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23 Mayıs 2023
The reason for me to go for this hotel was its central location, in walking distance to bus and train station on one side and to the old town on the other. The start was good: a free transfer from the quite far away airport was included, then a very friendly young lady checked me in, also giving me plenty of information, especially about restaurants. Going up by elevator (no other choice from the reception) to the first floor and then up a quite narrow staircase to the second floor, I found a pleasant room facing the Slovenska Avenue. Since I quite liked this room I asked to get, if possible, the same one for my return, but it was not be. Instead I was given a tiny room on the first floor facing the backside (apparently the hotel was booked out). In this room I was not happy at all. There was hardly any storage space for anything and just a very small wardrobe by the entrance door. My suitcase and shoes I had to leave between the double bed and the glass wall of the bathroom. Temperature was a constant 24° C (which could not be changed and which was too much for me at night) and there was a green light blinking constantly from the smoke detector on the ceiling. Mentioning this to the reception a technician came, but he didn't manage to change anything. Breakfast was included, but since the hotel not only has no lobby, but also no restaurant, it had to be taken at a nearby café. Start was at 8am, when there was a queue already outside. Out of six times I only went there once, since the start is too late, if one goes on excursions as I did. Luckily I was at the hotel also on Sundays, when the café is closed and breakfast has to be taken as of 7am at a hotel about 500m away, where there was a nice buffet. There are tea and coffee making facilities in the room, but useless for me, since I don't like the '3 in 1' Jacobs sachets, where coffee is combined with milk powder and sugar. There was a not very ecological daily change of towels and in the bathroom there were no soap bars or liquid soap dispensers, just small plastic bottles as for shampoo as well. The floor in the room on the other hand never saw a dry cleaner during my stay. Strange for a hotel in a European capital city is also the fact that only cash payment is accepted, something I had seen for the last time at 'rooms to rent' on remote Greek islands.
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