The design as well as the furniture are old style not a 4 star level. The service is also poor. Staff sometimes rude. On the reception do not pay enough attention to the customers. not a 4 star level.

The Codru Hotel in Chisinau has a lot of these typical communist interior features. An elevator that is too small makes a lot of noise and furniture that is full of what we call “plaqué” furniture of the 70’s. The carpet in the corridor is full of stains and the personnel has still some habits from past time. When you look a little bit further, behind the short answers, there is a very good service. I have stayed many times in this hotel since 2000 and I have seen things evolve for the good. The infrastructure is still the same but the service has become very good. Especially the restaurant and food is just excellent. The little bar in the reception area does not look very attractive but serves excellent Italian espresso.

It is really worth a "very good" but decided to go for "average" because of some lack of service.
The hotel is actually quite nice, and situated across a park. The room was OK, enough cupboards, everything clean, bed OK, pillows reasonable. The shower a bit cramped in the bath, but OK, towels fine, and very good slippers provided. BBC world was there, the tv was a bit old but that I don't mind. The food (breakfast, and had dinner room service 3 times) was actually rather good. reception girls were reasonably OK.

This sounds all great - so what did not work:
- roomservice: 1 night I had to wait 1 hour 50 minutes for a very simple order (soup and cheese). The cheese platter, when it came, was truly excellent though... when I phoned after 1 hour I was told "5 minutes" and so on. Not very professional.
- the second night I had to wait 1 hour 15 minutes
- the third night 1 hour 30 minutes - and then the food was brought by a non roomservice waiter (did not know I had to sign). All this for simple dishes when being reassured all the time that it would take 15 minutes, or that food was on its way. This night I again tried the cheese platter but the quality was distinctly less than the first night -apparantly not a standardized meal.
The breakfast - 3 times I had brealfast before 7:30, and then everything was in order.
But the only morning I arrived at 8:45 it was really awful and therefore the average rating. There was no bottled water, no tea (no teapots, no hot water, no tea bags), no jam etc. And there were only 15 people or so seated at that time! Only one time a waiter rushed through the room, said yes left and right to requests, and disappeared not to be seen again. Meanwhile, the egg-chef and cheese waitress were happily chatting and laughing with one another without chipping in or so - there was even no cut cheese available, but the lady in charge of that did not bother. So I had to eat some dry bread with nothing to drink, seated at a table loaded with dirty plates. This is really a pity since the hotel is quite good otherwise!

It is a nice hotel, clean rooms and a very tasty breakfast, and also the service was very good. The room was a little bit small and also the bad, but it was ok.