Kúpeľný Hotel Palace — Hotel in Sliač

This uses to be really nice hotel in 30-ies. Architecture -great functionalism. Unfortunately, the spirit is gone, except of it, it is still influenced by communism. I mean equipment, smell of chloride in the bathrooms, weird furniture, strange decorations, ... ||We were lucky the first day we checked in. There was a young lady in practice. She was really trying to help us as hotel lost our reservation (actually forgot to add it to reservation system). We booked "the best room" - called "standard". Unfortunately it seemed we can not get it but then she found one. Another types of rooms are called "Economy" and "Retro". Well, as we entered our standard room, I would consider it as retro mixed with economy. It was definitely not worth of 55 Eur/night. The best was the view! The rest I can not recommend.||Next day, there was another receptionist - a bit older. She noticed us but continued working on PC, then picked private phone call - while queue was getting longer and longer. All we wanted was to leave our luggage there. We had to wait around 10 minutes, listen to many complaints from others about lax personnel. Really return back to communism when a receptionist was king of world.||I do not recommend to be accomodated in this hotel. It is not cheap, you will not get proper service, nearby thermal pool is cold (28C), just it is located in a calm enviroment.But there is an exception: if you want to return 30 years in...

This is a huge, slightly forbidding, complex of variously starred hotels on a hilltop and in extensive, park-like grounds. Cars had to be parked at the bottom of the hill, with many steps to ascend. The car park had a 24-hour security guard. ||||The room was functional, clean and adequately furnished and had an unusual, metallic look door- but there were no bars on the windows ! There was a good shower- as should be expected in a spa. Small TV, with BBC & Eurosport. ||||The restaurant was quite a long walk (outside, mainly under cover) from Reception. Dinner was plain, but tasty, with several choices and good-sized portions. One couldn’t escape the impression of hospital fare: but there was nothing wrong with this. Breakfast was an extensive buffet, with...

Nikdy nepochopím, ako niekto dokázal nechať takto spustnúť také vzácne a jedinečné kúpele. O budove hotela ani nehovorím. Taká drzosť, ponúkať ho ako trojhviezdičkový hotel... Už pri vstupe na "recepciu" nás zarazila všadeprítomná potuchnutá starina. Chceli sme sa otočiť a odísť hneď, ale tak dobre, dáme tomu šancu. Nemali sme to robiť. Nie sme nijak zvlášť nároční, ale čo je veľa, to je moc. Po peripetiách s čakaním, vypisovaním, zmätku a chaose u lekára, nás konečne ubytovali na mínus druhom poschodí. Cesta výťahom... raz a už nikdy. Ten výťah pamätá asi rok založenia kúpeľov. Chodby ako v horore, koberce staré, hnusné, obrovské špinavé fľaky, izba malá, nábytok "novší", ale smrad sme nevyvetrali ani po piatich dňoch. Fľaky na koberci radšej nespomínam. Personál milý, prívetivý, robia čo môžu v podmienkach 70tych rokov /až na pani "riaditeľku zemegule" pri okienku, kde sa plánujú procedúry./ Jedáleň ako kedysi dávno v škole, rovnaký aj výber jedál. Bez fantázie, jedlo takmer vždy presolené /lebo veď chorí ľudia na srdce môžu slané, že?/ Jediné šťastie, že boli aspoň raňajky jedlé. Procedúry... ako tak dobré, len to zariadenie... malý bazén s hrdzavým zábradlím a miesto kachličiek v bazéne - starobou zajdeté linoleum imitujúce kachličky a v bazéne drevené lavičky. Steny fľakaté, v kútoch plesnivé. Ale našli sme aj pozitíva, prekrásna príroda a jej bohatstvo - pramene, vychádzky po veľmi príjemných chodníčkoch, lenže o tieto sa manažment hotela nijako nezaslúžil. Odporúčame pána riaditeľa s celým manažmentom ubytovať v izbe č.3 tak na mesiac, bez možnosti otvoriť okno. Ani na vetračku. A všetko...