Hotel Windsor (Cologne, Germany)

Rooms and en-suite bathrooms are meticulously clean and fresh with a nice balance of traditional décor and modern furnishings. Beds are very comfortable and, while some rooms are more compact, the space is well-used and feels roomy.

Hotel staff are professional, efficient and friendly on both day and night shifts. It is clear that staff members are all well-trained in service and multilingual so getting them to help with problems or queries about the hotel or the city is very easy.

Hotel Windsor Cologne serves a fresh continental-style buffet breakfast each morning in their spacious and very clean breakfast room. Everything is fresh, from the cutlery to the contents of the platters and the variety is enough to suit almost all tastes.

The hotel offers free Wi-Fi throughout including in all rooms however, the signal coverage is a bit limited and rooms that are on the top few floors seem to struggle to get a good signal. The signal does get better the closer one moves to the source, so ideally use the Wi-Fi in the lobby's comfortable seating area.

The majority of en-suite bathrooms are what most would consider to be compact and are shower-only. While all en-suite bathrooms are spotlessly clean and overall maintenance is excellent, some may find the bathrooms to be too small for their needs.

As with most centrally located city hotels some ambient noise is to be expected. Street noise is a bit more obvious in rooms on the lower floors at Hotel Windsor Cologne, so booking on the top floors is advised for light sleepers.