In hotel - nice room, comfortable bed, with sofa in the room , balcony and Jacuzzi in the bathroom.
Not good area!!

Although the hotel is clean, the staff are helpful, and the beds are reasonably comfortable, I would not stay at Hotel California again. The place is advertised as being close to the city center, but it is not a walkable distance from the main attractions unless you enjoy walking through construction sites, ill-kempt sidewalks, and unlabeled streets. The hotel is on a dingy side-street that is mostly residential, so we did not feel safe walking home at night. On top of that, half of the cab drivers we hailed in the city center did not know (or pretended not to know) where the hotel was located. The "breakfast" consisted of one stale piece of cake, a piece of ham, and coffee that tasted as if it were brewed the previous day. Our rooms perpetually smelled like cigarette smoke and we could hear everything that was going on in the rooms next to ours - including the drunken yelling and subsquent puking of a Bulgarian man at 8am.

I had a nice room, comfortable bed, with sofa in the room , balcony and Jacuzzi in the bathroom.
The hotel is near the Centre of Sofia, so you can visit many places by feet. They have also free wifi, but you can have access in Internet only in the the Lobby.

Chose this hotel based on other positive reviews and also cheaper price (30 euros for double room). On arrival we were greeted by very smoky lobby and reception area. Staff were polite but not very helpful. I asked them for recommendations to restaurants and tourist sights and got an "I don't know" response repeatedly.

Rooms are clean, smallish and basic. No room safe but has air con. Shower was over bath but no shower curtain (a rare commodity) in hotels in this part of the world. Purple curtains and blanket give the room a bit of a cheesy bordello look but bad decor never hurt anyone right?

Hotel is a few kilometres out from the centre but taxis are cheap (check the sticker for the meter rate before you get in). There is a large mall called the City Centre within a 15 minute walk from the hotel. It has a large cinema that plays English language movies (we were travelling for months in east Europe so this was a bit of a luxury for us).
The restaurant served very nice food at a great price.

There is nothing really wrong with this hotel. It provides good basic accommodation. But when I come back to Sofia I will be staying at the Budapest hotel near the central bus station. Rooms there were 55 euros including breakfast (the above mentioned 30 euros for the Hotel California was without breakfast). The rooms are so much better, the staff exceptional and the restaurant is simply first class.