Best Western Hotel

Hurried into the room after more than 16 hours of wait from Singapore to Germany including the waiting time to check in, I'm longing for a place to shower and have a rest. Friendly staff over reception is of great help to assist our enquiry about the surrounding.

Located in the central location between Stuttgart, Munich, and Lake Constance with its proximity to Ulm enables speedy arrival. Moreover the train station is just 350 meters away.

The first step and look into the room was undeniably comforting. Love the fact that the room is equipped with high speed internet connection and tastefully furnished.

Room to Balcony

The 4 Star hotel did not disappoint. Theme of the hotel is a mixture of wooden and cement layout, creating a different kind of feel.

Bird Eye view

I had a good comfortable 5 nights stay with individually controlled air conditioning. This is good especially during summer where the temperature can fluctuate at times.

Double Bed

Most rooms in the hotel have a balcony and mine was looking down to their beer garden.

View from my balcony

The most not accessed area of my stay but good for morning breather if you need some fresh air.

Balcony Seats

I'm served with a glass of 0.75 liter bottle of mineral water daily free of charge. However there are some tibits in the glass placed on the desk and chargable if you have them.

Desk

The best thing I like about the room is how bed and desk with cushion chair are all at one place with me moving about in the hotel room (Oops, the lazy me).

Bed linking to working desk and chair

The mounted television near the writing desk makes working easy ~ you can enjoy working and watching TV programs at the same time.

Television Mounted

Ditching the main streams built in furniture that most hotel has, they have this all in one island for electronic safe, clothes hanger, shoe rack and mini pantry area.

All in one

The hotel is link to a brewery and if you want some beer, it can be purchased. However you can earn it for free by participating in the "no make up room" exercise.

Crate of Beer

Interestingly, handsoap at the vanity is their house product where main ingredient of the soap is beer. The handsoap is refillable and it doesnt comes in disposable bottles that you can take home as sovenirs. Should you be interested in owning them, one can go to the reception for further enquiries. They have a white range of beer products that might sweep your feet off.

Vanity

Shower room is modernly renovated and gave me a comfortable feel as well.

Shower Area

Bed

Look at the sides of the basin, there are 2 pockets, one keeping the box of tissue paper and the other for the hair dryer.

Toilets

Similar to the shower room, the toilet is simple and clean.

Toilet

What a great stay I had. I don't mind visiting them again if there is chance. Departmental store like Muller is just a few minutes walk away and make things convenient.

Best Western Hotel
Location: Schwanengasse 18-20, 89584 Ehingen (Donau), Germany

Hotelissimo Haberstock

Hotelissimo Haberstock is located at the heart of Munich, be it that your plans is for leisure or on Business Trip, its generally a good choice of stay.

Hotel Haberstock / Hotelissimo

Based on its location, the entrance to the train station is just less than a minute away and if you want to head to the main entrance of the main train station, Haupt-Bahnhof , its just less than 5 minutes of walk. Tourists like me took advantage of its location as it is only 15 minute walk from places of interest like Marienplatz square and the Theresienwiese Oktoberfest Site.

At the Cross Junction Few Steps away from Hotel. Spot the S & U Baan Entrance / Exit

Walkable Distance to Main Train Station, less than 5 minutes

A Quiet Public Holiday Morning in Munich

The 3 Stars Hotel has ensure a pleasant stay for guests with their friendly and helpful reception service of 24 hours round the clock. Conversation in English language It does provide free Wi-Fi in all rooms as well as in public areas of the hotel. Laundry service and luggage storage is also available too.

Waiting Area near Reception

Passage Way to Hotel Rooms

Waiting Area at my room level

I was rather shocked to see the hotel room as I had expected something similar to what was actually shown on the hotel portal. Having a single room to myself for just one night was good enough with the room space. There was a electric fan in the room and CRT Television to keep my night cool.

TV Console

Shower Area in Toilet

Toilet

I was staying overnight during the peak Season and hotel room rate was at 199 EUR,  however, do note that such rate is consider relatively one of the cheapest during Oktober Fest Season.

Old School Key to room

My hotel room was just right next to the streets and during the night I can still enjoy the bustling life and culture of Munich Oktober Fest with people at the pubs over midnight throwing themselves merrily into such an occasion.

Out and down into the streets from my Hotel Room Windows

Though Hotel might be warm at night, the electric fan came in handy in circulating the air in the room.

Hotel Room with Fan

Breakfast in the hotel was not that bad either. Like most of the hotel, they have a small area for breakfast filled with typical items like, bread, cereals, cheese etc.

Breakfast Area

As I sat down, I notice a little note in English that there was friendly request available from their staff and I ordered omelette with cheese.

Note

Little Burger Patties were cute and I took them and paired along with tomato as well as cucumber slices. Though the patties were served cold, I still find them delicious and the best selection out of the breakfast area due to that I was quite bored to have the typical Bread, Cheese and Jam for the last 1 week in Germany.

Little Patties

While I thought the patties were good, the staff surprised me further with a fluffy omelette. I remembered how the aroma traveled all the way from the kitchen into the dining area and wow, what a homely taste!

