Bamberg: booking lodgings on-line

Very few cons - mostly pros. The rooms at Fässla are above the pub, but weren't particularly noisy, and street noise isn't too bad after the sun goes down. Pretty much the same holds for the Spezial across the street. The Alt-Ringlein, in the old town centre and close to the Schlenkerla, housed a brewery a long time ago, but now serves Schlenkerla in its pub, and is in a noisier location, close to quite a few pubs and other diversions.

The hrs.de site will work in English too, and the Altenburgblick, while a bit away from the centre, is in fact affiliated with the Greifenklau brewery & pub. For the brewery guesthouses, though, there are no English booking sites. You can ring the Fässla or Spezial and see if you get lucky and find someone who speaks English to help with booking your room, but that's about as lucky as you'll get.

Then again, if you're going in August, a "proper" hotel might be the way to go ... the rooms can get rather stuffy if the weather warms up, and a "proper" hotel might have air conditioning.