Excellent rooms, modern and clean. Lots of light. Rooms have a comfortable and nice working area where 2 people can easily work together. Lots of space to leave your clothes, better than most bussines hotels. The room includes an ironing machine and table, very convenient if you travel with a small luggage. Big bathroom, nice shower including a hair dryer.

Free Wireless connection everywhere in the hotel (rooms and local areas), working really fast. Coffee and tea facilities in the room, including a free water bar. Excellent quality sleep: quiet place, good bed (matress and pillows). Flat TV with international channels.

Staff speaking good english. They also have a printer next to the reception desk for guests to print out whatever they need, e.g. boarding cards.

Breakfast is correct, lots of products to choose from but of an average quality. The breakfast area is nice, modern and quiet even in teh bussiest moments.

On the other hand:

- The hotel is not well located. This area is only convenient if you are visiting Bucharest's business area or the Agricultural Sciences University. Therefore, not well connected with public transport, only taxis available. The hotel is 10-15 mins walk from Piata Presei Libere, a central point for public transport, but 15 mins walk in wintertime can be a very long way specially under the snow.
- It is also far away from restaurants, only 2 oriented to hotel clients available (very expensive in romanian terms).
- The service is a bit impersonal, although correct.

We wanted to stay at a new, modern hotel that was non-smoking (as smoking is so common in Romania and we heard many other hotels allowed or had formerly allowed smoking inside). We also wanted a quiet hotel since staying in the center of the city can often be noisy. The hotel was perfect for our needs!

As a light sleeper, I was thrilled that the hotel was pin-drop quiet. Our room was modern and very clean. Since the hotel is newly built, it did not have any smoke smell in it. The room had its own thermostat with air conditioning and heating and even though it was winter, our room was very well insulated and warm without us having to use the heating.

The hotel offered a large spread of breakfast items (included in the room rate) and we were very happy with the large selection and great taste of the breakfast selection.

The hotel is in the north part of the city - not a long drive from the airport (but you don't hear airplanes). We had tours arranged for our entire trip so we didn't mind being outside the center of town however if you want to be able to walk around the center of town then this hotel probably isn't best located for you. There are other hotels next door to this one so we were able to eat at their restaurants too for some variety. Also a famous traditional Romanian restaurant is in the same parking lot at this hotel so that is very convenient.

An interesting story is that we actually were supposed to stay at the Hotel Christina (#1 rated currently on Trip Advisor - booked over 2 months ago). However, we got a phone call on my husband's blackberry while we were at the airport in London about to board our flight to Bucharest telling us that they no longer had a room for us! They said that a pipe had burst in the room we were supposed to stay in (understandable - things happen) and that they thought that they could have the room ready/fixed in time for our stay but it turned out that by end of business on Friday afternoon that they could not. We found this unacceptable that they notified us so last minute! If they knew the pipe had broke and they were trying to fix it they should have given us a heads up about it sooner rather than call us last minute when they figured out it could not be fixed in time. What if we had already boarded our flight???? Then we would have arrived at the hotel and then been told that we didn't have a room! Hotel Christina told us that they did not have any other rooms at their hotel but that they had arranged us a room at the Howard Johnson for the same rate. While it was a nice gesture, my husband and I were very displeased as the Howard Johnson does not have the attributes that we chose the Hotel Christina for (quiet, not in the city center, non-smoking) so it was not an appropriate substitution. Also, we had pre-arranged airport transfers and tour pick-up/drop-offs at Hotel Christina and it took me complaining and telling them that it was unacceptable customer service for them to acquiesce and offer to pay for our taxi to/from the other hotel. While this was nice of them to agree to that, we still were not happy being forced into staying at the Howard Johnson (which we would never have chosen on our own) so luckily, we were able to get ahold of the company that we were taking our tours with and they were able to book us a hotel here at the Ramada Plaza.

Things turned out for the best as the Ramada Plaza ended up being the perfect hotel for our needs as it was quiet, modern, 100% non-smoking, newly built, had American size King beds (not 2 twins pushed together like some hotels do) and a delicious large breakfast spread. We would stay here again!

Stayed at Ramada plaza during a short visit to Bucharest in late 2010. Nice rooms, clean, all basic amenities and a very good breakfast. Only downside - Its at some distance from city centre and one needs to plan well given Bucharest traffic. Recommended for short stay.

Having visited twice in the last few months, I would recommend this hotel to anyone. The accommodation is clean and modern with free wi-fi. The only negative is that the water pressure of the shower was not great and during the afternoon the water wasn't hot. Beds are very comfy and large (King size). Air-con was excellent for when I stayed during the summer. Other helpful things is that there is a printer available in the lobby for all guests to use (no additional charges).

The staff were friendly and efficient.

Overall a pleasant stay.