Hotel Bredeney

These are my positive and negative experiences regarding the hotel:

Positive:
- The hotel has a big parking space
- The hotel is located in a somewhat peaceful side of Essen
- The staff was very friendly
- The coffee at the breakfast buffet was excellent, and the machine had a fast refill, so you didn't have to wait long
- The orange juice at the breakfast buffet was without pulp

Negative:
- On arrival we got 2 key cards, one of them was defective
- There was no room service option or any kind of free information such as pamphlets in the room to guide you to locations in the city or services in the hotel.
- There was no safe in the bedroom
- There was a very small fridge with room for only 3 medium-sized bottles of drinks
- We chose the room with coffee machine, upon arrival, there were 2 coffee machine cups to make coffee, though the box said there would be 3 of them
- The free shower gel that was provided in the bathroom of the hotel room did not smell very good
- We got a choice to choose a "green option" during booking, with this option the employees do not clean the room during your stay, and you get a free drink at the bar. I chose this option, but never got the free drink...
- During breakfast; it took a long while (+/- 30 minutes) until the staff refilled the food and drinks that were empty at the buffet
- The breakfast buffet was alright, but when we went there, the croissants were very lightly baked, the pancakes were cold without the option to warm them up, there was marmalade but no restock of cups to take the marmalade with you to the table, the provided bread was quite dry
- Someone puked in the hallway. I don't know how long it was laying there, but I saw it in the morning when walking to the breakfast buffet around 8am, and when I went to checkout around 10am, it was still lying there.

In overall, I think the price of the stay is somewhat fair to the service that you get.

We stayed there for 5 nights. Breakfast is bad, room were comfy but you can feel they had good days long behind them. The personnel was really helpful. Good in the restaurant was not even. Tortellini or burger were really bad, but duck or Gulash were ok. Beer is cold and waiter kept our glasses full. The biggest gain is that the Fair halls are nearby and the price was okish. If you can spend a bit more, just go to Atlantic.