Hotel Zum Abschlepphof

A lot of little things made my stay just OK. My single room was clean, but small. It is in a sort of attic, so it really heats up on bright sunny days. While the neighborhood is quiet, the immediate environs are surprisingly noisy because of a nearby freight train line, and a cobblestoned street leading to a nearby commercial area that gets a lot of traffic in the morning. The management was only present for a few hours in the morning, and had a no-nonsense, distant attitude that is rare in family-run German establishments. For off hours guests are given a key to enter the hotel via a side entrance that has no access to the elevator. The decor could use some updating. The yellow walls and unpleasant crimson carpeting could use some TLC. Transportation to the center city was excellent, thanks to a fast, reliable tram. The nearby Messe (trade fair) Bahnhof makes it possible to avoid Leipzig's cavernous main railroad station. However, the surrounding neighborhood is a mixture of commercial and suburban residential, and has little or nothing to recommend to a visitor. The breakfast is decent, and seems to vary depending on how full the hotel was (on a busy weekend the breakfast was generous, on quiet weekday mornings it was a bit lacking). There's nothing really wrong with Zum Abschlepphof, but nothing that would make me want to stay here again unless I had to.