Ooh...is this a bad sign?

I finally signed a contract for an apartment in a little town bordering Darmstadt. It's a cute, 3-bedroom affair with a little terrace 10 minutes away from work. Lovely, lovely. So lovely in fact, that M. and I have taken to making mini-road trips, just to look at it and survey the neighborhood at different times of day. Okay, okay, basically, we're just nosy and we want to see what's going on out there. I mean, I'm practically a Griesheim local, so I really should know what's going on, right? Well, anyway, we were making a trip out there last weekend, driving through the middle of town on the way to my block and M. was like, "Since when do you live next to the HO-tel?" What? Oh yeah, sure enough, right down the main drag of downtown Griesheim is the HO-tel. How do we know what it is? Oh, because it SAYS so in 6 foot high orange letters. Hmm. Now, is this simply convenient lodging, or a bad, baaad sign for my cute little neighborhood? I think funny coincidence or more likely bad translation probably covers the situation, but M. and I must be fighting off the last vestiges of sleep deprivation because we still find the HO-tel hilarious whenever we pass by.