Hotel Klee — Hotel in Montevideo

We stayed at this hotel for one night - the purpose, unfortunately, was a funeral, and the objective was somewhere convenient to the location, and good value.||||The hotel is pretty much as close to 18 de julio as you can get, and that puts you pretty much at the centre of Montevideo - restaurants and shopping and bars are just around the corner.||||The staff were professional and very pleasant during our stay, and the hotel does include parking facilities, which is another plus.||||The rooms are very basic, with the single room by default providing twin beds (not sure how full the hotel was on the date we stayed).||||My room included a shower, and while some of the facilities and setup looks a little aged, it was all perfectly functional.||||My biggest complaint about the hotel is the keycard / door system. For some incomprehensible reason, you cannot use your keycard without generating so much beeping that the entire floor can hear you coming into the room. I just don't understand the benefit, or why something more elegant has not been installed.||||The rooms do include TV with a wide range of channels, but I wouldn't say you're spoiled for choice.||||The stay included breakfast in the morning, and this covered a pretty traditional Uruguayan hotel breakfast offering that included sweet breads / croissants, fruit juice, ham, cheese, yoghurt etc.||||Don't forget to bring ID for the check in - it is a requirement it seems.||||Oh - and one other thing - the cupboards in the room do have safes in them, but the one in my room was not working, and I think one of the others was non functional too. If this is a key requirement then it may be worth specifying on check in or checking it before...

We stayed at this hotel for one night - the purpose, unfortunately, was a funeral, and the objective was somewhere convenient to the location, and good value.||||The hotel is pretty much as close to 18 de julio as you can get, and that puts you pretty much at the centre of Montevideo - restaurants and shopping and bars are just around the corner.||||The staff were professional and very pleasant during our stay, and the hotel does include parking facilities, which is another plus.||||The rooms are very basic, with the single room by default providing twin beds (not sure how full the hotel was on the date we stayed).||||My room included a shower, and while some of the facilities and setup looks a little aged, it was all perfectly functional.||||My biggest complaint about the hotel is the keycard / door system. For some incomprehensible reason, you cannot use your keycard without generating so much beeping that the entire floor can hear you coming into the room. I just don't understand the benefit, or why something more elegant has not been installed.||||The rooms do include TV with a wide range of channels, but I wouldn't say you're spoiled for choice.||||The stay included breakfast in the morning, and this covered a pretty traditional Uruguayan hotel breakfast offering that included sweet breads / croissants, fruit juice, ham, cheese, yoghurt etc.||||Don't forget to bring ID for the check in - it is a requirement it seems.||||Oh - and one other thing - the cupboards in the room do have safes in them, but the one in my room was not working, and I think one of the others was non functional too. If this is a key requirement then it may be worth specifying on check in or checking it before...

It was a huge relief to arrive at this hotel after a truly awful stay at the Viajero Hostel in Colonia. The location was very good for us, about a 15-minute walk to the old city and with an excellent artisan market across the street. We're on a 7-month trip so we can't be buying up a storm due to lack of room in our luggage, but I could have spent quite a bit in that market otherwise. There are restaurants on the second floor of the market, nothing special, but a good place for a pizza lunch (wood fire ovens). But back to the hotel: breakfast was abundant and varied, including both fruit salad or whole fruit, whole grain bread, croissants, cereal, ham and cheese. Can't beat it. The staff were always friendly and helpful and didn't ask us to pay for our entire stay the minute we walked in the door. This is what happens in many hotels in South America (especially with the worst hotels-- they're probably afraid you'd leave otherwise). The only negatives were the small bathroom and the stale cigarette smoke coming in through the bathroom window, which vented to an air shaft. This tells me that we were on a "smoking" floor, rather than non-smoking. We could probably have remedied the situation by moving, but instead just turned on the AC. Non-smokers should probably request a non-smoking floor. As most hotels are all non-smoking these days, it never crossed our minds that we had to. The one "issue" we had, a safe with a missing door, was remedied (cheerfully) within minutes when they sent someone up to install a door and show us how to use the safe. We recommend this place without...