Review of: Art Hotel Binders, Innsbruck, Austria

3/5 (minimum 1)

by tom on 11 Jun 2007

I think the name "Art Hotel" is stretching it a bit. "Furnished by IKEA" might be a bit more accurate. It's not a bad place, but I felt there was much more that needed to be done before I'd fall in love with the place, and a few things really niggled.

My room was small for the price: it was cosy and had a nice view, but it was still damn small. It had the feel of an upmarket student residence and could have done with a fresh paint job, which seemed ironic given I was supposed to be in an "Art Hotel".

I booked through Expedia, which seems to be absolutely the wrong thing to do, as the rates quoted are far in excess of what is quoted in the hotel's brochure in the room. Try booking through the hotel's own website (almost impossible to find on the Web) and you might get a better deal. Paying almost £70pn for a small room without breakfast starts to grate after a while. The woman who checked me in was really friendly, but the rest of the staff were pretty sullen. In particular the big guy who seems to run or own the operation was totally patronising.

You can buy breakfast separately if it's not included in your room, and at 7euros it's not a bad deal, but is pretty minimal in variety, and the floor in the dining room could have done with a good sweep.

The thing that got me the most was the location: the hotel's web site is pretty vague about this, but Expedia quotes 1km to the Congress (Convention Centre), and 2km to the Old Town. They've obviously got totally the wrong data here, as it's almost 1.5 miles to the Congress, through the old town. Sure, it's not far in a taxi, but at 8 euros a time the cost adds up quickly. Very annoying.

If you've got nowhere else to stay then you could do worse than Binders. It's generally clean and quiet, but in my experience it's unlikely to rock your world.

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Art Hotel Binders, Innsbruck, Austria

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