Sorell Hotel Arabelle

Arabelle was a basic, clean and affordable hotel with minimum amenities. Situated in a mixed residential/retail quarter of Bern, it is 15 min walk from the old quarter and the botanical gardens. The european breakfast buffet had the usual breads, meats, cheeses, yogurts and cereals and a very welcome caffine machine.

The room was somewhat dated in furnishings which would suggest the price was a little steep as I've stayed in simular hotels in Germany for about a third less cost.

distance to city center

1. good housekeeping, good breakfast, good facilities & reasonable price.

Spacious room

wooden floor made sound whenever we walked around

The value for the money was quite good, at a two-star hotel, one cannot expect too much, but the room was fairly clean and the beds weren't too bad at all. The breakfast was quite good and the windows kept a lot of the street noise out. I was happy to find a city map and attraction guide in the room. The hotel wasn't a bad drive from the center of the city, although for walking it was way too far (about 3 miles).

The shower was a bit moldy and the shower door was broken (but we did have plenty of hot water!!). I was really glad we were on the top floor as the wooden floorboards were extremely squeaky and I felt bad for the people under us. There was not abundent parking on the street, we got lucky finding a spot fairly close to the hotel.