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Rooms:
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9.0
Cleanliness:
8.0
Food:
8.0
Amenities:
9.0
What is good about the hotel "Riga" is its location on Aspasia Boulevard. Opera House and Freedom Monument
located under the windows of the hotel, from the opposite side of the hotel the Old Town begins. So awesome
the view from the room is provided to you. Nearby is a shopping center with a grocery supermarket "Rimi" - also very convenient.
Otherwise, a capacious definition is suitable for a brief description of the hotel: "SCOOP". Its own car park
there is no hotel (which is strange for such a large hotel), at the reception they offer to park in the nearest parking lot
europack for 9 lats (about 15 euros) per day, when registering at the reception, our credit card was charged 25 lats (37
euros) as "insurance" in case "if we break something" (this despite the fact that the room was paid in advance),
money is returned to your card "a few days after departure", which is also not very pleasant, especially if
people counted on this money during their journey. So I advise you not to admit to the reception that you have
there is a credit card; ) In the room, it seems, representative atmosphere, soft chairs, wardrobe, TV, beautiful
lamps . . But all this has a rather shabby appearance, the rooms have a constant smell of mustiness and
dampness, no air conditioning, no safe, there is mold in some places in the bathroom, but meanwhile the hotel is positioned as
4*+. Breakfast for a solid 4, the hotel is large, there are a lot of guests (mostly Germans and French), there is always enough food
and everyone (constantly bringing new portions). The menu is standard: eggs-omelette-potatoes-cheese-sausage-fruit.
We stayed in "Riga" for the new year (from December 31.2009 to January 1.2010), we had a New Year's dinner
booked at the Ramada Hotel. Dinner is wonderful, it seems that the Ramada itself is a good hotel (albeit a bit far
from the center), if next time we go to Riga we will try to stay there; ) 5 minutes before the New Year we were sold
jazz-folk club tickets. In Riga, they generally love to sell everything, we met the New Year on the street with a bottle
champagne and fireworks. Didn't like the jazz club because all the normal seats in the live music hall were
busy, they put us in a hall with a disco, such a "jazz" - another 100 euros for tickets down the drain : ( Swear and
There was no desire to "knock out" a place for ourselves "under jazz" on New Year's Eve, so we left the club and jumped into
round dance under the New Year tree on Domskaya Square, drank mulled wine, ate a pumpkin pie and recovered
bainki. Such a calm new year. The next day at 10 am on January 1, we "found" a guide on the Town Hall Square
who in 45 minutes and 50 dollars (for 4) gave us a sightseeing tour of Old Riga, after which we plunged
into the car and left the Latvian capital. Riga is a pleasant city and if you take a good supply of money with you -
quality rest is guaranteed to you : ) Since the Latvian currency is more expensive than the euro and the dollar, get ready for the fact that the money
you will melt like snow in the sun, carefully study the exchange rate in exchangers because the price of an error is a direct
sense of the word: ) I wish you all pleasant travels and vivid impressions: )
located under the windows of the hotel, from the opposite side of the hotel the Old Town begins. So awesome
the view from the room is provided to you. Nearby is a shopping center with a grocery supermarket "Rimi" - also very convenient.
Otherwise, a capacious definition is suitable for a brief description of the hotel: "SCOOP". Its own car park
there is no hotel (which is strange for such a large hotel), at the reception they offer to park in the nearest parking lot
europack for 9 lats (about 15 euros) per day, when registering at the reception, our credit card was charged 25 lats (37
euros) as "insurance" in case "if we break something" (this despite the fact that the room was paid in advance),
money is returned to your card "a few days after departure", which is also not very pleasant, especially if
people counted on this money during their journey. So I advise you not to admit to the reception that you have
there is a credit card; ) In the room, it seems, representative atmosphere, soft chairs, wardrobe, TV, beautiful
lamps . . But all this has a rather shabby appearance, the rooms have a constant smell of mustiness and
dampness, no air conditioning, no safe, there is mold in some places in the bathroom, but meanwhile the hotel is positioned as
4*+. Breakfast for a solid 4, the hotel is large, there are a lot of guests (mostly Germans and French), there is always enough food
and everyone (constantly bringing new portions). The menu is standard: eggs-omelette-potatoes-cheese-sausage-fruit.
We stayed in "Riga" for the new year (from December 31.2009 to January 1.2010), we had a New Year's dinner
booked at the Ramada Hotel. Dinner is wonderful, it seems that the Ramada itself is a good hotel (albeit a bit far
from the center), if next time we go to Riga we will try to stay there; ) 5 minutes before the New Year we were sold
jazz-folk club tickets. In Riga, they generally love to sell everything, we met the New Year on the street with a bottle
champagne and fireworks. Didn't like the jazz club because all the normal seats in the live music hall were
busy, they put us in a hall with a disco, such a "jazz" - another 100 euros for tickets down the drain : ( Swear and
There was no desire to "knock out" a place for ourselves "under jazz" on New Year's Eve, so we left the club and jumped into
round dance under the New Year tree on Domskaya Square, drank mulled wine, ate a pumpkin pie and recovered
bainki. Such a calm new year. The next day at 10 am on January 1, we "found" a guide on the Town Hall Square
who in 45 minutes and 50 dollars (for 4) gave us a sightseeing tour of Old Riga, after which we plunged
into the car and left the Latvian capital. Riga is a pleasant city and if you take a good supply of money with you -
quality rest is guaranteed to you : ) Since the Latvian currency is more expensive than the euro and the dollar, get ready for the fact that the money
you will melt like snow in the sun, carefully study the exchange rate in exchangers because the price of an error is a direct
sense of the word: ) I wish you all pleasant travels and vivid impressions: )
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- Nice vacation for family
- New Year in Riga and hotel "Riga"
- Spacious apartments in the very center of Riga.
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