Have been there mid November for a weekend. The hotel has been refurbished from an earlier trade union resort, like the one just 100 meters far from it. We have been welcome by a nice sewage smell, overloaded later with the heavy, filthy smell coming from the restaurant, mixed in front of the elevators with the clean smell a chloride coming from the wellness. Carpets in the corridors and our room were torn and worn down, should have been changed 10-15 years ago. Rooms equipped with the cheapest plastic framed windows, terrace door. THe bathroom looked nice with the cheapest accessories in the market 10 years ago, we had warm water, or not, depending on whatever. Placing a hairdrier in the bathroom should not qualify you to a 4* hotel. The heating in the room on the other hand was ok, had to turn it down fully for the night. The advisor to the wellness was probably a baker, as it was hot enough, but there were no changing rooms and no toilets inside. Not very convenient! Architecture awful. Dinner was buffee, priced very high at HUF 4000 pp, but at least was the real heavy and smelly type of medieval "Hungarian" food, with the smell sticking to your hair and clothes even the day after, so next day we have gone to the similar hotel nearby: suprise, surprise, excellent food, excellent service, much lower prices. Room price was HUF 44,500 (EUR 80 per night) for the 2 night weekend, giving you a push to spend this rather in sunny Sorrento, or at the Budapest Hilton in December or January, leaving money in your pockets for an extra beer 2-3 beers in a pub. The staircases would fit a 1 or 2* hotel. Windows in the room were not to be opened, as the filthy air from the wellness was pushed just infront of it, that goes for rooms on floor 1-5 above the wellness. Have shared my views with management so that they can change a few things, no answer, so I would strongly recommend the hotel for diehard, retro travellers, wanting to look into Huingary's hosting capabilities, including heavy, fitlhy food 15 years ago. The breakfast was so-so, with coffee acceptable, but only to Hungarian standards. Value for money. 30%.
- Panorama Hotel Siofok
