Boasting a quiet location in the Marsdorf district of Cologne, this 3-star hotel offers ... more
well-equipped rooms and a delightful indoor swimming pool, just 8 km away from the city centre.The modern rooms at the Mercure Hotel Köln West feature an en suite b...
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HOTELYEAR BUILT 1983ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTION MERCURE HOTEL KOLN WEST IS ... more
LOCATED IN THE WEST OF THE CITY, 7 KM FROM THE CITY CENTRE, 25 KM FROM COLOGNE BONN AIRPORT AND 15 KM FROM THE TRADE SHOW CENTRE. AFTER A BUSY DAY IN COLOGNE, OUR 1...
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Advantages: Chocolates on the pillow! Disadvantages: Full of the traveling English on coach trips to the Xmas markets.
for the price (the same money would barely have got us a small twin in a pension in the centre) and I would highly recommend this hotel for a stay in the city.
NovotelKöln City
Bayenstrasse 51
50678 KölnNovotel link: http://www.novotel.com/novotel/fichehotel/gb/nov/3127/fichehotel.shtml
Quidco link: http://www.quidco.com/accorhotels/ ...
Advantages: Close to Cologne Cathedral and shopping areas Disadvantages: Breakfast expensive 14 euros per person per day
We booked this hotel throuigh accorhotels.com and it certainly wasn't expensive for the class of hotel. We drove through France to Cologne and found the hotel easily, because it is on a main road. There is a public car park under the hotel which costs 10 euros per day or 1.50 euros per hour, so it could work out expensive if you took the car in and out. We found no reason to take the car anywhere, becauae verything we wanted was within a short walk. Upon arrival we were greeted by a very friendly receptionist who spoke extremely good english. She gave us the choice of a smoking or non smoking room, offered us a tourist map and asked if we needed any information about Cologne. The room was very nice, with air conditioning , internet connection, min bar, room service, television, a supply of shampoo etc, towels and a view over ...
. Strictly speaking, it should be explained that there was a very long interruption in the building programme, between the body of the church being completed in the sixteenth century and the resumption of the completion of the 157 metre (515ft) tall towers in 1842.
A famous feature on the Cologne skyline for hundreds of years, whilst no building took place, was the colossal wooden crane used to construct the towers. This had been left in tact, for the rapid resumption of construction. Fascinatingly it has been partially dismantled and is now on display in the very south west corner of the Cathedral.
For nine years, until the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889, Cologne Cathedral, thanks to its spired towers, stood as the world's tallest construction.
The South Tower had been built to the second storey in the fifteenth century, allowing ...
