The city of Cologne charges an extra tax of 5 percent on room accommodation rate (including VAT). This tax will be charged to guests at check-out, and paid to the hotel. Holiday Inn Am Stadtwald sits on the Stadtwaldweiher (city forest and lake), four miles from downtown, and approximately 10 miles from Cologne-Bonn Airport. The hotel is within minutes of the motorway junction K??ln-West and Cologne City. This location is also three miles from the Ludwig Museum and Cologne Main Station, four miles from the Rhine and Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, six miles from Kolnarena, 20 miles from Phantasialand, and 30 miles from Dusseldorf Rhein-Ruhr Airport. Hotel amenities include the cocktail lounge and restaurant. The hotel also offers room service, valet laundry service, currency exchange, parking (fee), babysitting, and a concierge. All rooms feature satellite TV, in-room movies, minibars, hairdryers, individual climate controls, trouser presses, and work desks.