Hotel & Restaurant Christian IV

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : Breakfast contents were set the night before, and then served at the table in the morning. Really nice and peaceful as an alternative to a huge breakfast buffet where guests are moving all the time. We did like it.
  : Nothing really, except that 100+ EUR a night digs a bit too deep in the wallet.

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Disappointing
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : When my wife and I stayed at the Christian IV two years ago it was a wonderful experience with good food and fantastic staff. Unfortunately the hotel seems to have changed hands and not for the better. We booked the suite for this visit but were not told that this was at the very top of the building. With no lift and no porter facilities it was a major struggle for two elderly people to climb the many stairs.We often use suites when travelling and look forward to a well stocked bar and complimentary flowers or a bowl of fruit. The Christian IV offered a cheap pkt of Gummibears (See below picture) and an empty fridge with accompanying price list for the obviously absent contents. Whoever has got his hands upon this previously excellent hotel seems determined to run it into the ground by cost cutting.
  : Just about everything. For the evening meal I ordered a Vienna Snitzel. This was served with uncooked old potatoes complete with black spots while all around Gluckstad fresh new potatoes were in abundance and this was accompanied by some sort of indescribable sauce fresh out of a packet. For breakfast, while the ham and cheese were excellent the allegedly scrambled egg was a totally revolting concoction of unseasoned half mixed egg burnt unenthusiastically in a frying pan swimming with grease and topped for strange reason with chopped spring onions. This accompanied by cold bitter coffee which seems to have been made some hours before it was served. The enthusiastic staff of our last visit has been replaced by a very pleasant but badly trained young lady who appears to be a maid of all trades being waitress, barmaid, receptionist and general dogsbody and is not a lot of good at any of these occupations. For example, condiments are not provided with meals and apparently sugar is still under ration in Germany as two small packets were our allowance when we requested extra to attempt to sweeten the revolting coffee.

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : Excellent breakfast, amazing staff. The room was better than we expected, very clean and modern. Everything worked perfectly.