Hotel Galeria pre sebarozvoj — Hotel in Bratislava

I’m not certain entirely where to begin with the Hotel Galéria, I don’t think a hotel has ever left me with such mixed emotions. ||We’ll start with the good: the design of the hotel, and the decor, fitting the Galéria name, is really pretty cool. Odd geometrics are order of the day in terms of the building itself and the rooms, and the original artwork and colourful paint splash decor are striking and really quirky and impressive. There is a painting area on the first floor if you want to indulge your artistic side and this adds to the appeal. Hotel is also located behind the train station so if travelling too or from Bratislava by this means it’s convenient. Room was also warm with good heat provided by the radiator.||The bad: my room smelled. I’m not sure of what, and it wasn’t overpowering, but it was there. Bed covers don’t fit the beds, only one ‘European’ pillow and what amounts to a couch cushion to do a double bed. There is no shower, just a shower attachment to the bath, however this doesn’t stretch to reach your head if you’re 6ft or over. The towels are old, though this bothered me less than the fact my room never actually got seen by a maid over my 3 night stay. In that respect it’s more like a hostel but one towel for 3 days is frankly a bit grotty. The curtains are hilariously ill-fit for purpose, not covering the window nor actually blocking out sun. It advertises breakfast, but I saw no such thing.||There are problems the hotel can’t really help, like the proximity to the station meaning you hear trains, and the fact my co-guests were incredibly loud. ||The uneven: depending on what you’re there for the location might be off putting. It’s 20 mins walk-ish to the town centre, through a mainly residential area but going underneath a railway bridge that you might find off putting. There isn’t a lot around the area itself. I’ll be honest I only turned the tv on for background noise one day and found about a tenth of the channels actually worked. Complaints aren’t entirely unfounded but maybe slightly exaggerated. The main part of the room is clean enough, but if you look around the furniture it’s not the cleanest. Possibly because nobody cleans the room daily.||On the subject of the staff, they ranged from nice to eccentric. Didn’t have any issues with them. The door locks at night but there is a buzzer to alert who ever mans the desk to open the door. It’s not 100% reliable there will be someone there straight away but by large it’s not too bad.||I don’t really know how to put my thoughts on the Galéria. It’s not awful, disgusting, unholy or anything like that, but it does have its share of problems. Truth be told the thing that annoys me most is that so many of them would be so easily fixed. ||If you’re making a one night stopover it really isn’t the worst hotel. Any longer than that...you probably want to get something a bit...

I didn’t know if I was supposed to cry or laugh when I checked in here. Everything was weird from the moment we checked in. An old guy (might be the owner) checked us in. He was mumbling with a low voice in a rarely understandable English. He also demanded a deposit which HAD to be paid in cash (NO CARD or even exchange money), and the weird thing is that he demanded different amount of deposits from different guests. We finally received our room after 30 minutes of check in (where the owner walked back and forth without speaking to us), but we didn’t get what we had booked. We reserved an apartment with a balcony, but we got a small double room with a weird smell and no functional curtains (everyone that went for a smoke outside could see inside our room). The toilet was dirty and had marks in the bottom, and the shows bathtub didn’t have any curtains. There was stains and a hole in the bedsheets. This place felt so dirty from the moment we walked in. We went outside to check out the city and when we came back (around 6pm on a Saturday), the front door was locked. We had to call the owner who told us that he would call his housekeeper that lived inside the so called hotel. We waited for 30 minutes and nobody opened the door. We had to call again to actually get someone to open the door. By that time, we managed to go from 2 people waiting to 5. The good thing about that is that we are able to share our similar opinions and experiences from this interesting place:) We felt so uncomfortable staying here in the end that we checked out the same evening and checked in to a hostel instead. Don’t go here unless you’re filming a documentary for weird places or if you’re a desperate influencer hunting for...

Honestly as mad as everyone is I totally understand, but idk 😂 Me and my boy booked this place for a night and it was one of the strangest things I’ve ever experienced😂. To the point that it was actually hilarious and I had a good time with it. It does smell everywhere in the building. Couldn’t quite place it. But my guess was it was all the paint that was very clearly being added constantly to quite literally every surface. We got in late and the older man at the front desk helped us check in. Again didn’t understand a word he said and he did seem possibly high? He will in fact sell you on some type of spiritual experience or philosophy. The paper he gave me, which is still have, is absolutely the most nonsensical thing I have ever read I still have it for the memories. But to each his own, just roll with it. I really don’t know but thinking back at the experience still makes me crack up. It was so weird in so many ways. It would take too long to list them all. I’d say if you’re young and you mistakenly book this place, depending on your personality you’ll either freak out with disgust or you will find the whole situation hysterical like we did. But yah it’s not like you’re in danger and it’s not as bad as some people say. But I’d never book it again, or maybe I would. It really was hysterically funny. Anyways cheers. Bring a...