Special Order from the kitchen

The idea of staying in the Centre of Munich and near to the main train station had gave me convenience to most of the places of interests, even a direct train towards Munich Airport. Overall, it was a good experience being totally alone in Europe for a day in Munich.

Main Train Station (München HBF)

Hotelissimo Haberstock
Location: Hotelissimo Haberstock D-80336 München, Schillerstr. 4
Tel.: +49(0)89-55 78 55

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Bamee

Being "stranded" in Munich Airport after given notice that my flight had been delayed for about 3 hours due to the heavy fog in Manchester, I went round and round the departure area for window shopping before coming to a conclusion that I should have some food before the flight.

This is not the first time I had visited Bamee and I remembered how expensive their meals were during my last trip to Munich. Therefore I was hesitant to buy a meal from them initially.

Bamee

Being lost with the choice of food on it menu, I'm kind of enlightened when I overheard some of the Singapore Air Stewardess that their Roasted Duck is good and I decided to give it a try though it was one of the most expensive dishes on the Menu board.

The authenticity of the meal is never a question to me as most of them are from Thailand from the way they had conversed in their mother tongue language. I ordered my meal without additional drink as it costs me 6 Euros (that's about $10 SGD) for any regular cup of juices displayed.

Buzzer

In exchange for the buzzer, I received my meal with a generous bowl of rice served in a elegant plate together with the Roasted Duck in Red Curry. The smell and the look of it drove my stomach crazier. It groans louder and faster literally.

Geang Ped Yang - 16,90 Euros

The crispy roasted duck was really good and red curry was not too spicy. Vegetables like long beans, capsicums and cherry tomatoes were included in the curry too. The sweet tasting curry was a perfect go to the bowl of white rice.

Red Curry

Coming from an Asian perspective, the bowl of Roasted Duck with Red Curry was creditable and left me a very good ending trip in Munich. I'm glad I made a wise choice to follow the recommendations of the Air Stewardess.

Besides having self service at collection, it would be a good practice to keep your empty dishes at the collection point after dining.

Curry

Rating: 4 / 5

Bamee
Location: Terminal 1, Departures C, Munich, Germany

Asia Bistro Ha Noi

Reaching Memmingen on a Sunday Morning and I had insisted that I will skip the Kerbabs, pizza, Doner and Subway on the first day as I quite bored with those food. After walking rounds and rounds along the streets where majority of the shops were closed, I came into conclusion to try out Asia Bistro Ha Noi which located in Schrannenplatz.

Hanoi Bistro

Reading the menu was tough as it was all in German and without English explanation though the staff were Asians. Since it was from Vietnam, I did a try by asking if Pho is available and unfortunately there was no such dish. He asked if I want to have chicken noodle and I agreed without further hesitation as I was quite hungry.

Menu

Initially I thought it was soup noodle as I was still thinking along "Pho" line and it came to me as a surprised that it was stirred fried with vegetables like shredded carrots and beansprouts. Taste was not as expected and noodle was dry but its consider relatively good to find Asian Food in this small town.

Huhnerfleisch Chop-Suey - 5.30 Eur

Wasser - 1.70

Having seen the customer crowd and orders they made, I realized that they do not solely served Asian Food, and its more like they have accustomed the German Culture and food was more of fusion. Still, I wish there is Pho here.

Simple Interior

Rating: 3 / 5

Asia Bistro Ha Noi
Location: Schrannenplatz . 87700 Memmingen, Germany

Engelkeller Restaurant

Engelkeller is located within walking distance (about 5 minutes) away from my hotel and it was recommended by my colleague who has been there before. Initially, i never thought I had the chance to visit them during my recent trip but coincidentally, during my last night's accommodation in Memmingen I was rejected by a restaurant as I'm dining alone and find that it's quite absurd.

Engelkeller

As I pushed and opened the doors of the restaurant, I was very please with a smiley face welcoming my presence and politeness of the waitress. I was more than happy when they said they have an English Menu and offered me to a table of 4 instead.

Comfortable Interior

Interior Dining

As soon as I have seated down, I made my choice of drink and ordered a glass of apple juice. Apple juice was on the sour side.

Apple Juice - 2.70

Engelteller is one of the available main courses. Its an interesting course which consist of grilled beef, pork and turkey with herbal butter, 3 bunches of stirred fried asparagus with bacon and gratinated potatoes. They were good with brown sauces.

"Engelteller" - 16,80 Euros

The top layer of potato gratin was beautifully adorn with vegetables sprouts and was charred which lends a good crisp. Not only that it was addictive in its milky and soften layers of potatoes.

Potato Gratins

Suprisingly the meat were rather tender just that turkey meat has intermittent funny smell which i was not too comfortable with. Herbal butter was elegantly place on a slice of lemon. Initially I though the slice was a turnip and bite on it, only to let the sour taste awaken me instantly.

Meat platter

Overall meal was enjoyable in  a cosy ambiance. Dining alone in foreign country was not too bad either, besides getting culture shock from the earlier restaurant for rejecting single dine in.

Rating: 3.25 / 5

Engelkeller
Location: Martin Laupheimer, Königsgraben 9 87700 Memmingen
Business Hours: Daily from 10am - 11pm (warm kitchen till 10.30pm)
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