I'm nearing the end of a month-long stay at this hotel. My wife and I, along with our two dogs…read morehave enjoyed this clean, well maintained (and dog friendly!) hotel nestled in the middle of the industrial center of Gronau. This isn't a tourist's hotel so much as a business support hotel for the large industrial factories that do international business here. They often host clients from around the world. That said, I would encourage any curious traveler with a desire for a more authentic taste of local German culture to consider The Aristo Hotel as an alternative to the more upscale (and $$$$) cookie-cutter tourist hotels. The Aristo has an English friendly staff and are very responsive to guest requests. The hotel bar serves as the local watering hole for a lot of colorful and interesting German workers from the surrounding factories. They're a lively bunch of folks who thoroughly enjoy tossing back a beer or two with the assorted hotel guests who also frequent the bar. You can order dinner starting at about 6 p.m., and often as late as 10 p.m. If you plan a late night dinner, check with the hotel manager to assure the cook will still be on staff. I have a distinct memory of my wife and I ordering a nice sirloin steak dinner one night at about 10:30! Large, well appointed party room can be rented for special occasions. See the many photos I posted of the facilities here. This is a three star facility with five star service. Highly recommended.

Very savy hotel. Not for tourists suitable because far from city centre. I stay here regularly for…read moreuniversity. Rooms are clean and inexpensive. They have also new renovated rooms for a higher rate. Friendly staff. Breakfast is alright but you could also skip it.

Edited; This is a beautiful place. Just probably not for exhausted business travelers. Please…read morestay here if you are vacation or holiday!! ---- Business travelers beware! Do not stay here, this is a quaint, maybe romantic old country hotel. No air conditioning, windows open, but the room quickly fills with mosquitoes. No iron, or ironing board. No In room service, this place is quite ridiculous for a business traveller. I've just spent 5 hours running between incessantly delayed DB trains with luggage for a two week business trip and rolled in here after 16 hour business day and feel like tearing someone's head off. Have fun fitting in the single, hot beds and ridiculous grandmothers room.

Have stayed here twice as part of business meetings. The first time had an upgrade to a suite with…read moresteambath in the room, very relaxing. The modern rooms are fairly spacious, as well as the bathroom. Comfortable bed, and nice view to the surrounding area and Werse river. Elegant dining room and bar. The fish (pike-perch) and steak were good (but expensive). Wide selection at breakfast. Internet connection extremely expensive, but there is a free public terminal hiding down a hallway near the reception. Large parking area, but can get muddy in the rain. Difficult to find without GPS. Some limited signs, but it is about 3 km down a forest road.

Great hotel and location! The rooms are clean and efficient!! Staff are also very helpful!read more

On a last minute trip whim we decided to go to Munster. Surprisingly every hotel I contacted was…read moresold out. This was one of several that had a room and the plus was they allowed dogs. Really good location if you like shopping. Warning if you are here on a Sunday, almost everything is closed. There is a restaurant below one of the buildings that has an amazing happy hour with cheap cocktails and pizza. Plan at least one of your nights to end here.

Very relaxing hotel. This was my second stay here and I really like this hotel. The rooms are very…read morebig and comfortable. The breakfast is excellent with lots of delicious options to choose from. Lots of parking is available as well. There is also a restaurant as well. I ate dinner there the first night. It was good but not great. It was a little on the expensive side as well.

The Ritz Carlton of the Epe area, Schepers enjoys a prominent and high profile location overlooking…read morethe edge of downtown Epe. Atmosphere is relaxed and wait staff were as attentive and professional as I have come to expect in this region. A dual language menu was offered immediately upon my being seated. I arrived without a reservation on a Sunday evening and was quickly seated in my requested smoking area. The smoking section looks to be comprised of the five booths in the bar area, four of which were occupied by the time I finished eating. A reservation might be required on a busier evening than Sunday to insure table availability This is my first post-Yelp member visit, though I have eaten here once before. We brought our two dogs with us on the previous visit. They were welcomed and, as is customary in all dog friendly venues here, were provided with a bowl of water. If memory serves, they were also treated to a couple doggie biscuits by the jovial German woman who seated us on that occasion. My dinner this evening consisted of a starter bowl of Tomato soup, which arrived shortly after a small basket of bread and butter were delivered to my table. It was served piping hot and made for a delicious pre-meal appetizer. My sirloin (rumpsteak) was cooked as ordered (medium). It was covered in a mustard/peppercorn sauce and set atop a bed of crisp-cooked French style green beans. The hotel/bar restaurant sits on a very pastoral and well manicured bit of land with ample parking. About the bill, and the standards of Germans in regard to tipping: Tomato soup, one beer, one Coke and one latte, along with the sirloin ordered as main course (and served with fried potatoes in a side dish) was under €34. Tipping ten percent makes you a bit prominent in an area where locals often leave half that. Tipping at a fifteen percent or more on any consistent basis as a regular customer is likely to get you treated with God status in most places by staff while saddled with lunatic American spendthrift status by the indigenous population. Being a waiter in Germany is a career path that starts late in high school and ends in a respectable job with a living wage and affordable healthcare as a minimum. In the US, the Federal Minimum wage law for waiters who receive tips is $2.13 per hour (€1.55/hour!). I'm almost certain that such a compensation system would be considered a criminal enterprise around here. When you leave a tip here, it's going to fund the waiters next travel vacation. In the US, it's something I always left a bit more of because I knew the waitstaff needed it as a large part of their basic economic survival. At the end of the day, I tip a bit less here in Germany, but I feel a whole lot better about doing it. Enjoy.

The hotel management and staff were exceptionally accommodating for our large group of students…read morestaying here for 5 weeks. Breakfast is an outstanding component of our stay here. There were several mix-ups regarding cost of breakfast, rooms, room payments, etc...BUT this was solely due to the University of Nebraska's contract travel agency, Fox World Travel...who seriously suck.

A bit of a walk from the town centre but one of the newest hotels in Muenster (which is a bit thin…read moreon hotels). Rooms practical, staff friendly. No a/c so can get very hot in summer. Breakfast good, join the free loyalty scheme and get 2 for the price of 1!