Hotel Zum Goldener Adler, Leipzig

Advantages: Culture, Sport
Disadvantages: Nightlife

...in the fertile Leipzig lowlands bay, farming, fruit and vegetable-growing play a role to be not underestimated in the territory. I praise my Leipzig, I shall have said once a well-known personality and the man was right. Traffic Leipzig has a good fully developed traffic system and is attainable well from all directions. One comes to the town with an exhibition centre via the airport Leipzig hall, the motorway, several federal roads or with Deutschen Bahn. Important parts of the inner municipal cope with passenger transport suburban train, tramway and penitence and shortest running-times safeguard within the town and the surrounding countryside. Hotel, catering trade, tourism: By the fair, the education and culture facilities and the international sports the town has a well fully developed system of tourist and gastronomic facilities... Read review

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Advantages: cheapish, intriguing, some amazing buildings
Disadvantages: it's still a bit grim

...clubs mainly oreintated towards the student population. The city's landmark, the book-shaped former university library, is currently being restored having been sold off to the private sector, and therefore acts as a fitting symbol for the regeneration going on. Although you may be tempted to not bother with Leipzig from what I have written, at least until the regeneration is complete, I'd strongly recommend that you go now if you're going to bother. The city has some fine hotels, and although you can get an impression of the city from a day trip, at least one nights' stay is advisable in one of the excellent hotels such as the Hotel Mercure. Getting around the city is easy due to the tram network, and the place is safe. This is a unique opportunity to see how the legacy of communism has affected a city and its regeneration programme, and it... Read review

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Advantages: Well located, polite staff
Disadvantages: Strange route to getting to the sauna!

...So, another year passes and another trip to Germany's Christmas Markets now firmly in the past, it's time to report back! A little bit about Leipzig Forming part of the Former East Germany, Leipzig is a city of transformation. Although 500 years old, the biggest changes seem to have been happening in the past 15 years. It has seen a lot of the architecture associated with communism removed, while much of it's heritage is refurbished and transformed. There are still elements of communism and those times remaining, strangely one of the sites is opposite to the Marriott hotel! But, as it is currently in the stages of refurbishment, you will have to be quick to catch it! For those who are unfamiliar with the history of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 and subsequent re-unification of Germany, this is where it is all believed to have... Read review

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