The flashy Europa Style Hotel shares its convenient location and competent staff with EuroCheapo pick the Europa Life Hotel, but this hip sibling adds a few extra luxuries (and a few extra euros).

It would be easy for the Hotel Excelsior to rest on its unbeatable location facing the train station’s southern entrance, but the three-star property also throws in a friendly staff, terrific rates and various extras.

Situated in an old world villa, the eccentric Hotel am Berg is a truly special establishment, where each room represents an era in the evolution of post-war German aesthetics.

The Five Elements Hostel is a trendy, young-spirited place befitting its gritty urban environment. And its 188 beds can be some of the cheapest in the city.

And, although it’s not the most memorable, the clean, convenient and reasonably-priced Hotel Cristall is a good solid pick, especially if you have an early train to catch.

Catering mostly to a business crowd, the three-star Hotel Astoria offers 64 reliable rooms, supremely friendly service and impressive weekend and off-peak deals.

The three-star Lloyed benefits from a laid-back, multilingual staff and an excellent location in a residential area within a 10-minute walk of the train station.

In every city we visit, there is always that one affordable gem that makes us wish we could just move in. In Frankfurt, that hotel was the four-star 25 Hours Goldman.

With its excellent location near the lush riverbank and reliable service, the two-star Ibis Frankfurt Centrum is a solid pick.

The simple Hotel Neue Kräme impresses in no single category, but as the saying goes, “location, location, location!”

Situated kitty-corner to the train station, the four-star Hotel National is a standard business hotel with a touch of old-world elegance.

An outpost of the European Mercure hotel chain, the Mercure Hotel Kaiserhof (formerly the Quality Hotel Kaiserhof) offers 76 reasonably priced rooms within a few blocks of the train station in Frankfurt’s red light district.

Situated in the middle of Frankfurt’s action and steps away from the train station, the three-star Hotel Europa Life is a functional budget hotel with a competent staff and convenient location.