Usually I look carefully at all Trip Advisor reviews and if there is a glaring negative, I will not book that hotel. I should have listened to "Travelling Rover - May 2008" and some of the other "smaller" comments made by TA reviewers. But I didn't and it was the worst hotel experience of my life. I was having 2nd thoughts about this hotel before we left home, but since we'd put so much effort into searching for hotels (and we needed 8) I thought "How bad could it be?" The next time that little voice in my head speaks, I will listen to it!

We arrived in Cochem on our first day in Europe. The Alte Thorschenke was the first of 8 hotels that we would be staying in while in Europe. Renate (the manager-?) told me in an e-mail that we would have a family room but since it was a triple, it would face the street, and yes...we "might" hear the train noise. She mentioned no other noise. Cost: $198./per night, including breakfast and... more