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AI Visibility Index · September 2026

Hotels in Cologne that AI assistants recommend

We asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the four questions a buyer asks when looking for hotels in Cologne, three times each, in German, and counted who they named. These are the businesses named in two or more of the 36 answers.

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Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.

Hotels · Cologne
69%of answers named Hyatt Regency Cologne
Answers
36
Businesses named
28
Named only once
11
Named by 2+ assistants
12 of 17
Named again on a rerun
64%

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Asked for hotels in Cologne, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini most often named Hyatt Regency Cologne (69% of answers), Excelsior Hotel Ernst (67%) and The Qvest Hideaway (47%). Across 36 answers they named 28 different businesses, 11 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in German, in September 2026.

The ranking

The AI Recommendation Rate is the fraction of the 36 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.

Hotels in Cologne named by AI assistants, September 2026
#BusinessAI Recommendation RateChatGPTClaudeGeminiQuestionsAvg. position
1Hyatt Regency CologneAlso written Hyatt Regency KölnIs this your business?69%95%: 53 to 82%58%75%75%3 of 42.7
2Excelsior Hotel ErnstAlso written Excelsior Hotel Ernst am DomIs this your business?67%95%: 50 to 80%42%75%83%4 of 41.2
3The Qvest HideawayAlso written The QVEST Hideaway, The Qvest Hotel Köln, The Qvest hideawayIs this your business?47%95%: 32 to 63%42%33%67%3 of 42.5
425hours Hotel The CircleAlso written 25hours Hotel Köln The Circle, The Circle HotelIs this your business?39%95%: 25 to 55%33%42%42%3 of 42.8
5Hotel WasserturmAlso written Wasserturm Hotel Köln, Hotel im Wasserturm, Hotel Wasserturm Köln, The Wasserturm Hotel KölnIs this your business?28%95%: 16 to 44%8%67%8%3 of 43.8
6Dorint HotelsAlso written Dorint An der Messe Köln, Dorint Hotel am Heumarkt KölnIs this your business?22%95%: 12 to 38%8%33%25%2 of 43.8
7Pullman CologneIs this your business?19%95%: 10 to 35%17%42%0%3 of 43
8Hotel am AugustinerplatzIs this your business?19%95%: 10 to 35%0%0%58%3 of 43.9
9Hotel ChelseaIs this your business?17%95%: 8 to 32%0%25%25%1 of 42.7
10Stern am RathausIs this your business?17%95%: 8 to 32%25%0%25%2 of 42.8
11Cologne Marriott HotelAlso written Marriott Hotel KölnIs this your business?17%95%: 8 to 32%25%25%0%2 of 43.3
12Hopper Hotel et CeteraAlso written Hopper Hotel et ceteraIs this your business?14%95%: 6 to 29%0%42%0%2 of 42.6
13Motel OneAlso written Motel One Köln-Waidmarkt, Motel One Köln-NeumarktIs this your business?11%95%: 4 to 25%8%17%8%2 of 44.5
14Althoff Grandhotel Schloss BensbergIs this your business?8%95%: 3 to 22%0%0%25%1 of 42
15Hilton CologneIs this your business?8%95%: 3 to 22%0%0%25%1 of 45
16NH Collection Köln MediaparkIs this your business?6%95%: 2 to 18%0%0%17%1 of 44
17Hotel Mondial am Dom Cologne - MGalleryAlso written Hotel Mondial am DomIs this your business?6%95%: 2 to 18%0%8%8%2 of 45

Each assistant column is the share of that assistant's own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 11 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.

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What each assistant said

The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.

#ChatGPTClaudeGemini
1Hyatt Regency Cologne58%Hyatt Regency Cologne75%Excelsior Hotel Ernst83%
2Excelsior Hotel Ernst42%Excelsior Hotel Ernst75%Hyatt Regency Cologne75%
3The Qvest Hideaway42%Hotel Wasserturm67%The Qvest Hideaway67%
425hours Hotel The Circle33%25hours Hotel The Circle42%Hotel am Augustinerplatz58%
5Stern am Rathaus25%Pullman Cologne42%25hours Hotel The Circle42%

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Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.

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Named by AI assistants: Hotels in Cologne, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026
<a href="https://aigrow.gg/index/hotels/cologne"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/badges/index/2026-09/hotels/cologne.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Hotels in Cologne, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026"></a>

The questions

Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant, in German. The English under each is our translation. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.

  1. 1Was ist das beste Hotel in Köln?What is the best hotel in Cologne?
  2. 2Ich verbringe ein Wochenende in Köln. Welches Hotel würdest du empfehlen?I'm visiting Cologne for a weekend. Which hotel would you recommend?
  3. 3Welches Boutiquehotel in Köln würdest du empfehlen?Which boutique hotel in Cologne would you recommend?
  4. 4Welches Hotel in Köln eignet sich gut für eine Geschäftsreise?Which hotel in Cologne is good for a business trip?

How to read this page

The full method
What it measures
Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
Why the ranges matter
36 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
One business, several spellings
Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
A name is wrong
If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.

Where the assistants look

The sites read most often, with web search on, before the assistants answer about this category in Germany. From the AI Source Map: 8 answers.

See every site for this category
reddit.com
Read in 88% of the answers
wikipedia.org
Read in 88% of the answers
michelin.com
Read in 38% of the answers

Elsewhere in the Index

Hotels elsewhere
BerlinDüsseldorfFrankfurtHamburgMunichStuttgart
Also in Cologne
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Edition September 2026 · published by Guglielmo Paesano, founder of AIGROW · data under CC BY 4.0