Auehof, CloppenburgAuehof in Cloppenburg, Germany has a corrected score of 3.5 ± 0.4 (thin evidence, 3 of 4 platforms), ranked 4 of 6 hotels we score in Cloppenburg. Its platform ratings, normalised to 0-5, average 3.6 before correction: Booking.com 2.4, Tripadvisor 4.1, Google 4.3. Rooms from about $77 a night (cached, not a live quote).Auehof is a three-star hotel and restaurant on the edge of Garrel, a small town in the Weser-Ems region of Lower Saxony. It has 20 double rooms, each with a TV, balcony, seating area and a private bathroom with a hairdryer. Guests get free Wi-Fi, a breakfast buffet, bicycle hire and free on-site parking, and pets are welcome. The restaurant serves game and duck dishes and receives consistently good reviews, and there is a terrace plus three meeting rooms totalling 235 square metres. It suits drivers, cyclists and business groups, though it is rural: Oldenburg is about 25 km away and Bremen roughly 65 km, so a car is practically essential.What stands out

Well-reviewed restaurant with game dishes

Free parking and pet friendly

Rooms have balconies and seating areas

Bicycle hire available on site

Watch out for

Rural location, a car is needed

Only 20 rooms, small property

Better-scored in Cloppenburg

Munsterlander Hof, Cloppenburg: 4.0 ± 0.2 (solid evidence, 4 of 4 platforms), from $120 a night. Munsterlander Hof is a four-star hotel on Bahnhofstrasse in Cloppenburg, about a kilometre from the town centre and a three-minute walk from the train station.

Landhotel Witte-Konig, Cloppenburg: 3.7 ± 0.2 (solid evidence, 3 of 4 platforms), from $128 a night. Landhotel Witte-Konig is a family-run, three-star-superior hotel situated in the village of Garrel, Lower Saxony.

Buergerklause Tapken, Cloppenburg: 3.7 ± 0.2 (solid evidence, 3 of 4 platforms), from $115 a night. Buergerklause Tapken is a privately run four-star hotel and restaurant on the Hauptstrasse in the centre of Garrel, a small town in Lower Saxony.