Stadthotel Freilassing

Centrally located in Freilassing, near shops and restaurants, with easy access to Salzburg. Guests praise the comfortable beds, cleanliness, and friendly staff. The breakfast menu is varied and of high quality.

The hotel is in a charming little town close to Salzburg, not far away from the train station. Staff were welcoming and friendly. There is a selection of reasonably-priced cold drinks at reception, which may come in very handy on Sundays when everything is closed, including most of the restaurants in the area. For a winter, or other cool month, stay this place would be perfect, but... During my stay, the outside temperatures were consistently over 30 C. The room temperature was at least 10 C above the outside temperature as the room received the afternoon sun from about 12 pm to sunset. There was no air conditioning and no block-out curtains (the heavy fabric curtains could use a liner that reflects the sun away from the windows). The hotel has a fly screen, which they call a sun screen. Unfortunately, it's not a sun screen. The little fan did not provide much relief, even when I put it in front of the open window at night. There was also no fridge in the room where one could keep cool drinks or a cold compress. In short, there was no escaping the heat: It was hot outside and it was even hotter inside. I stayed 3 nights and suffered severe heat stress. I only recovered from it a day after leaving that place. My room was also right next to the entrance door to the corridor; each time the door slammed shut, it woke me up. This is not due to the guests staying there, but due to the spring-based locking mechanism that makes it almost impossible to gently close the door by hand. From the second day onwards, staff put a door stopper there, which helped reduce the noise until people removed the door stopper. All up, I was sleep deprived, hot, and exhausted all the time. By the time I left, I was utterly miserable and physically ill. If I had to do it again, I would pay more and stay directly in Salzburg.