A Soviet-era hotel! Anyone who wants to fully experience the atmosphere of the time of the USSR is welcome here. It's even interesting - the hotel is like a portal to the past-furniture, lamps, bathrooms, breakfasts - everything is from there. We knew where we were going, it didn't bother us. The room is clean, the bed linen, towels are all clean. View from the balcony to the square and the monument to Lenin. Near the Arbat, there are many cafes, they accept payment with Russian cards. Turn on the backlight in the evening.
A very good hotel, for lovers of the USSR, this is just the thing. It's like entering a kind of museum of the past. It's very quiet. The staff is polite and friendly. It is possible to pay with Russian cards.
Friends, fellow travelers, if you are lucky enough to visit Baikonur, and even more so to see the rocket launch with your own eyes, no way — do you hear! — DON't stay in this hotel for ANYTHING!!! Otherwise, all the travel experiences will be ruined.
I won't tell you what awaits you here is the most luxurious Council in terms of interior and comfort. No, there might even be some zest in this: the legacy of the great epoch, the way Soviet cosmonauts lived... etc.
The horror begins when you realize that the service (if you can call it that) It is still at an earlier stage of evolution.
Colleagues on the second floor complained about the lack of hot water. When we were on the third floor, we washed in the cubicles, which were dented and leaking from all the cracks, relatively normally. But wi-fi categorically refused to reach the rooms and I had to pay three times the roaming fee to stay connected.
The toilet is a work of art! Sitting on it, you have to open the door to the toilet so that your feet don't rest against the door. It is very convenient to take selfies in the mirror opposite — push the hook.
Food is generally a separate song. When you go down to an empty canteen for breakfast and try to figure out where and how you can have a snack (breakfast and dinner were paid in advance), you are told that you must walk in formation with your entire group, warn someone about this in advance, and no one has prepared anything yet. Sit and wait, smerd. When you arrive for dinner at 8 or even 6 p.m. (on the day of check-in), you may be told: everyone has already left, the dining room is closed! Although your organizer discussed the arrival time in advance.
BUT that's not all. For 4 of the 6 days of our group's arrival, none of the staff bothered to clean the room, or even change towels or take out the trash can.
Bottom line: believe me, I have something to compare it with, because sometimes I live for two weeks a month in different hotels in our country. And the only thing worse than this was the Kaif hotel (real name) in Altai, in fact, cabins for shift workers.
Have a nice trip, colleagues!