My family and I checked in on a Friday evening, pl...

My family and I checked in on a Friday evening, planing to spend the night here on our way to Greece.

The placement of the hotel is excellent and the view from the higher floors is beautiful: a full view of Sofia. We stayed in an apartment suite with two rooms. The furniture is mostly refurbished, but the walls and doors give away the age of the hotel and it has the classic vibe of a socialist hotel (I didn't dislike it, because it felt well taken care of, but it was a strange thing to see the old wooden doors with matte glass panels). The room and bathroom were clean when we arrived. There is air conditioning in one of the rooms, a mini-fridge, and three balconies (two of which are connected to one of the bedrooms). It's moderately spacious, slightly bigger than the usual 3* hotel.

The matresses were stiff, which wasnt necessarily a bad thing for me, but my sister for example did not like it. The matrimonial bed was made of two beds pushed together, but the matresses were pushed closely together so there was no space between them.

Major cons:
- the pub downstairs is very noisy and the windows dont block out all of the sound (keep in mind we were on the 8th floor and the bass was still audible)
- there is no parking lot for the hotel, and parking in downtown is difficult due to a strange time-bound system (e.g. parking is free only at night and during the day you have to pay 2 leva (about 0.5 ) each hour BUT NOT MORE THAN 2H OR 4H, depending on the area)

However, we paid 66 a night for a 4 person suite in a central area, which I think is an amazing deal if you want to go out and explore the town. For breakfast, we should have paid 10 per person. I think it's a practical place at which to stay for a few knights.