Hotels Near Buddha-Meditationsufer in Simmerath

The hotel is very large but almost completely without character. We are used to staying at a German hotel about 2/3 of the price and about four times better and more interesting. This was more of an up-scale hostel. Reception took ages to process our booking and the one before us. Looks like the hotel is designed for coach parties who want something spartan, anonymous and forgettable. Probably also to eat in town. There is a suggested menu in reception, but when I went to the restaurant just after 8pm there was absolutely no one. I went to have a look at the pool/sauna and met two ladies trying fruitlessly to get in by using their room key. We all gave up. Breakfast is OK, but basic. Rather overpriced for what it is. Just on the outside of town but an easy walk into the centre. Michel needs to get together with his friends and make the hotel more characterful. Definitely not four stars. 2.5?

Eenvoudig maar netjes en schoon hotelaccommodatie. Parkeren gratis bij de kerk , stukje verder in de straat. Vriendelijke en behulpzame dame bij de receptie . Bedden en kussens slapen heerlijk, verder een ruime schone badkamer met heerlijke douche. Alleen op de 2de verdieping kraken de vloeren nogal ! Extra voor 8 euro een heerlijk buffet ontbijt met diverse beleg, koffie/thee en jus d orange, gekookt eitje, fruit, joghurt en lekkere keizerbroodjes. Geen geluid van de doorgaande weg en een half uurtje van Aachen. (Tip, rechtstreeks boeken scheelt tussen 10 en 18 euro !)

Sick new hotel. Clean rooms, well-functioning air conditioning and with closed windows absolutely quiet in the room. Good rooms with safe, refrigerator, balcony and large shower.

We stayed at the Mercure Aachen Europaplatz for one night in May 2023. This was an overnight stop on our Journey from the UK to Bonn. The hotel is in a good location, very close to the motorway and with easy access to Aachen. Check in was quick and very efficient. The staff where extremely helpful and pleasant and made us feel very welcome. We had 2 rooms including a disabled room. Both where very well laid out. Clean, Functional and very comfortable. The disabled room was a wet room style which was perfect for my sister with whom I was travelling. Plenty of space, and well laid out. The only downside if anything was that the bed was a little lower then expected. We ate in the restaurant in the evening, the food was very enjoyable, the staff extremely helpful especially with getting a table set up for a wheelchair and overall seemed to be good value. Breakfast was included in the morning but had very limited choices however this may have been as we arrived close to the finishing time. Overall this was a very nice hotel with easy access, good parking, friendly staff, nice rooms and offered good value. I would not hesitate to stay here again if i had the opportunity.

I have stayed in this hotel quite a number of times and consistently the quality of my stay has been high. This time was no exception. The staff was very friendly and helpful. The room and the bathroom were spotless and had everything I needed. The WiFi was complimentary and worked really well. The signal was strong and stable. There was one thing that I'd like to see changed though. You need to register every day, but the login process is confusing. After you've agreed to the terms and conditions and clicked on the button to get the free WiFi, another window pops up and it wants to know things from you. This is however not needed to sign up for the WiFi and seems to be purely for marketing purposes. By clicking on the right link, you can skip it. The room was not all that large, but the space was definitely adequate. There was more than enough space for my clothes and other things. The water boiler plus complimentary tea and coffee was convenient, just as the very large safety deposit box that easily fit my 15” laptop, plus other belongings. The work desk was small and especially with a regular chair, not suitable to work at for a longer period of time. The TV was small and had a limited set of channels, but that was not so relevant for me. A detail, but really useful, is that there are sufficient power outlets and at the right place. This makes it very easy to charge your devices. The bathroom was on the small side, but fully functional and the water pressure from the showerhead was more than sufficient. Only minor thing that I've noticed in the past too, is that it requires some engineering creativity to keep the showerhead in the right position. This should definitely be improved. It is annoying and unnecessary. Last, but not at all least, was the breakfast buffet. I really enjoyed it. This is mostly a continental style buffet, but with an amazing amount of choices, including various types of fresh and very tasty breads, yoghurts, fruits, cheeses, juices, cereal, etc. This is a great example to other hotels how to serve a healthy, yet delicious breakfast.

Though we weren't expecting our rooms to be in the Kasteel itself, the accommodation in the modern blocks was corporate and dingy and though described as ”deluxe with a balcony” had no views of the ancient pile or anything of particular interest. To be honest, I have stayed in more interesting Travel Lodges in the UK and paid half the price. The whole place oozed mediocrity, from the check-in clerk who volunteered no recommendations on how to experience the Kasteel which was, in effect, sealed off to tourists, to our bathroom which had no natural light or air and a shower situated in the bath. All very disappointing. Dinner in the Old Water Mill was marred by a delay of 25 minutes before we saw a menu and extremely long gaps between courses which we put down to a shortage of kitchen staff or maybe a lack of english menus; both seemed plausible. The food itself was high quality/mid-range though definitely not gourmet or fine-dining. Oddly, Limburg wines were not included on the wine list but a very limited number of bottles from the best promoted vineyard in the region were available by the glass on request. The entremet was literally inedible though I appreciated the free glass of dessert wine I was given in compensation. Service had its faults such as asking us what we wanted to drink before we had been given any kind of drinks/wine list but was generally characterised by a sincere effort to provide attentive service. We opted not to have the breakfast buffet at 23 euros a throw and though the check-out clerk verbally acknowledged we hadn't partaken, somehow he included a line item on the bill ”breakfast excluded” which added 46 euros to the bill (yes, added) which we only discovered as we prepared to drive off. Utter stupidity and a symbolically apt end to our misadventure at Kasteel Vaalsbroek.

Superb hotel we have been able to enjoy the weather of the use of the pool service cleanness nothing to re-repeat we will come back without hesitate