The hotel is very nice, clean, moderately friendly staff. Easy to get around.
A few criticisims, the right hand lefr screams out the floor level. Quite shovking the first time. You can hear on tje 6th floor perfectly when it says ground floor.
Secondly my biggest problem is that the hotel is surrounded by building works from the city which wasn't written anywhere before or after I booked, and the hotel didn't seem to care when I notified/politely complained that it was constant from 0730 on my first day of arrival luckily for myself if wasn't so bad the second 2 mornings.
I wouldn't recommend this hotel, because of the construction for another 18 months or so.
Also I am now aware that the hotel has only been open 6 months or so, and I also work in service, but the competanacy of most of the staff seems that they haven't had enough training. If it was one or two I would assume they were brand new and wouldn't have a problem at all.
Also a handful of the bar staff in the foyer bar are quite unfriendly/rude, they talk/shout to you across the bar, don't seem bothered about customer service at all, especially in the morning. Again I work in service so I know the importance of this and also understand it can be hard to be happy and smiley all the time especially when you have personal problems. But a bit of effort would be nice.
Otherwise hotel is clean, and has good transport links also not far to walk to the harbour, maritime museum and speicherstadt.