Cabinn Arhus

It's probably all relative. What is cheap to some people is bloody expensive to others. Call me a cheapskate, but the value for money ratio at the Cabinn Arhus was to my opinion below average.

The hotel itself is located in a building that also houses a bank, a law firm and a restaurant, so it kind of gets confusing when taking the elevator from the parking garage and finding yourself on the second floor, where there are no rooms.

The unfriendly and bored looking person at the reception desk failed to mention this to me. He also failed to mention that in order to drive into the parking garage, it would be best if you were driving something the size of a handbag. Thankfully I drive a small car. Larger cars leave nice colored stripes on the walls. As far as 'secure parking' goes, it may be secure if someone bothers to lock the back gate. For this you pay an additional 80DKK per night, mind you.

The hotel room is small and with the green sheets on the tiny beds, reminds you of an O.R. The bathroom is suffocatingly tiny and a manual is applied to work the fosset and shower. One wrong operation and you need to change your clothes.

There is a minuscule TV, which gets 6 channels, as long as you have a remote. We had one on our first night, but it had magically disappeared on our second night. When I went down to reception to ask for it, I was given another which didn't work. When I went down again to mention this, one of the guys went to another guest room and took the remote there. 'See if this one works,' he said, 'or I'll take one from another room.' Guess that solved the mystery of where our remote had gone to.

Throughout our stay, there was a distinct toilet smell in the hallways and in the 'lounge', which is probably why nobody bothered hanging out there.

But it wasn't all negative. We had a coffee maker, which is always a plus. Unless ofcourse they don't refill the coffee the next day...