From the moment we arrived we knew this was going to go horribly wrong. Our operator changed us to this hotel as we were double booked at the Intourist hotel.
Our Russian companion laughed when we said we were being moved to the Tourist Hotel and she said now here is a chance for you to see what life was like during communism!
So what was wrong with it...the complicated ticket / key system that took nearly an hour for our group of five to check in, to the bare carpet and howling gale coming through the windows in the bedrooms, the freezing shower, the fact that most of the group could not fit in the beds made for people under 5'4'', the drunken fighting russians on the floors below which kept us all awake all night were just about the final straw... but then came breakfast...
it was a joke - stale bun and instant coffee sachet. more