Hotelʹ Kyiv — Hotel in Kyiv

This hotel is an ambiguous one. Location- wise it’s great - 2min walk to parliament, 20 min to St Sophia cathedral or (going in the other direction) Percheska Lavra. I didn’t use bus or metro but it was also nearby. ||The style is soviet. I can forgive that. But the cleaners don’t seem to clean anything. There we’re old cigarette butts in the balcony and a disproportionate amount of black mould in the shower. Really nasty. ||The bed wasn’t comfortable. There was only one pillow. The air con worked well but the safe didn’t. Breakfast was really bad, and I am normally quite easy going.||The price was only like £35 per night for two people, so of course we weren’t expecting the world. But come on! Give over! Use some bleach in the shower sometimes, clean the terrace, it isn’t difficult.||The pictures of the gym were quite misleading. So too were the pictures of the room. They weren’t nice. Staff barely spoke English, and the taxi they booked to pick us up from the airport didn’t have seatbelts. All the other taxis we used in Kiev did. On our return they didn’t think to ask me what airline I was flying - it turned out I had to go to a completely different terminal upon being dropped off at the main international terminal, had to pay eur10 for a taxi (because the shuttle is incredibly slow) and this was another example of very bad customer service. ||So overall poor, and if in Kiev again I wouldn’t return. In all, I don’t...

Stayed here for a couple of nights last month in a week of different Soviet-era hotels.||||This is centrally located (5min walk from Arsenalna - and don't let me catch you walking from Maidan square, the hike up rhe hill will kill you!). You can grab one of the frequent buses coming down from the WWII museum if you don't want the walk. Bus stop right near the Metro.||||The hotel overlooks Mariinsky park and also the Parliament building, which makes for a pleasant view out the balcony, which all rooms have.||||The rooms are mid-90s style, bathrooms more upto-date and are seemingly in good order with everything spotless. Air conditioning is powerful and effective. Only gripe was brown water from old piping in the shower - Let them run a bit. Very quiet with no road noise thorugh the double glazing.||||The checkin staff were very pleasant and cheery (good English, also) - a refreshing change in Ukrainian hotels.||||Breakfast was very decent by Kiev standards and had decent coffee and food. Tonnes of choice, with fruit, cereal, cakes, eggs/sausage etc. I wish I wasn't in such a hurry, as you could enjoy a small banquet here! The only other hotel breakfast in Kiev to rival this would likely be the Hotel Ukraine or one of the (hugely more expensive)...

We stayed here for two nights to see Kyiv city before visiting Chernobyl and then attending a convention south of the city.||||The location of the hotel is more or less perfect, within walking distance (or very cheap taxi/uber) to the main attractions - the museums in one direction, or the city centre in the other.||||On arrival, we were pleased to find a currency conversion desk as we were unable to buy UAH in the UK, so we easily changed out money at a reasonable rate.||||The view from the balcony was amazing, and the rooms were comfortable. My only complaint would be the lack of facilities - there was no hair dryer, fridge or kettle (maybe having tea in the room is just a British thing!) - but otherwise, the hotel was clean and well decorated, and the staff were friendly and helpful. Our stay was short so we did not need many of the hotel facilities, but I'm confident that they would have been up to standard should we have...