not disappointed

Written: 28 april 2009
Travel time: 22 — 26 april 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
Good quality quiet hotel. Vaclavka is really 5 minutes on foot (to the horse), a little more to the Mustek metro station. When choosing a hotel, one of the arguments in its favor was the proximity to Wenceslas Square, as a result of which the opportunity to save a little on transport, because. guides usually appoint meetings at Wenceslas. But! Our guide turned out to be not an ordinary lady and she made appointments near the Malostranska metro station. This is on the other side of the Vltava, you have to walk along the curving streets for 25-30 minutes at a brisk pace. But didn't we come here to walk? Here they went. They used the subway only in the evening, when their legs refused to obey. And so, the fact that the hotel is in the center is a big advantage. For example, the best exchangers are at the corner of Opletalova and Politichkih veznu (Political Victims) streets. So, if you leave the hotel and go along Ve Smechkah street (on which the hotel is located) towards Vatslavka, then cross the square, then exactly opposite Ve Smechkah, through Vaclavka, Opletalova Street begins! Exchangers work from 8-00. Imagine how convenient it was to change money before excursions!
Another plus: pub restaurants within walking distance. For example, in the evenings, calmly, not thinking that after a pleasant sitting for a beer, you would have to climb into the subway or shake in the tram, watching the stops (we passed once in the afternoon! ), Walked on foot to Pivovarsky Doom, At Flek, At Medved, Branichny Sklipek ( so-so pub), Staromestsky brewer. I won’t comment on pubs, a lot has been written about them and the marked negative is true, it’s another matter how you react to this: with a smile or with irritation. In the Brewery Duma, beer really has different tastes, but it’s not tasty, there are a lot of people, the food is so-so, noise, din and smoke, we took it as an attraction, but we won’t go there again. Fleck's really fat Germans bawl their songs, Medved's is noisy and smoky, but deliciously interesting and the beer is good, etc.
What else about the hotel? Yes, Wi-Fi is free, we used the Internet to the fullest (we took a laptop with us) and chatted on Skype. There is a computer in the lobby, but since we had our own, there was no desire to use the local one.

Someone from our group called Andante "a hotel of roaring toilets" - not quite right, it's not the toilets that roar, but the forced exhaust when the light in the toilet is turned on. The sound is comparable to the start of aircraft engines. But we treated this with humor: but you can make any sounds in the toilet.
If you smoke, then there is no problem: there are ashtrays in the room and even in the toilet. If you do not smoke, then some smell of unweathered smokyness in the room will bother you, but we, for example, opened the window at night.
Ve Smechkah Street, however, is quiet only in the morning and afternoon: there is a cabaret and other establishments that provide sex services. Early in the morning you can see how the girls and their clients disperse to their homes / hotels. But they do not bawl songs at night, only sometimes it is noisy if a group of teenagers has come. But it's not near the hotel and we, who left during the day, didn't care, we slept like the dead.
They clean it, it’s normal, I won’t say that not a single speck of dust, but it’s clean, the garbage is thrown out daily, the beds are made, towels are changed once every 2 days, bed linen, in my opinion, once every 7 days, but we lived 4 nights, so could not check.
Yes, there is also a 24-hour mini-market on the corner, so if you want something at night, you can not ruin the mini-bar, but drive it there, to the next building. Just a warning, there Chinese-Korean-Vietnamese take a nightly rate (? Or what was it? ): + 10% to the purchase price. We didn't haggle, we were very tired, and that's probably how it should have been.

Food. 3 types of bread and buns + 1 some kind of sweet bun or donut, 2 types of liver pate-packs, 3-4 types of jam + 1 chocolate-nut, 1 type of processed cheese in a package (triangle), butter. Next 2 types of sliced ​ ​ cheese, 1 type of ham and 1 type of smoked sausage, fresh vegetable salad (cucumber, tomato, Bulgarian pepper), thermoses with boiling water and coffee, a box with different types of Pickwick tea (black, green, Earl Gray and fruit). Brazier with fried eggs, sausages and bacon, ketchup, mustard. For lovers of dry breakfasts, there are 3 types of muesli, 1 cereal and 1 chocolate balls, a jug of milk, a juice machine (grapefruit, orange, apple and, it seems, just water), but the juices are strongly diluted with this very water or diluted from the concentrate, not I realized that we were not interested in them. You understand about tea, coffee is also not from freshly ground beans in a coffee machine, but they have such a unit, vapor-drop, as it used to be, with a jug. But it's better than soluble, so it's okay. There are also 3-4 types of yogurt and a tray of fruit: oranges, apples, bananas and kiwi. There is also a toaster, whoever wants can fry the toast himself. In general, we were quite satisfied and satisfied. The only circumstance: I advise you to come for breakfast early, by 7-15.7-30. Because our compatriots are also not a mistake, they get up no later than you and have a good appetite : -). Here Europeans living in a hotel pull themselves up by 9-00, and even have breakfast only coffee with a bun with butter or cheese, they have enough, because by this time (after us, Russians! ) This is all that remains, hee-hee.
The staff is sane and friendly: more than half of the employees are Russians (or Ukrainians? ), And the Czechs, if they can’t say something, they will be able to understand you exactly and, if necessary, try to help.
I hope I didn’t scare you by talking about places on the street and diluted juices at breakfast, because this is nonsense: if you don’t drink juice and enter the hotel in the evening from the other side and from the other street (we, for example, often went not from Wenceslas, and from Zhytna street), then you won’t notice anything!
In general, we liked it, I see no reason to look at another hotel, except out of curiosity. The main thing is not to lose your sense of humor, you are on vacation!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original