On the 2nd of my 3-day stay in this purely Soviet style hotel - I'm referring to its name and its specific, now outdated architecture - I had to switch to a larger and pricier room because the space of my initial room ended looking unnervingly and unbearably small. The faucets and shower looked primitive in the smaller room and much better in the larger room. This shameful and dismaying hospitality "policy" dates back to the Soviet times, when it was customary in Soviet bloc countries to find hotel rooms priced according to the quality of the included amenities - the shabbier the room, the more "affordable" the price was. ||The 2 lifts running up and down next to each other are also small, dating back to the same old times.||The girls at the reception desk looked absent minded and glued to their smart phones whenever I showed up in the lobby area. The security guards, also immersed into their phones once the daylight traffic dies down, keep the old bad habit of having the sliding doors (at the main entrance) working only partially right after dark, so I had to struggle with my luggage through those doors, since keeping a bellboy has always been seen in Soviet Union as something characteristic only to "capitalist societies". I found the supervisor of the front desk area, a blonde lady approaching retirement, most helpful - she behaved most professionally.||To finish with the lobby area, the most appalling and reminiscent of the Soviet days scene was the sight of a cleaning lady using not a mop to clean the luxurious marbled floor but and immense and filthy rag with her own hands, while bending over I've seen her struggling with that slimy rag every single morning. To me, that looked like USSR in its most pristine outlook.||The breakfast, included in the price, was disquietingly bland, insipid, and adjusted to the taste of factory workers and miners. I visited the hotel's restaurant just once and preferred to eat at a place close by, specialized in Asian cuisine and where the food was...
Read moreWe were a group of family members planning to stay 2 nights at the hotel but decided to checkout and move to another hotel after one night.|We were offered to "upgrade" the double bed rooms to the "superior" room , since the addition was small we took the offer.|When got in the room we saw a ventilator in the room- it was odd but still we did not suspect anything. We opened the AC and took a short nap. When we woke up we noticed that we were sweaty and although the AC is making a lot of noise it was not cooling.|Took a shower in the tiny shower and found out that there is not hot water. When putting the hot water to maximum , we got warm like water. |When we got down to the lobby my father was also there trying to "downgrade" back to the regular double room. We found out that the no AC is not a bug but a feature is in the superior rooms. The other members of our family that took the single an twin rooms did had AC, but no one had really hot water. |They refused to change the rooms with no AC and insisted we will pay for the room as we already used and offered 2 single rooms that have AC , insisting that we will pay for them in addition to the double room. We refused and used the ventilator ( no we knew why it was there) during the night, next morning all the group check out and moved to the...
Read moreWhen I was in Rivne last month, I lived in a luxurious and comfortable hotel. It ||||is a four-star hotel with friendly staff. They are capable of speaking a few ||||languages, including Ukrainian, Russian and English.||The hotel offers the first-class service and the most modern facilities for their ||||guests. It is eight-storeyed building. The hotel is located in the center ||||of Rivne. This hotel has 97 guestrooms that are furnished with air conditioners, ||||cold and hot shower, telephone, Wi-Fi, interactive TV and minibar. Each floor has ||||a special smoking room. There is also a car park, family rooms and an elevator in ||||the hotel.||All hotel guests can visit the gym, the sauna and the swimming pool for free. It ||||is an ideal place for recreation and business purposes.||It was an unforgettable to live in this hotel. I was really empressed by cleanliness and convenience. It...
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