Hotel Pilevski — Hotel in Blagoevgrad

All visitors to the university town of Blagoevgrad need to be aware that there is a severe lack of hotel space in early September when parents deliver freshmen to dorms for the first time, and make a family holiday out of it. Had I not made this mistake I'd have never ended up in this awful hotel, right in the middle of Blago's noisy industral zone and for truckers (and maybe their girlfriends) only. ||The lobby is like a bus station, cold and unwelcoming. Yes you can buy from a very limited selection of beer and soft drinks, but no way would you want to sit in the looby and drink them. ||Rooms are dreadful. Expect to be kept up all night by the rush of drains and other mysterious machines. Do not expect to sleep well. Since I arrived at night, I had not noticed that on one side of this 'hotel' is a carwash, and on the other a garage- all part of the same complex. ||Mornings you see all the trucking guys. If they like it, fair play to them. But as a single older woman I was deeply unhappy, especially since this place is exactly the same price as many lovely hotels in the town proper. Serious...

I reserved two rooms on a visit to the property for my family who were coming for my commencement, a month later I stopped by to check if the reservation still holds and they have cancelled it without informing me. I renewed it and a week before the event called to check on them - they assured me the reservation stands and all is good. You can imagine my surprise when I go there with my family and they tell me - we don't have a reservation on such name and the hotel is fully booked for the last four days. At least, they had the decency of sending us to another hotel, but it was out of town, which is not...

The hotel only smelled nice at the reception. There was no one at the reception to greet us. We booked three rooms, but all of them smelled awful, like cigarette smoke. The bathrooms were dirty, and the bedsheets were not clean. There were no mosquito screens on the windows, making the rooms very uncomfortable.||On the bright side, the rooms had air conditioning, and the...