Amedia Plaza Dresden

We booked this place specifically because it was downtown, had parking, laundry, large rooms, and hardwood floors. Parking was full. Usually if this is likely to happen, the listing will say "limited parking", but it did not. There was no public laundry room. You could give your stuff to housekeeping but they wanted to charge per item, between 4-11€, which is an extremely high price for a full bag of laundry. We booked the comfort room plus, but they gave us the twin room, and said it would still be the same price. Supposedly they are allowed to give you a room with a higher ceiling and charge for a larger room. They said only the corner rooms look like the photos. The hardwood floors were very nice and it didn't have the usual hotel stink, but the pillows had a light scalp smell and there were a few small hair clippings under the blanket. Also, the hair dryer shuts off after about a minute of use and you have to wait 5-10 minutes to use it again.

Overall this is a good choice and I would recommend without reservation given price via booking dot com, excellent location for tourists, very helpful staff and size of room. There is an excellent, good value breakfast available in the Eiscafe at the bottom of the building as well as many other nearby restaurants so don't book the rate that includes hotel breakfast. There is a car park but it's very expensive and needs to be booked in advance. Order a P card from Contipark and park in the Semperoper car park for a fraction of the cost. There were a few very minor things that could be easily improved with slightly better attention to detail e.g. small area of skirting board not clean, loose handle on bathroom door missing the rose, insufficient cups and spoons. There was no compendium/hotel information obviously available, which was problematic because we had difficulties that needed to be solved by asking staff, which was annoying, such as the airconditioning/heating is totally unintuitive so we needed a lesson on how to use it and no one told us that it doesn't come on if the balcony doors are open. There's no kettle in the room - you have to ask for it but you wouldn't know to ask because it doesn't say anywhere what's available on request. We were given some ice as someone in our party had an injury but we didn't know that was available. Who knows how many other things we could have had upon request.

We visited Dresden at the cultural summer highlight - the Dresden festival Canalleto! The hotel is at the heart of the old town and is one hand distance away from all major sightseeing and the evening programme of the festival! We checken in earlier as our room was ready for us at lunch time with no additional hustle of a fee or eyebrow from the staff! The frienldy excellent staff at the registry desk accommodated us with all requests- from change of pillows to getting an iron for our clothing and in 5-10 minutes time! Our room was overseeing the inner court yard making this hotel peaceful and quiet paradise to rest amidst the night crazyness of the festival! Really happy with this hotel and its effective helpful staff ! Of course that comes at the corresponding price.