Normal average hotel

Written: 19 may 2013
Travel time: 8 — 12 may 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
We visited the May holidays in the glorious city of Svetlogorsk, which is located in the amazing amber region, and stayed at this hotel.
The hotel building is 7-storey, there are elevators (German, but very thoughtful, melancholic... ). As for the pros and cons, I would like to note the following.
Pros:
- clean rooms with European-style renovation and cozy interiors (standard rooms have a TV, a refrigerator, a hairdryer, a balcony, a bathroom with a shower corner - you can’t call it a shower cabin... in short, a corner in the bathroom, fenced off by a ledge of tiles and a curtain - here such a shower : ), apparently, without further ado, slyly transferred during the reconstruction of the hotel, from the USSR)
- good buffet-type breakfasts (our tour included only breakfasts, and there are no complaints about them - you can eat quite hearty and plenty)

- free internet via Wi-Fi in the rooms (it was not officially announced, but 2 cells out of 5 were caught in the room, so you could more or less use it)
- there is an opportunity to improve your health with medical procedures (there is a medical and preventive department, but we didn’t go there, so I can’t tell you more, there is also a SPA-salon)
- there is a bar, a computer club
Minuses:
- far from the sea (400 meters, but keep in mind that you still have to go down to the sea either along a steep serpentine path or along the local "Potemkin" stairs, the city has a lift - a cable car, but for some reason during our visit it did not work and in general its state was somehow running)
- Standard rooms do not have air conditioning
- in the bathrooms, the smell of sewage was periodically observed (I suspect that due to the peculiarities of the drain in the bathrooms, dictated by the specific arrangement of the shower enclosure... and this drain tends to clog periodically)
- for some reason, the maids sometimes forget to put soap and shampoo, but you can always ask (soap is given in small bars, shampoo in bags....well, you know what bags they give on the plane, say, mayonnaise? well, that's the same size ; toothbrushes, pastes, slippers, bathrobes, shoe polish and other accessories, unfortunately, they don’t give out in standard rooms, maybe there are in suites... however, there is a brush for clothes and a “spoon”)
Summary: for a small town like Svetlogorsk, the hotel is a confident average, even, perhaps, above average. I can fully recommend if you are not picky tourists and prefer to walk more with your feet or go on excursions than to sit in your room.
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