The only German hotels we didn’t regret staying at were on the ground floor. This is what we are used to in America. and this is what we assumed we would get in Europe --- but got in only two cases at the Best Western Park Hotel in Potsdam and the Best Western Imlauer in Salzburg in the New Town. At the Hotel Dorint in Weimar we were on the second floor above the lobby level and had to walk up and down marble stairs several times per day. The same thing was true at all the other hotels in Nuremberg, Munich, Fulda, and Hamburg where we stayed the last night before boarding the ship. We wasted lots of time loading and unloading our car, transporting bags up and down the stairs and the elevator. We also wasted time getting to meals and just walking around town touring. Also many of these staircases were dangerous and slippery.
I know that most of these hotels are very old, but when there’s a chance to do reconstruction the hotel owners ought to consider the convenience of ground floor rooms.