Arcotel Camino Stuttgart

Fabulous hotel with a great breakfast buffet, comfortable beds, modern amenities, excellent service staff, great bar area, and on site parking. Not within walking distance to a lot of the tourist areas, but well worth the stay.

Positives: the rooms are large, the toilet/bathroom is completely separate, there is a (very small) fridge in the room, cleaning is generally okay, furniture is fine, the state of repair is good, the bathroom "heating lamp" is a small piece of luxury, people are nice, price was low when i visited, late checkout (12.00!), close to the main train station, walking distance from downtown, public transportation nearby. Negatives: Breakfast is bad (most of it is dry and/or tasteless), room feels mildly damp even though aircon is on full time, my room needed a "master-cleaning", "spa" and fitness are there to get another star and really could be much better (in fairness, i did not use them - but i did visit them to determine if i wanted to try them). Some of my negative experiences: Cleaning is only once per three nights (on a four night stay, that should be after two nights). When the room was cleaned i was left a new towel that had a large brown/red spot on it. Breakfast pancake "pan" had a large black hair in the middle of the pancakes. Curtains are hung VERY high and almost impossible to get to cover the window - and it was loose in one side. Headboard had small red dots (blod?) and furniture and curtain had (non-red) spots as well. Could be solved easily with a damp cloth and two minutes more for the cleaning crew. And no - i did not contact the reception with any of this. I am sure they would have solved any any of it, they seem nice and the hotel is not full. Any one thing did not an annoy me that much, but overall i think there were too many small annoyances for a four star hotel. My suggestion would be to try one of the other local hotels with three or four stars and similar pricing.

I would give this hotel 3 stars but definitely not 4. The furniture is pretty old, no bottle of water in the room, no mini bars. The restaurant is very basic. 1 double bed is 2 single beds with a small duvets.