TOP Buschhausen Hotel Aachen

A step back in time to the 80’s and not in a good way.

Hotel is located a few miles from Aachen centre. There is no hotel parking so cars are left on the street overnight. The rooms are like something out of the 1980’s. Clearly no refurbishment has taken place for 20 plus years. The room safe had a coin slot for deutch marks as opposed to euro’s so was completely useless.The fact that it required a coin to operate I find strange in any case. The so called swimming pool was small and grotty. Mini golf was strangely always closed when my children asked for it to be opened.The bathrooms were dated and grubby. The hotel food is overpriced. One portion of fries worked out to about 3 times the average and a fish and chips meal was similarly overpriced. Maybe the owners have confused Aachen with Monaco. They clearly know that there are no facilities near by and so inflate prices.The staff were generally stuck up and rude. However the icing on the cake occured on the day of check out. Before handing back the room key to settle our bill I decided to load my car with the family luggage. Whilst walking to my vehicle parked some 400 metres from the hotel I found myself being chased by a member of the hotel staff. The lady in question was shouting ’’ Your room number, your room number Sir! Sir come back! Come back!’’ Clearly she assumed that I was trying to ’’Do a runner’’ as they say. I found this offensive and extremely embarrassing. So all in all please never stay at this hotel. Worst service I have ever encountered.

Traveller's tip

Avoid like the plague.

Comfortable stay

The hotel is fine. Parking might prove difficult in peak times. Breakfast is a little expensive for the current Euro/Pound exchange rate. Everything else is very good.