My family is from Frankfurt, so I’m quite familiar with the area, and seem to have quite a few overnights there. Back in the day I’d just spend those overnights with family, though they all live a bit further from the airport now than in the past. So now I just stay at hotels.
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Love smoked salmon, but refuse to have it at any buffet that doesn't keep it chilled.
Too many times my stomach does not approve.
I've stayed at that particular Hilton Garden Inn more than once. For a mid-range hotel, it's quite nice, and you can't beat the location—not only are you a short indoor walk away from the terminal, but you're right above all the services of the Squaire. That said, the Wi-Fi situation in the rooms there is indeed pretty terrible. They need to work on it.
Big fan of HGIs, especially here in NYC. The one in Chelsea often has rates around $100 during off-peak times and is convenient to my office, so I use it as a pied-a-terre when I have to work late nights. TBH, I don't see much difference between them and regular Hiltons, aside from price.
We have stayed at all 3 of these hotels since our daughter lives in the area. We like to take the train back to the airport and stay overnight before our flight home.
The Sheraton is close to the airport but there are more restaurants open later in the train station area. And there is a nice full grocery store if you want drinks or snacks. But great choices for an airport!
We stayed here a few months ago. We had difficulty finding it (even ended up in the Sheraton lobby at one point!) but that was probably due to our fatigue rather than poor signage.
Once there we enjoyed it and would happily stay again.
Lucky, too bad you couldn't use the desk for work/wi-fi. IMO, the Herman Miller chair is the best thing about the HGI rooms.
We stayed there last summer for a couple of nights, paid about 109 E on a promo. Good place, good staff, lots of amenities in the train station and easy to catch a train into town. We also had trouble finding it due to the lack of signage. You have to turn left just before you get to the Sheraton.
Wow never seen a hilton garden for 500.00 and stay at a lot last year 105 nights - thank god for points
Stayed here for 2 weeks last year on business. Loved the location, especially being right on top of a train station with easy access to downtown Frankfurt. Strangely, my favorite thing about this hotel was......the water. The water was so nice, I ended up taking a bath every day!
One of my favorite hotels in FRA is actually the Kempinski. It's 15min outside of Frankfurt, though it's really nice! It's actually one of the nicest hotels I've been at.
Stayed at all three Frankfurt airport hotels in the last fortnight. For me number 1 was the Hilton, number 2 Hilton Garden Inn and a distant third the Sheraton. Newer rooms do it for me more than anything else.
@ SSNS -- Were you in a non-club/non-renovated room at the Sheraton? If so, don't blame you.
Ben, ho much longer is the walk to the HGI compared to Sheraton? is it easy to find if one doesn't speak German? thank you.
OK, thank you. pondering whether i want to spend 40k HH or 10k SPG... hmmmm...
@ Lantean -- Ultimately Starpoints are more flexible. If you're not SPG Platinum, I'd probably go with the Hilton.
OK, thank you. that's what i though so too. The regular Hilton FRA airport has executive room on sale for 48k points (which is less than they charge for a standard room)... since i do not have Hilton status (I mean i have silver... lol) i think i'll book that just to get club lounge access and a nicer room.
Oh, this reminds me...
If you're staying overnight at the Hilton or the HGI at The Squaire in order to fly out of the LH FCT the next day, you *don't* need to walk it if you don't want to. My wife and I stayed there over the holidays, and she felt under the weather, so wasn't really in great shape to make that long walk outside in the cold. Leaving the Hilton or HGI, there's a set of doors on the west side of the building (away from the terminal), next to the elevators that lead down from L5 to L3. The doors aren't far from the Starbucks. If you step out there, you'll find a taxi stand. We explained in English (our German isn't great) that we wanted to go to the FCT and the driver knew exactly what we meant.
I can't remember the amount of the fare. It wasn't much, though perhaps a bit more than you might think because the driver has to do a very long loop along freeways to get to the FCT. In any case, we generously rounded up and he seemed satisfied with the fare. It was well worth it to simply be able to get in the cab, pull up to the FCT, and have them take care of everything from there.
Recommended, unless you feel like you need the walk.
I'll add to the comments on the wifi - it was pretty terrible! It's certainly not a room thing, but seems to be with the whole hotel. A real pain when trying to check-in online...
Why the rooms weren't a metre longer (geez, it's not like they didn't have the space) is beyond me. That desk was too large, and I can't see why they didn't wall-mount the TV. With two people in the room, it got a little cramped.
However, yes, it was a good location and reasonably priced - would consider staying there again.