MSC Hotel

One's experience of this hotel is highly dependent on what one wants from a hotel. For me, I'm looking for a clean, comfortable, inexpensive place to sleep. The MSC Hotel perfectly provides that. For those looking for a warm welcome at reception (or recommendations for exploring the area), this is definitely the wrong place to choose because reception does not exist, replaced by a self-service machine that stands outside the main entrance to the building. Pros: Clean, new, trendy rooms with excellent air conditioning. Standard German/Austrian breakfast with breads, cheese, cold cuts, hard-boiled eggs, yogurt, fruit, vegetables, and Muesli. Close to the main highway. The hotel and the area around it feels very safe. Whoever handles reservations (wherever she is) is helpful; I booked two rooms and had to change my reservation; I changed only one room, not realizing I had separate reservation numbers for each room. I was contacted to see if I meant to change the other room, too -- that is much appreciated! Cons: No reception. Property only has staff in mornings (breakfast person who may or may not also be the cleaning person). Free Wi-Fi was a little persnickety at times -- it required patience when it did not want to load certain webpages. Also worth noting on the positive side: There is a nearby bike/pedestrian path that allows one to walk to the very picturesque Peterskirche in Ternitz in about 15-20 minutes, with beautiful rural/mountain views along the way. Directions: take the sidewalk next to the MSC Hotel entrance around to the front of the OBI store, cross the street at the crosswalk, walk toward the highway that connects Ternitz & Neunkirchen until the sidewalk dead ends at the parking lot for an apartment complex, walk through the parking lot to it's far corner, and then go through the little gait there to enter the bike/pedestrian path.