S Simonov Review of Hotel Continental
To start, I must note that we stay only at 5* hote...
To start, I must note that we stay only at 5* hotels and look for ratings over 9 (based on a well-known booking website). Starting with the positive sides, the location is top notch. In the very heart of the city, however cosy and quiet. Architecture is gorgeous, should you be in old style. Rooms are decorated in the same manner and so is the whole vibe. So, all in all very beautiful and classy. Prices are ok - room was 200 eur for both (me and wife), including breakfast. Now to the not so good. Parking is available, but at the Novotel underground parking which is across the street and you need to carry all stuff from the parking through the Novotel lobby, across the street and to the hotel. Sounds absolutely crazy, but it is. No one to just take your car and deal with all this...We wanted to have a dinner at the hotel, the restaurant OPENS at 19:00 and by 19:10, there was nobody in the restaurant (meaning staff), no one at the reception as well and as we decided to leave, we saw three guys from the staff at some back staff door by the side entrance having a chat?! You serious?!?! On this note, the breakfast was good. The rooms was clean and big, however the bed was...well, the sheets were so slippery, both I and my wife were about to fall off several times. Crazy stuff...the shower was broken, water was not so hot, and the coffee machine was broken. Should we have stayed for more than one night in the city, we would have called the problems, but still, for this type of property I think it is not ok.
So, in short, if you are not travelling by car and care about dinner and hot shower, it's your place, else, look somewhere else.
Comments: