فريندلي سيتي هوتل أوكتوبوس

Modern hotel, excellent wifi, good breakfast.

Have stayed here before, but an update to previous reviews. I was upgraded to a more spacious room at the end of the corridor on the top floor. However this had the downside of very patchy wi-fi. The bathroom was a bit odd also given that it is open plan to the main room - the shower faces the bed through a glass window. Also, the shower is not a contained room which ultimately leads to a lot of water encroaching into the bathroom. Breakfast is good quality, the rooms are smart and the staff are pleasant.

WiFi didn't work and they tried to charge 5Euro for a bottle of water

The oktopus is in a low key location - there are a few bars and restaurants within a five minute walk but the town centre is a fifteen minute or so walk away. It is a 10EUR taxi ride from the Siegburg/Bonn railway station. The hotel is adjacent to a swimming and scuba diving pool, which is great if you like that sort of thing! The breakfast buffet is a fairly standard German affair. The hotel itself is fairly modern, the rooms are smart if a little spartan. Tiled floors can lead to some noise. During my visit the daytime temperature was over 30C/85F and around 20C/70F at night. Admittedly this is unusual for Germany but without air conditioning, the rooms were for sure a little warm. Having the windows open helped but being adjacent to the road and under the flight path to Cologne/Bonn airport made the nights a little noisy and sticky. Probably for over 330 nights a year this isn't a problem as it was quiet enough with the windows closed!

Great, clean, and worth the cost!