Hotel Mariandl and Café am Beethovenplatz

A hotel of around 1900 above a café

The Mariandl occupies the upper floors of a Belle Époque house, built around 1900 and protected as a monument, on Goethestraße, next to Beethovenplatz. Downstairs is the Café am Beethovenplatz, a café with coffered ceilings in red and white and glass lamps, where live musicians play every day without raising the volume. The hotel warns you of what it does not have: no flat-screen televisions, no carpet, no lift, no lobby. You are handed the key at the café's mahogany bar and climb the original oak staircase, already worn. Upstairs there is antique furniture, parquet more than a hundred years old, marble, plaster ceilings and chandeliers.

The rooms and prices

Almost all have their own bathroom and toilet, some with a freestanding bath; a few share a shower in the corridor or have it across from the door, and cost less. The website publishes three rates. In normal season, a double with shower in the corridor from €84, a double with its own shower from €99 and a double with bath from €135; a single with shower, from €89. At trade fairs they go up (a double with shower, from €178) and at the Oktoberfest there is a fixed price: €178 for a double with shower and €198 with bath. An extra bed costs from €45. Breakfast is a buffet in the ground-floor café; the website does not say whether it is included in the price, so check when you book.

Getting there and parking

From the airport, take the S1 or S8 S-Bahn to the main station (the hotel estimates about €10) and then walk ten minutes along Goethestraße, or take bus 58 to the Beethovenplatz stop. The nearest U-Bahn stations are Sendlinger Tor and Goetheplatz (U3 and U6). There is no parking of its own and the street is pay-and-display; at reception they sell a parking permit reduced to €5 for 24 hours. The Oktoberfest, on the Theresienwiese, is about 500 metres away.