Hotel Der Akademie Heinrich Pesch Haus

I seem to be the first person writing about this hotel since July 2018 which seems a shame because there is nothing fundamentally wrong with it. It is extremely basic (my single room contained a single bed, a single pillow, a desk, a chair, a couple of lamps, a TV, a fan, four walls and a ceiling) but, no safe, extra pillows or air conditioning. That last point was a particular problem since my visit coincided with the heatwave that spread across Europe. Oh, it also had an unbelievably powerful shower. i have used car washes with less pressure. The breakfast room looked like a school canteen, the whole place was eerily quiet and the fixtures and fittings had not been updated since at least the 1980s. Nothing was dirty or broken, it was just old. I chose Heinrich Pesch because it was very cheap and I was in the area for the weekend to attend the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim and I had a car so didn't mind the 25 minute drive to the circuit. In this respect, the hotel was excellent. Apart from the room being like a sauna, it was big enough for one person, the WiFi was excellent, breakfast plentiful, car park huge and fairly secure, staff helpful and place itself easy to find. They even threw a barbecue one night which wasn't bad either, even if the meat desperately needed seasoning. All of this for around €220 for three nights I think is astonishingly good value. If I attend the race again and have a rental car, I would definitely consider this hotel if everything closer was very expensive. It's one of the most basic hotels I have frequented for a very long time, but it did what I wanted to absolutely perfectly.