Hotel Mandalay

I had a great experience with friendly staff. However, due to construction at the main entrance, the check-in counter has been moved to a side door. I stayed on the first floor (actually the second floor), and the first thing I noticed when the elevator doors opened was the overwhelming smell of cigarettes in the hallway. Since it's difficult to eliminate the smell with individual rooms, it would be helpful if they provided a non-smoking floor on each floor. Breakfast was delicious, though I didn't have time to fully enjoy it. However, instead of providing black coffee, they provided a bag of mixed coffee.

The hotel is very old, even antique. With very beautiful mahogany trim in the hotel lobby and reception area. The external gloss turned out to be deceptive. Behind the chic external facade was hidden a pretty worn-out inside of the hotel. The rooms turned out to be old with very tired furniture, once beautiful and also made of wood, and very Spartan furnishings, like a table, a chair, a stool and 2 armchairs without foam rubber. The floor is bare. There is not even a carpet on the floor, which is strange for a 4-room hotel. The view from the window is a matter of luck. The room has air conditioning, a refrigerator, a kettle with mugs and a carafe for water. The bathroom is in a terrible state: the tiles on the floor are all broken and on the walls too, as if they had been shelled. Everything is in glue and carelessly smeared cement. The plumbing is also old and rusty. The food in the hotel is good, but nothing more. It was confusing that the sausages (meat dish), for example, at the counter were thinly sliced ​​and were not in a bain-marie, but on a regular portioned plate, over which the cooks stood and watched how many pieces the guest would put on himself - 1/5 or even 1/3 of a sausage. But there was plenty of local tasty noodles and, as usual, rice. There were also pieces of dried yesterday's fried fish and yesterday's fried chicken, chopped into pieces with a cleaver right with the bones. But it was deliciously cooked, even though it was yesterday's. As they say - the leftovers are sweet. There were no vegetables either. But there was watermelon in unlimited quantities. Various drinks. From the pastries, muffins and croissants. In general, a 4. Now the main big minus. This is the pool. We actually chose this hotel for its presence (and also for the beautiful lobby interior, which turned out to be just tinsel). So we didn't dare dive into the pool: already on the approach to it, 20 meters away, the smell of chlorine began ... When we entered the premises itself (an indoor pool - from the old days), the stench of chlorine simply cut our eyes and nose. We decided that human health is above all else and went back. The hotel itself is located on the central avenue, but far from the center and attractions. We walked about half an hour to the nearest supermarket, we would have gotten there faster, but the sidewalks are broken with large holes above the storm drain - we had to walk carefully so as not to break our necks. So if you do stop by here, use a taxi to go to the shops. There is not a single mini-market nearby. In general, the hotel is only for spending the night after a long journey and that's it. It's sad that we were taken in by the beautiful photos of the interior...

It was currently under renovation.