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Advantages: City Centre
Disadvantages: None

15 miles from the airport, central to city and the metro/bus stop is just a couple of minutes away. A 10 minute stroll will get you to the river. Very good for location, situated in a back street close to the ring road so very quiet. You might miss it if you were not looking for it. Very clean, the staff were very friendly and helpful. Room facilties very good the only problem is that there are not tea/coffee making opportunites. They have a seperate ...
...main street. Again lots of bars locally, and recommend the local beer (lager) Kolsch of which there are many different varietys. Room prices are not that cheap, but well worth it. (99 Euros or £66 appx as at Feb 2006 Plenty of good restaurants from Asian to Turkish, I would suggest you try Farmers Restaurant if you like Steak they do a very good "kleine salat" (Small salad that is not so small) ... Read review

Advantages: Chocolates on the pillow!
Disadvantages: Full of the traveling English on coach trips to the Xmas markets.

...in Cologne in the 4* Novotel on the banks of the Rhine. We booked in September for travel in December, and paid only €250 (which was £177 on the date we checked in) for the three nights. This price included a breakfast each morning, which would otherwise have cost €15 each. Two breakfasts per day for 3 days is €90, so for the room only price we're down to €160. I booked through Quidco, using the Novotel own website (they have a best price guarantee) ...
...write letters on the complimentary Novotel writing paper if we wished, and a weird wardrobe thing that didn't have doors or a top, but was just some rails concealed behind some pieces of wood. The overall décor was very clean, slightly Ikea-style, plain and minimalist, and I liked it a lot. The only thing I would change would be the picture over the desk which I kept going to thinking it was a mirror (the mirror was further up near the non-wardrobe). ... Read review