily have bought travel passes at the airport and planned ahead. ||||On the first morning we had breakfast at a cost of 7.50 euros each. It was mainly cereal, coffee, bread, ham cheese and hard-boiled eggs. No offer of eggs cooked to order as previous reviewers had, perhaps we were just unlucky or this has now...

This is a great little hotel within walking distance of Düsseldorf's main train station (about 7 minutes walk, not counting traffic lights). It is on a street crossing, but since I had a room to the rear of the building, I had no noise issues at night. I don't think the streets the hotel is on are very busy at night anyway, so you'll probably be ok in front as well.||||Very clean, nice and modern room. Personnel is very friendly. Didn't check for A/C, unfortunately. Price/Value absolutely top level. ||||Breakfast is pretty limited in selection, though they offer to make you eggs to order. ||||The only negative thing that I remember is the front door: the automatic closer apparently has an issue as it doesn't restrain the door in the last few centimeters, causing it to slam (loudly) every time someone comes in. That is a real issue at night, as you will wake up from it. Luckily, the hotel wasn't booked while I was there, so I only woke up once.||||I would go...

Nos alojamos en el hotel Max durante una semana. Se trata de un hotel que está muy bien situado, a 5 minutos andando de la estación de tren y 10 minutos andando al centro, y un montón de tranvías y autobuses prácticamente a la puerta. Cada noche te dejan una botella de agua en la habitación, es un servicio gratuito. ||||El Hotel por fuera no es especialmente bonito, pero por dentro está fenomenal. El diseño está muy bien cuidado tanto en las habitaciones, como en el comedor del desayuno. La limpieza es impecable, en 7 días no hemos visto ni un sólo detalle que nos pareciera mal.||||Tienen el detallazo de entregarte una tarjeta gratuita de transportes cuando llegas, que es válida para toda la estancia. Sirve para toda la red de buses, tranvías, metro y cercanías!!!! La verdad es que es un gran ahorro, porque el transporte en Düsseldorf es caro, sobre todo si se desean visitar otros pueblos.Por poner un ejemplo un viaje de 30 min en cercanías a un pueblo son 30e para dos personas lo más económico, el tren al aeropuerto 2,40e y un billete sencillo 1,20e.||||Además hay un ordenador disponible en todo momento con impresora, un microondas, unas planchas con su correspondiente tabla por si necesitamos plancharnos algo, internet, una nevera con agua fría, cervezas y refrescos, así como una máquina de café (estaba muy rico el café) donde puedes prepararte capuccinos, latte machiato, café con leche, té, leche caliente.... todo completamente gratis a todas horas. Los bollitos que quedan del desayuno los dejan a mano para que los consuman los clientes. Se nota que piensan en que las personas que se alojan allí esten cómodas.||||El desayuno está bien, es tipo buffet, con varios quesos, fiambres, zumos, mermeladas, varios tipos de pan, croissants,nutella, mantequilla, huevos.......||||Petra, la persona que atiende normalmente el hotel es absolutamente encantadora, cualquier cosa que se necesite la resuelve con gran diligencia.||||A nosotros nos ayudó y aconsejó una salida a un pueblo (Essen, divino, por cierto) y nos bajó toda la información impresa al desayuno con todo tipo de detalles.||||Sin dudarlo volveremos al Max, aprovechamos para saludar a Petra...