Hotel Dominika — Hotel in Bratislava

The only positives were that it is clean, the bed was made daily, the wifi worked and a female staff member on reception was friendly and helpful. That’s about it.|The hotel’s location is dreadful. The surrounding area is indescribably grim, real communist-era grey. There is literally nothing around apart from tower blocks. It is nowhere near the areas of Bratislava that tourists will want to see.|If I had to sum up this hotel in one phrase, that phrase would be ‘bare minimum’. The breakfast was the worst I have ever seen in over 30 years of staying in hotels. The absolute bare minimum of a couple of pieces of horrible-looking boiled ham and curled-up slices of packet cheese. That was it. |The waitress couldn’t speak English, which is fair enough, as I can’t speak Slovak, but we could not communicate at all. She asked me a couple of questions, I couldn’t understand anything she said. Apparently she went off to cook eggs, but I had seen enough and cancelled the breakfast.|The room was small and furnished to the bare minimum. It contained a shower of a type that most Western Europeans will never have seen, but nobody explained how to use it, because doing so would have necessitated going beyond the bare minimum of effort.|I had to leave the room at midnight and ask the staff member in reception, a few feet from my room, to stop talking loudly with one of his mates as I wanted to get some sleep. |I had asked for directions before arriving and received the bare minimum of a response, with directions (“Number 1 tram to the end and we are near the post office”), which would make sense to somebody who lives in that area but not to an outsider staying at the hotel. |The post office is 10 minutes’ walk from the tram stop; apparently guests are supposed to just guess which way to go when they get off the tram. Without Google maps, I would have had no chance of finding Dominika.|The hotel is generally abysmal and overpriced. There are much better hotels in Bratislava and probably cheaper. I would happily return to Bratislava, but I would never, ever stay at Hotel...

Conveniently located close to tram stop Jungmannova which goes to main station and rig next to bus top Jungmannova where bus 88 goes to Most SNP, bus station, and Economic University. Reception is one floor up from the ground floor; there's a lift hidden away a bit if you don't immediately go through the door to the stairwell but instead turn right in front of the bar. Air conditioning in the room requires a remote control which is kept at reception and apparently only handed out on request. Two-bed room has one chair and one stool. Good amount of storage space. Room 205 looks out towards the back (small supermarket) and so is quieter than the rooms facing the main road, but the wifi was spotty in that corridor, sometimes going down entirely without warning - the nearest access point seems to be in the parallel corridor with the road-view rooms so the signal in those is probably better. When I mentioned the bad wifi in my room to an older employee , he said they had no in-house technician and I should just come down to the reception to use the wifi; a younger employee a couple of days later said if the wifi is bad the access point probably just needs to be resetted and immediately got out a ladder. So it depends on whom you talk with whether they can help you. The young man was surprised that there was no access point in my corridor, so perhaps that will change in the future now that he/they are aware of it. Trash can was not emptied every day. Breakfast selection was a bit small for my taste, plus I'm not really used to Slovak "rožky" which seem too narrow to put butter and jam on easily, so I usually had egg and sausage. The juice dispensing machine dispenses something but it sure ain't orange juice (looks like apple juice, tastes weird), while the multivitamin juice is mostly water - best to stick to actual water. All in all an OK place to...

I am here already for the third time. The hotel is located far from the center in a not so nice socialistic style neighbourhood, but you can go to the center by tram. Actually I chose it, as it was near to the conference location. Due to the location, it is more a hotel for business travelers than tourists. Some industrial areas are near and the Economic University also. It is a comfortable hotel with comfortable hotel with comfortable rooms. The room was clean in the beginnig, there was no intermediate room service (3 nights stay). The service staff was friendly, some don't speak English. They have 24 hour reception, so it was no problem to arive at 2am. The hotel has several facilities, which make your stay more comfortable: Wellness area, Bar and Restaurant. Unfortunately the terrace on the roof was closed this year. The breakfast was not so good and I wished, I could book an option without breakfast, especially we got free breakfast and meals at the conference. They also have a private parking, but arrival by public transport or taxi from Petrzalka railway station is...