If you approach the town from the other side of the Rhine, you notice this ugly building between all the ancient ones. Well, that is the hotel. Once inside, it gets much better. Some rooms have balconies with Rhine views, others of the town. Stein am Rhein is a small town, so everything is in walking distance. The train station is on the other side of the river, a 15-minute walk. The hotel has a nice pool with daylight, not too small and not too cold. There is also a sauna and solarium. The hotel bar is strange indeed, with integrated dancefloor and disco lights. On that evening we were the only guests until some others arrived (it was around 10.30 p.m., what you would expect to be a typical hotel bar hour). Breakfast with a wide choice of everything, unusual range of newspapers with breakfast; at least 5 or 6 different ones.

Hotels seems to used a lot for seminars, they have lots of meeting rooms of different size, but nothing going on when we were there.

Very 80's from the "local Disco" inside the hotel to the pink and grey rooms, and so so restaurant. If you find yourself marooned in this little corner of Switzerland (it doesnt feel swiss, it could be anywhere) you could do worse. The in place to be ( when Duran Duran were No. 1 in the charts) but now you can see past its 1960's shoe factory origins. To sum up if you must do.. but really dont bother