Manhattan Hotel

Hotel is across from the main train station and walking distance (less than 10 mins) from the Frankfurt Messe. Room was spacious, very clean, excellent breakfast buffet. I like that you can use stairs instead of elevator to get to your floor. All good. Where the hotel exceeded expectations was in the attention to detail and the staff. A greeting and a smile from the cleaning staff in the corridor; not just a cup of coffee but a whole can left on your table at breakfast - and most of all: a small, beautifully decorated hotel bar with a great bartender/host. Every hotel guest gets a welcome drink and when I went over to pick up mine, I stayed around for an hour or so - was given some great food - and saw this happen: row of guys at the bar, some talking, some watching their phones, some all alone. Cocktails being prepared, conversation started flowing, in the end everyone was talking to each other. Really lovely. Great bartender!

Nothing the hotel could help. The street the hotel is on is fine, but the streets behind the hotel are definitely seedy - sex shops, gambling halls, homeless people in groups etc. It did not feel unsafe, I walked through them both at night as in daytime, just unpleasant.