The building itself is old, but the room has been renovated beautifully—surprisingly so—and was spotless with all necessary amenities. The location couldn’t be better. Since no staff are stationed on-site, you need to ring the bell outside the entrance (which isn’t immediately obvious) and wait several minutes for check-in, so it’s best not to schedule anything too tightly around your arrival.
Once the staff member arrives, they are friendly and helpful, and afterwards you can enter the building freely with a key card. For check-out, you simply leave the key by the pillow and go. The only thing I wondered about was how quickly they would respond in case of an emergency outside business hours, but I never had the need to test this because the room was perfect and trouble-free. There is a small, antique-style one-person elevator located about ten steps up from the entrance.
Overall, it was a place that genuinely made me think, ‘I want to stay here again the next time I visit this city.