One star for the room booked was available. One st...

One star for the room booked was available. One star for the fact that the reverse transaction worked well. You have to be careful with this hotel - the great pictures in the description and on the various booking portals only concern the main building and even there it is quite "worn out" from close up.

If you - like me - get a room in the next house, you will with a certain probability not be very happy. To describe the rooms as "verranzt" would be as flattered as to describe the ambience or the smell as pleasant. In short: something like this would be passed through in a Western setting as a battered cowboy motel or, during the Soviet Union, as a youth hostel in Siberia. However, it is completely inadequate as an offer for travelers who - for whatever reason - want to stay there without disgust.

I hadn't even lasted one night there, but rather immediately reversed it and checked into another hotel. I found the ambience and room so unbearable.

It smelled like an unventilated retirement home. The corridors are built like a labyrinth (oh woe if a fire or something breaks down there). The windows are leaky and dirty. The seals are rotten. The veneer is peeling from the furniture everywhere, half the lamps are broken, the television is from the last millennium. The bathroom is not only old, but also dirty - including a fully rusted drain, dirt in the sink and calcified shower heads. Even the textiles on the bed smelled old and musty.

A total catastrophe and an insult to ask for money for this.

It may be that the situation in the main building, where the photos were taken, is better - but I cannot judge that. Based on my experiences, I would advise anyone against booking at the Thistle City Barbican. A - for me - terrible and above all disgusting place.