THE HOTEL
The hotel has 342 rooms, including
14 suites and a presidential suite. Rooms either
have a Front view, a Park view, or they are corner
suites. The corner suites are very spaceous, with
floor-to-ceiling windows in a corner of the room
with a gigantic view either to the park or to
the Commercial District.
The guests
About 60% of this hotel's guests are members of
Hilton Honors, which is a higher score than on
any other hotel's loyality program. Approximately
80% of Hilton Frankfurt's guests are business
travelers, who come here to find the rest and
personal attention they need.
Dining and drinking
Besides the Vista Bar oppsosite the hotel's reception
desk, there is the Asian Bar, formerly know as
the Buddha Bar. Designed to attract not only the
hotel guests but also the cities Upper Class and
wannabe-Upper-Class, the Asian Bar is open till
2am, which makes it the only place in Frankfurt
open for a late night / early morning meal or
drink.
(Note that during the summer period the bar is
closed till October).
In hotel restaurants, a Sunday
brunch almost is a regular. Not in Hilton's Pacific
Colors restaurant, where the Sunday Brunch has
been replaced with a California Sunday Lunch with
fresh fish, fresh fruits, and outdoor buffets
if weather permits.
Normally, lunches are menus, whilst dinner is
a buffet.
Art in the hotel
The hotel is home to a vast modern art collection,
which is subject to change at least 3-4 times
each year.
The whole hotel is helt in a modern design, which
is especially characterised by the generous use
of glass (approx. 10.000 qm2)
Safety
Because of its unique architecture, this hotel
was exlaimed by Frankfurt's fire brigades as the
safest hotel in the city. All the rooms are built
around one central area. In case of fire, (xxx)
closes and the roof opens, which makes the entire
building like one giant chimney, giving the guest
the possibility to leave the building safely.
Silence
Perfect insulation by double glazing and - very
important - there are no rooms next to any of
the elevators.
If you are looking for a quiet hotel, this is
the place.
Indoor swimming pool,
fitness
The hotel's swimming pool is a 25m half olympic
size indoor pool, also with floor-to-ceiling windows
and a view on the park behind the hotel. The pool
is the largest you will find with a hotel in Europe,
Adjacent to the pool is the fitness room, which
is part of a chain of 450 fitness clubs throughout
Germany.
Here you find 200 sqm with the
latest in fitness technology and with personal
trainers to assist you. Jaccuzis, whirlpool and
an all-nude sauna make this an all-in health centre.
Both the swimming pool and the fitness club are
also accessible to non-hotel guests.
ROOMS AND SUITES
926 - Standard room
Equipped with a King Size bed, a desk with modem
connection and LAN/DSL connection, minibar, bathroom
wth separate bath/shower, color tv, coffee/tea
maker.
Besides the rooms with King Size beds, there's
also the choice of Double and Twin.
Rooms on the Executive floors are, beyond that,
equipped with a printer/fax, SONY Playstation
and a stereo.
1106 - Truman Suite
This corner suite with a nice view on the southeast
and the Eschenheimer Turm (year) is a true suite
with two separate rooms, unlike in some other
hotels where any room with an extra chair is called
'suite'.
Equipment as usual, with an extra large minibar
though, a dining table, and a bedroom separated
from the living room cq office by a door.
1201 - Kennedy Suite
The hotel's presidential suite, which has been
the home of people like Britney Spears, Joe Cocker,
Sting and Cher.
Extra spaceous with a view on the southwest, high
quality audio equipment, extra corners with seats,
couches and tables, a separate kitchen, extra
large cupboards and a double bathroom.
Extra detail
The bathrooms are equipped with some small details,
and although you don't see them, you will definitely
experience the advantages of, for example, heated
mirrors. So no more steamed up mirrors. And what
about separate bath and shower... taking a shower
in your bathtub is out of time!
Executive rooms
The business rooms, aka the rooms on the hotel's
three executive floors, are all equipped with
a printer/fax device and installation software,
which provide you with ultimate comfort and privacy
- obviously don't want your important and confidential
documents to end up at a hotel's reception desk.
Initially only the two top floors (11th and 12th)
were for executive rooms. But since the demand
for these rooms on the quiet executive floors
became so high, managament decided also to make
half of the number of rooms on the 10th floor
available for this purpose.
At the two executive lounges,
you can serve yourself a free breakfast, snacks,
beverages of all types and pre-dinner canapées.
PERSONAL TOUCH
A very good way to make your customers satisfied,
keep them happy and keep them coming back, is
by adding a personal touch to each visit. Did
you find a glass of fresh mango juice in your
room when you came back from dinner? On your next
visit, be assured that you will *not* find a glass
of mango juice, but something else instead!
If you want to give people a VIP treatment, there
are two options: either you don't do it at all,
or you do it in a way so that it will be remembered
for life.
BUSINESS FACILITIES,
CONFERENCE ROOMS
With the large amounts of business
travelers in this hotel, connectivity is a keyword.
WLAN (Wireless LAN) is available anywhere in the
hotel, as are DSL and LAN connections. A short
term subscription to the hotel's WLAN services
is availiable at fair prices, starting at EUR10
for 1 hour.
Conference rooms
The hotel also offers 14 conference rooms, one
of which is the Liberty Ballroom that can be used
for banquets, product presentations and the like.
One floor down are the business rooms, from small
to big. Most of these rooms have the HMQ certificate,
(Hilton Meeting Qualification), which just means
they comply to a number of Hilton standards such
as connectivity, a coffee machine and certain
safety procedures.
Even the Holopro technology is availabe in the
'Wall Street' room, which simply displays a 3D
holographic image of one of the meeting's participants.
Who said Star Trek?
The mentioned Wall Street room is a typical board
meeting room. Next to it we find the Fifth Avenue
room, where tables can be placed like in a classroom,
or in a U-shape, whichever suits.
TravelStayRelax Magazine
RATING
5/5
CONCLUSION
Wow.
Hochstraße 4
60313 Frankfurt am Main
Deutschland
Telefon: 0049 69 1338 000
Fax: 0049 69 1338 20
website
Article by Marco 't Hart, Pictures by
MW, Marco 't Hart - August 2004
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