This hotel is an ambiguous one. Location- wise it’s great - 2min walk to parliament, 20 min to St Sophia cathedral or (going in the other direction) Percheska Lavra. I didn’t use bus or metro but it was also nearby.
The style is soviet. I can forgive that. But the cleaners don’t seem to clean anything. There we’re old cigarette butts in the balcony and a disproportionate amount of black mould in the shower. Really nasty.
The bed wasn’t comfortable. There was only one pillow. The air con worked well but the safe didn’t. Breakfast was really bad, and I am normally quite easy going.
The price was only like £35 per night for two people, so of course we weren’t expecting the world. But come on! Give over! Use some bleach in the shower sometimes, clean the terrace, it isn’t difficult.
The pictures of the gym were quite misleading. The gym was awful! So too were the pictures of the room. They weren’t nice. Staff barely spoke English, and the taxi they booked to pick us up from the airport didn’t have seatbelts. All the other taxis we used in Kiev did. On our return they didn’t think to ask me what airline I was flying - it turned out I had to go to a completely different terminal upon being dropped off at the main international terminal, had to pay eur10 for a taxi (because the shuttle is incredibly slow) and this was another example of very bad customer service.
So overall poor, and if in Kiev again I wouldn’t return. In all, I don’t recommend it.