We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Petro Palace. The rooms were simple and clean, the staff were very friendly and the location is perfect.

The Good:

* Well located hotel, one of the best located in the city, walking distance to everywhere. We stayed 5 days and didn't use the metro once (consider it was -5 and snowing!).

* Clean, large rooms with good turndown service.

* Price - we paid €300 for 5 nights via Compare-Hotels.co

The Bad

* The Sky Bar - really overpriced drinks served by the most miserable teenager ever.
* The Hotel Restaurant - lame food, lame service and a terrible cabaret.

The Ugly:

* Doormen who don't open the door but just watch you with slight disdain.
* Coffee and breakfast is absolutely rank. Skip it. Don't pay for Breakfast and go across the road to any of the cafes which are cheap and better.
* The "gym" consists of machines that even on their weakest settings would challenge even fit women! The pool is an ice dip and so small you'll never "swim" in it. Try the Neva rather than this pool, touch warmer!

In Conclusion:
If you don't need any facilities and need a comfortable base to carry out your trip, this is perfect. Don't use the bar/restaurant/gym and don't ever expect a smile from any of the staff.

This may be one of the worst hotels I have ever stayed in. We booked the Petro Palace because of the location, star rating and gym. Ignore all of the above except the faultless location. We arrived earlier than check in time and asked whether it was possible to check in early, we had experienced this in other Hotels during our trip and were offered a room immediately. The Petro Palace responded to our request as though we had asked to borrow their underwear. They initially couldn't confirm our booking rate even though we had a print out of our hotel voucher confirmation with payment details. The receptionist then offrered us an early check in after checking our room was available and much consultation with colleagues for half the nightly rate. As we were only two hours early we declined their offer and decamped to a lovely local cafe.This was been a taste of things to come! When we finally cheched in, the alleged four star hotel was more reminescent of a nasty travel tavern with cheap furniture. The room was clean and that is the best I can honestly say about it. The real treat however came at breakfast, or 'Coffeegate' as it became known. The breakfast buffet was acceptable but there were lots of staff standing around with no real purpose apart from apparently keeping guests away from their morning coffee. After much hunting for aforementioned coffee it was offered but ant attemtps at refills were blocked. The coffee 'monitor' was absent for most of the breakfast shift but any attempts by any guest to help themselves to a refill resulted in previously absent staff appearing and attempting to wrestle the coffee pot away from the caffiene starved guest. The highlight of the morning was watching a hugely irate German lady squaring up to the clearly untrained staff, for the whole three mornings we were there. The gym, which we may have stupidly assumed was free given the star rating wasn't although no one was using it. The pool was freezing and the size of a postage stamp. It was a rubbish hotel.

It was commented enough about perfect location of the hotel.The rooms are also quite comfortable. Basically that's all I enjoyed there. The breakfast consisted of a sandwich from a supermarket and a cup of coffee or tea. Internet is available at the rooms only at extra fee (around 15 EUR per day), the gym and the swimming pool are small and inconvinient (also you have to pay additionally for them), the jacuzi was out of order during the whole week I stayed there. The laundry was done awfully. In addition the walls are so thin that you can hear your neighbour clicking the lights switch.