The Holiday Inn Express Bochum is located right in the buzzing city center of Bochum, North-Rhine Westphalia. Stepping out of the hotel, you will find yourself in the middle of the big shopping district. A subway station is located 350 meters from the hotel, it is only a 10-minute walk to Bochum central station and the freeway A40 which connects you to all major cities of the Metropolitan Region Ruhrgebiet is a 2,5 km drive away. With Dortmund (32km) and Düsseldorf International (42km) you’ll have easy access to two major airports. Once an industrial city Bochum has moved from coal mines and steel industry to the service sector. The Ruhr University Bochum is one of the largest universities in Germany, many science meetings and events take place at either Ruhrcongress or Jahrhunderthalle. You can still feel what it was like digging for coal by visiting the “Deutsches Bergbau-Museum” and descent down to the visitor coal mine. Don’t miss the next show of “Starlight Express” - the musical by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. And after an exciting day, turn into the “Bermuda3eck” - the famous Entertainment district where you can find anything from Street Food to Fine Dining, from Movie Theaters to art and Karaoke pubs. When it’s finally time to wind down, enjoy what the Holiday Inn Express Bochum has to offer - free Wi-Fi, air-conditioned rooms, our 24/7 Express Café & Bar and in the morning start your day right with our included Express Breakfast.
2024.05.14
The hotel is in the centre of Bochum, exit the hotel and you are in the centre. Parking is underneath the hotel in a public garage for an acceptable daily rate. Beds great, but the bedlinnen for a double bed is so small that one person is left out in the cold. Hotel is brand new. Loved the hotel. Breakfast great except the juices. Friendly staff. What needs improvement: The mentioned bed linnen / covers. The hotel needs to do something about that. I do not know what kind of ”juice” comes out of the machine at breakfast, but you really cannot call this orange juice.
This review does not refer to the hotel, but only to the restaurant in the hotel building. The hotel is located at the end of a rather densely built residential street with chaotic parking conditions. The hotel does have its own parking lot and a small parking garage, but even this fills up quite quickly, especially when large family gatherings are held in the restaurant. The rooms of the restaurant can be found by passing through some rather confusing and winding corridors. The ambience is a bit old-fashioned. The service is not really professional, which you notice during the whole stay. Even the payment process only works reasonably promptly if you intercept your waitress at the billing computer. You have to wait a long time before you get the chance to reorder drinks. So you sit for quite a long time in front of empty glasses. But now to the main thing: food. Various schnitzels are offered with French fries and a side salad. The salad is okay, but the schnitzel not at all. The meat is dried out, the breading has a consistency that corresponds to that of frozen products. The whole product is too salty and not really edible. Thus, several guests ate the schnitzel only in part. And this was not noticed by the waitress. It was also not asked at all whether the food was okay. The fries, on the other hand, were edible. A very long time ago, this was a recommendable restaurant where many locals liked to eat.