Hmm, I had mixed feelings about this hotel. We decided to book because of its stellar reviews on…read morebookings.com or one of those third party travel websites. The pictures of the view looked fantastic.
I had read before on tripadvisor that you can easily walk to town within fifteen minutes. We are both pretty fit young adults and had trouble completing the walk from the hotel to the city center. Maybe you can get to the outskirts of town within 15 minutes but it takes about 30 minutes waking to the main museum. Also, when it is 80+ weather, the walk is even more miserable. We were stupid enough not to get a taxi so we ended up hauling our luggage from the train station to this hotel. Long story short, we both were really tired after the walk.
The hotel in itself is pretty old. The floors were really gritty so I recommend that you wear flip flops or shoes. They did not provide enough blankets. At night the weather gets pretty chilly in the 60s but we only got a thin layer of blankets. I ended up turning the heater on but then it became too hot so I woke up in the middle of the night to turn it off. Not having enough blankets disturbed my sleep.
Lastly, I had mixed feelings about the hotel staff. There is a female and male front desk person. The woman is terribly nice and helpful. The guy, however was not. The day that we checked in, we asked the woman if we could leave our luggage with the hotel after we checked out the next day for a couple of hours. She said without hesitation that this was not a problem. The next morning, we went to the office to drop off our luggage. We got the dude who looked peeved that we were going to leave our baggage w him. He first said, you don't have a car? Then he said, "we don't have room for you to leave your luggage here." I told him what the woman had said the day before and he looked annoyed that we were asking him to do this and reluctantly said that we could it next to the cabinets in front. He said that he was mostly there but sometimes stepped away. He did not give us the assurance that our baggage would be watched or taken care of. Instead, he gave us the impression that he would not be responsible in case our stuff was stolen. But what could we do? We had no car. For the rest of the day, I felt uneasy worrying about whether or not my stuff would be gone at the end of the day. Had he been willing and exuded confidence that our stuff would be watched (like the other employee) I would never had worried. Btw, when we went back to pick up our luggage, he retrieved them from a spare hotel room. What happened to not having any space?
If you have a car and can deal w a little dirtiness, this place is for you. It is affordable and you get a spectacular view. The positives were that the view was breathtaking just like the pictures listed. The breakfast was also pretty yummy. They offer plenty of delicious seasonal fruit and provide yummy pastries. The restaurant faces Toledo so it is absolutely a gorgeous view.