Gästehaus By George

This stone building has the same footing with the Royal Castle which you can see from the window. Open the door - and you are a few feet away from the Palace. This is the best location to be for people who like historical Stolberg and want to walk around the Royal palace, old streets and see historical Cemeteries. Across the door is the restaurant By George with extremely tasty food and cheerful waitresses. You need to get the keys from the door in this restaurant from the waitress because there is no hotel desk at all, and two or three rooms of this hotel are actually 4-story fully equipped apartments with narrow and steep stairs and no elevator. You can probably feel how people lived here hundreds years ago.

This hotel is the best for people who are travelling alone or together with someone who can share with you the same twin-size bed on the 4th floor. If you are together, and one of you sleep on the 4th floor, and another on the 3rd floor, prepare for the trouble: the extremely squeaky floor, stairs and bed make your friend downstairs unable to sleep well. Especially when you walk by stairs in the middle of the night to the bathroom located on the 1st floor. If you have a heavy laggage, even 23 kg (50 Lbs) suitcase, taking it upstairs would be very hard, and taking it back downstairs even harder. The stairs are less than 2 feet wide and very steep. It is better to keep your laggage downstairs in the room with kitchen and bathroom. The heating was turned off in the middle of the night at my last day of stay (probably, this is a way to save the money on heating), so in the morning we get a shower with only cold water. It was refreshing however. It is better to travel without a car. If you have a car, remember that: there is no parking next to your door. After arriving you can temporarily park at the left on the narrow stone street under the sign "By George". You will be blocking some other merchant's window, but it is OK. Leave your car locked and go to the restaurant By George and ask the waitress for the keys and instruction. They will take you to your room, explain the rules, and charge your credit card. Then you can go back to your car, take and bring your laggage to the room. After that you need to drive up by this narrow street about 200 yards until you can find a wider area to turn your car in the opposite direction. Drive down the street to the city parking lot located in the walking distance from By George. (They will give you a map.) This is a second level (the roof) of small city mall. There is one particular parking spot with the sign "By George" where you can park free for any time.