Hotel Cooperator — Hotel in Kyiv

The hotel is not bad, but it's not great. It's a bit run down and is still in an very old style where there is a reception desk on each floor, and a guy with a big hat who stands at the door, breakfast coupons printed in the 30s, no computers or internet, or vending machines, but a fax machine.||||The hotel is state run, so there is no incentive for profit and very little effort to make accommodations. The reception does not speak English that well, but better than some areas of Kiev. If you need to make changes or want something different, it won't happen.||||If you feel like going back to the 1930s, it's an ok place. It's fairly clean for the cheap rates, but it' not a nice hotel but it's not bad. The people were not super unfriendly, but they were not customer orientated. If they had an incentive to provide better service, it may be better.||||The hotel is next to a cafe, so you can get wifi and a coffee there. It's 24hs.||||The food served was local cuisine. For breakfast they would serve typical cereal and yogurts but also hot food such as liver and rice, fish and rice, chicken and potatoes...for breakfast. Also a local compot which is not meant for those who do not like...

When I arrived at 00:45 in Kiev after a long train journey from Minsk, I was an easy prey for taxi drivers. I had made a reservation in a guesthouse somewhere, but the taxidriver (allegedly) was unable to find it. I was tired and understood only slowly that he was cheating me, but then I said: "bring me to whatever middle class hotel." And then he brought me to Kooperator. The taxi driver asked 300 hrivna (€ 30). Later I saw the same taxi driver hanging around at the hotel. I guess they cooperate (hence the name of the hotel?)||||||I found the hotel quite mediocre, althought nicely centrally situated. Perhaps I paid more due to my arrival in the middle of the night, pretty exhausted. I did not even try the hotel breakfast, but you can have a good (although small) breakfast on the terrace in front of the hotel.||||I guess the hotel is Russian-oriented, since I heard them pronounce the name in the Russian way ("Kaaparetar"), with "vowel reduction", a feature Ukrainian language...

I stayed this hotel 4 nights. Very comfortable and in safe for foreigners especially Japanese. Around many cuisine Ukrainian, Italian and also Japanese tastes. In this hotel coffee house is very nice cosines . So I recommend this hotel for the people that want feel soviet style. Note that all officiants speaks in Russian. And I like to say that English speaker is not major in this world. Please respect their culture. Many Japanese old man does not so, and then be...