NEW YORK: If you stayed at certainly one of Marriott’s Starwood lodges in latest years, hackers would possibly have information about your address, credit score card, or even your passport. Some can be used for identity theft, as hackers create a financial institution and different accounts below your call.

Marriott says the breach affected approximately 500 million guests, although it’s viable the data ought to consist of an unmarried person who booked more than one stays. Marriott says.

Frankfurt is domestic to Germany’s biggest inventory change, the German Federal Bank, the European Central Bank, and Europe’s largest organizations. It is one of the few European cities with a skyline dominated using skyscrapers and contemporary structures. Yet, it also has some parts that give it the texture of “Old World Germany.”

As I turned into making plans for an enterprise trip to Frankfurt, I could not, in reality, discover any manual concerning which to stay or what to do, so I idea I would offer some insight primarily based on my experience in Frankfurt.

With appreciation to lodges, I am very “Points Oriented,” so I typically stay at a motel that permits me to earn or use factors. Still, at the same time, I love inns in well-known, especially luxurious hotels, so I also like to check out a number of the opposite high-quality resorts in a town where points won’t be a choice. Below you will discover my pointers of lodges in addition to a few guidelines on wherein to eat and drink.

The three key matters I look for in a lodge are the first-rate of the motel itself, the services it gives, and its place. As some distance as the location is going, there are three things you want to be near in Frankfurt:

1. Shopping on Goethestrasse (“Goethe Street” it is the 5th Avenue of Frankfurt),

2. Römerberg (A.K.A. Römerberg Square – The most beautiful rectangular in Frankfurt, mainly in the course of December with the Christmas Market), and

3. Sachsenhausen (One of Frankfurt’s maximum historic streets with wood-framed buildings, restaurants, bars, and nightclubs)

Hotels for those who want to earn or use “Points”:

1. The Westin Grand Frankfurt

Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 7, 60313. The Westin Grand Frankfurt is placed properly inside the coronary heart of the town and inside brief taking walks distance of the historic center, purchasing district, and economic district. In my opinion, it has a nice place for the “point earning” inns in Frankfurt. The inn has 371 rooms, such as 18 suites, all of that have Westin’s trademark Heavenly Beds and Heavenly Showers in addition to marble bathrooms.

As long as restaurants and facilities pass, the Westin Grand Frankfurt gives Asian restaurants, and restaurant san offers Chinese cuisine, and Sushimoto offers Japanese cuisine and Sushi. A Breakfast buffet is served on the Restaurant Motions, and there may be a foyer bar/cafe known as Arabella bar & lounge, which affords espresso, cake, cocktails, and an enterprise lunch.

The Emotion Spa gives an indoor pool with rooftop perspectives of Old Frankfurt, a Finnish steam room, sauna, and spa. The Westin Workout facility is an artwork with treadmills, unfastened weights, and LifeFitness weight gadgets. Overall, this is a completely high-quality Westin with a first-rate area.

Points: The Westin Grand Frankfurt is an SPG category four with an unfastened night time requiring 10,000 Starpoints in line with a night.

2. Marriott Frankfurt

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The Marriott Frankfurt is an area throughout from the Frankfurt Convention Center (“Messe Frankfurt”) that is amazing for tradeshows, however now not the first-class location for traveling the city. However, it offers some notable services and offerings. I stayed at this motel for about three nights and became very inspired by what it had to provide. There changed into a nice little espresso bar and cafe, Espressivo Cafe & Bar, making amazing coffee and cappuccino. On the pinnacle of that, their muesli, yogurt, and sandwiches were great (assume clean crusty bread with fine prosciutto or salami, no longer the 3-day vintage prepackaged sandwiches you get at most Starbucks which can be positioned in North American Marriott’s). There turned into also a Champions Sports bar and French Brasserie, Brasserie is.

As a Marriott Platinum, I live at many Marriott’s and would need to rank the concierge living room and gymnasium at this vicinity right on the top of all Marriott’s. The lounge had a fairly significant buffet for each breakfast and dinner. The gymnasbecamevery huge with treadmills, free weights, cardiovascular gadgets, or ehad a juice bar that made protein drinks.

Points: The Marriott Frankfurt is a category five lodge with free nights requiring 25,000 Marriott Rewards Points per night time (or 20,000 if you can get it as a PointSaver)

3. Frankfurt Hilton

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Located next to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, The Hilton Frankfurt Hotel is a current 12 story motel located in a lush green park. They offer 342 well-known government and deluxe visitor rooms, including 14 suites, all of which have a current, bright, and airy feel.

The resort gives 2 eating places (Gekkos and Pacific Colors) and a café/bar/front room (Vista Bar and Lounge) in addition to a govt living room and Fitness Center with a steam room and sauna.

Points: The Hilton Frankfurt is a Hilton HHonors Reward Category 6 with an unfastened night time requiring forty,000 HHonors Points in step with the night time.

4. Intercontinental Frankfurt

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Located on the Main River, the InterContinental Frankfurt is near the town center and inside a quick walk of many nearby sightseeing attractions, along with the Römerberg Square, Frankfurt Cathedral, and St Paul’s Church. One of the satisfactory matters about the location of this motel is the potential to stroll out the resort, pass the street and opt for a run (or stroll) down route along the Main River.

This motel comprises separate homes, throughout the road from each different, with 770 rooms. There are eating places and a bar – LEONS Italian Restaurant, Signatures Veranda Restaurant, and DAX Mainhatten Bar, in addition to a 24-hour Health and Fitness Center. I might now not remember this one of the higher Intercontinental Hotels, but if you generally stay at IHG residences, it might be your satisfactory wager.

Points: A Free Night at the Intercontinental Frankfurt would require 30,000 Priority Club Points (Intercontinental Hotels Range from 30,000 – 40,000 factors)

5. Le Meridien Parkhotel

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Located very close to the Frankfurt Central Train Station (“Hauptbahnhof”) and one of the only Starwood lodges in the City Center, this became one of the greater unusual motel designs I have encountered. Half the lodge is an Old World Charming City motel, and the alternative 1/2 (a 70’s upload-on, I could bet) is a current enterprise resort. This turned into true no longer handiest on the outdoors structure, but of the 297 guestrooms. I stayed in one of the rooms from the older segment, which changed into absolutely very fine with conventional fixtures, only a little small. The rooms on the modern side are lots larger and extra cutting-edge, geared greater towards the commercial enterprise vacationer.