Simm's Hotel - Cityhotel Next to Metro U3

Good location, just next to metro station. Could supermarket just next door, 20 minutes to the downtown. Clean, good breakfast

I liked the hotel. The staff was friendly. The reception and also the houskeeping. And they all know english. But I had a problem with the heating panel in my room. You can set the temperature in your room, it's good but the panel after a little time you're not using it it turns off. That's not a problem at all. The problem starts when it reboots itself with white flashing lights in the evening at 2 am, and it changes your temperature settings also. There's no built in cover so I woke up to those flashes. Then when I almost fell asleep, it flashed again and also turned on my heater with full power and loud noises. After that I called the reception if they can turn it off or do something, but they said they cannot do anything about it, but they suggested to cover it with something. I did and then it wasn't a problem anymore, but I wouldn't say I was the only one with this problem. I would suggest them to place a plastic thing so you can cover it and it wouldn't look so bad in the room and won't woke up the guests. A hotel's main priority would be so the guests can sleep peacefully in their room. I was in the hotel for three days (two nights), and on night I couldn't sleep well. I'm really sad about that, because the hotel itself I can't say anything else bad but this. So it's also a good thing. Maybe, I will come back again if they'll fix this because I LOVED this city, and this was definitely not the last time I came as a tourist.

Trip Advisor Simms hotel feedback My wife and I have just returned from a three day break with Newmarket travel, sold as a ‘Vienna Christmas Markets’ package. Our hotel was the Hotel Simms, positioned in district 11 (Vienna has 23 municipal districts, the centre being district 1), the hotel was fantastic and worthy of its four star rating. The rooms were warm, clean and quiet, the breakfasts provided for every taste, a combination of hot food and continental breakfasts. My only criticism of the hotel itself would be the TV channels! Out of around 50 channels I could only find one English speaking news channel provided by a French TV service! Like most people I don’t go on holiday to watch TV but there are times in the room when you do want to watch some TV and although a lot of the TV content was in English there were no subtitles! Why can’t the hotel look into providing more channels in English? However, my biggest problem with the hotel was its location and distance from the centre of Vienna! The area was described as a student area and although I don’t know what this means exactly I did see a couple a street beggars nearby the hotel and also in constant view was a massive building with a bright red sign saying ‘Sex Shop’; the surrounding area looked very run-down and depressing. I know there is an underground nearby and a frequent tram service available but personally I don’t want to be using public transport at night to get around. Also a lot of the trams I saw were crammed with people and mask wearing was compulsory. In terms of eating out nearby the hotel and finding nice restaurants, forget it, we counted about six kebab shops, three pizza takeaways and one pub. On our first night we went to this pub (over the road from the hotel) and the food and service was very good. However, on the next two evenings it was closed, including the Saturday night! If you are thinking of choosing this hotel and want to be close to the real Vienna I would strongly advise looking elsewhere, unless of course you are a student! Stephen Ward