Balchug Viewpoint is located in Sadovnicheskaya Naberezhnaya in the Balchug Area of the artificial island of the historical Zamoskvorechye district between the Moskva River and its old riverbed, which was turned into the Vodootvodny Canal in 1786. Being Few meters away from Balchug street, one of oldest 14th century streets outside Kremlin walls, lets you have daydreaming sights of the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building and off the street of the St. Basil spires enabling you to reach the Red Square via the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge (1938) in 10 min walking. Being in a one week business trip for Google in the close-by Balchug Plaza Office I was looking for a clean, quiet and logistically perfect hotel, where I could request laundry and ironing services for my shirts and be able to visit the city center in the evening after work. I did not try the meal room service not breakfast but worth mentioning that it is available and the restaurant is located in a nearby building, not in the same one where I stayed. More than a traditional hotel, I would call it a luxury modern apartments building with extremely kind, English speaking personnel ready to assist you in everything needed. I took a Superior Double Room (Twin Room) 135€ per night which had a pleasant heated floor bathroom and upscale wood-like interior design and furniture. Renovation works were happening during my stay in several floors but were never impacting with my overall experience. I will definitely consider it again for my next business...
Read moreBalchug Viewpoint is located in Sadovnicheskaya Naberezhnaya in the Balchug Area of the artificial island of the historical Zamoskvorechye district between the Moskva River and its old riverbed, which was turned into the Vodootvodny Canal in 1786. Being Few meters away from Balchug street, one of oldest 14th century streets outside Kremlin walls, lets you have daydreaming sights of the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building and off the street of the St. Basil spires enabling you to reach the Red Square via the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge (1938) in 10 min walking. Being in a one week business trip for Google in the close-by Balchug Plaza Office I was looking for a clean, quiet and logistically perfect hotel, where I could request laundry and ironing services for my shirts and be able to visit the city center in the evening after work. I did not try the meal room service not breakfast but worth mentioning that it is available and the restaurant is located in a nearby building, not in the same one where I stayed. More than a traditional hotel, I would call it a luxury modern apartments building with extremely kind, English speaking personnel ready to assist you in everything needed. I took a Superior Double Room (Twin Room) 135€ per night which had a pleasant heated floor bathroom and upscale wood-like interior design and furniture. Renovation works were happening during my stay in several floors but were never impacting with my overall experience. I will definitely consider it again for my next business...
Read moreI recently found myself in a situation where there were 3 parties to a conflict (one of which was me) and everyone kind of misbehaved:||- Me - because I wanted to sleep (at 1 am what else do you want), so inattentively read what I order (and now even resent, yes!)||- Ostrovok.ru - because distinctly do not write what rates are non-refundable and do not make any warning before taking my money (and eventually refuse to return them, hiding that the rules of return sets the hotel)||- And actually this hotel as vilely acted, refusing to settle me, change my booking (when booking through Ostrovok, as I found out already in the hotel, there is no option of night check-in) and demanded to pay again the room on the spot, hiding behind the fact that he had already suffered losses for the hour, while I booked, drove to the hotel (what losses for that hour the hotel has suffered so nobody has explained me).||||What can I say about the hotel itself:||- Relatively close to the subway,||- The room is stuffy and the bed is very uncomfortable, so it is impossible to get a good night's sleep.||- The bar is very uncomfortable, the floor is big and the bed was tilted back down in the morning and the dining room was big and uncomfortable.||- But most of all I would like to mention the most disgusting attitude towards the guests I have had in the last 5 years. Before that, the hotel in a small Asian village held the first place.||||Thank the hotel that at least they didn't crap in my suitcase while I was...
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