This three-star hotel offers clean, quiet, comfortable accommodation close to most of the main city centre attractions. There's no restaurant, so breakfast is room service (it comes at the time requested but is not great - just about acceptable), or you get a voucher to take breakfast in a local restaurant (we did not try this). The rooms are more spacious than many similarly-starred western European hotels. The bed was comfortable. The bathroom (shower only) was 'bijou' but everything worked OK. We found the staff very helpful and polite. Odessa in July is rather 'Blackpool hosts Essex man' (an allusion probably only understood by Brits), best summed up by the audience at the famous opera house happily using camera flash equipment and clapping along with the music - at a performance by the Bolshoi ballet!! (The management eventually told them to desist). The Potemkin steps will disappoint anyone who has seen the film. My wife reports good shopping opportunities (my credit card supports this statement).
