The good: McDonalds & Irish bar w/decent food across the street, supermarket & metro 2 blocks away (downtown is 4 stops away on metro, 15 minutes - costs equivalent $ 0.25/ea way)
The bad: bed size fit for a dog, as comfortable as laying on a bed of rocks, need microscope for the tiny tv, every channel (about 50) is 100% Ukrainian dubbed), the paid internet card konks out every 15 minutes, 2 guards inside the hotel look like untrained ex-KGB - they're waiting for a terrorist attack it seems - they just sit there, stare you down & check your keys before letting you through to elevator.
The ugly: buffet breakfast one of the absolute worst on the planet, am pretty sure something like this would be shut down even in Mexico ... no telling what is in the meat, the 'scrambled eggs' definitely did not taste like or look a normal scrambled egg, OJ is made of 95% water, dining hall feels like a prison, if you want to play Russian roulette & try breakfast, I suggest you stick with the bread and vegetables.
Tip - for an extra $ 50/night stay in a nice hotel downtown Kiev, you'll be happy you did !
If you have an extra day to spend, I recommend taking the Chernobyl tour - book with New Logic... they pick up you in downtown Kiev 9am, return 6pm
Room Tip: All rooms are likely to be equally crappy
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13 December 2011
Dear ZTraveller88, we as the management team of Hotel Tourist are very sorry our hotel left you so much unsatisfied. We have done really much since May 2011 we came to the hotel and the buffet type breakfast was a real step forward international travellers. Surely a moderate cost hotel as Tourist Hotel is can't afford to propose fresh juices or natural coffee on breakfast. We really try to do our best for the breakfast out of the paid tariff. Nevertheless we do propose fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, yohuorts, toasts, meats, ommelette, cakes and drinks. Probably the products do not look like you are used they should look like, but it's nobody's fault.
Concerning the channels we must admit that there're no international channels. We are working on that issue and thank you for highlighting the problem.
As for the bed size, you were in a single room which has a single bed. Unfortunately single beds as a common practice for CIS countries hotels have 1meter per 1.9 meters size. This is an open information available on our official web site and even on hotel's page picture on TripAdvisor.
The security guys are there to assure our guests safety. They are ready for any kind of incident and may ask a visitor for his key if they have a suspicion the person is not or doesn't look like hotel's guest.
We really thank you for your review for it will help us develop. To finish we would like to say that a visit to Chernobyl is not a sane idea and we wouldn't reccommend it to our guests, but we do respect your interests and values.
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