It happened a long time ago but I must share it with you
Written: Mar 18 '03
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Pros: Cheap, a taste of Soviet
Cons: I was there 6 years ago and still remember
The Bottom Line: Reminiscent of the good old soviet days. An experience and fun.
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| vodkaboy's Full Review: Hotel Absheron |
I must say from the outset that the one time I stayed at the Absheron was over 6 years ago. So this information is very out of date. It may have completely changed. However we had a really great time, extremely memorable, and I must share it with you guys.
I was there with a few others and we were put onto a newly refurbished Executive Floor. "Great," we thought.
Back then they still had the "Floor lady" in charge of each floor. When you check in at Reception downstairs they give you a card. Literally a piece of cardboard with your room number on it. Guarding each floor is the Floor Lady, who holds all the actual room keys in a desk and when you get to the floor she gives you your key in exchange for your card.
Whenever you go out you give her the key and get the card back.
The Floor ladies also, if you are nice to them, will take care of your laundry, sew a button back on and other bits and pieces so they are more like a maid or concierge.
Anyway the we all arrived and went to our rooms.
One guy immediately left his newly refurbished executive room as it stank of raw sewage. One of the toilet pipes leaked. He got moved to another room which was okay.
The rooms were small, basic and budget. As you walk into the room there is a toilet and shower immediately on one side. After that the room widens and a single bed is found to the side. The bed is simple, wood, and creaks as soon as anything touches it - it creaked when I laid my eyes on it! Not for the light sleeper, luxury seeker or passionate.
The room itself is a standard, small hotel room. The window at the far end was in one piece, and the newly refurbished curtains covered most of it. The bit not covered woke me every morning better than any wake up call.
My bathroom came with a toilet, bath/shower and wash basin and was clean, tidy and functional. The towel was about the size of a handkerchief but, and I kid you not, dried 90% of me before it became wet! It worked!
Breakfast was served by the floor lady every morning in a room that had beem converted for the purpose. It consisted of fresh bread and rolls, salad (cucumber, tomato etc), jam and honey, cheese, cold meat, and hard boiled eggs. Sounds basic but it did the job. The bread was fresh and good.
There were limited other facilities in the hotel, no pool or fitness centre, just some shops on the ground floor and a casino on another floor. We went in full of bravado and came out devoid of dollars, but we had a laugh, only lost $50 and had a few free drinks in the process.
Overall:
I joke about it but we had a really good stay. I was the only one that had been here before so for everyone else it was their first time in the CIS and they loved it.
For all that we joked, the floor ladies were great and looked after us, darned some socks, sewed some buttons back on. After a few vodkas the light from the 3 foot gap where the curtains didn't meet stopped worrying me, and I didn't heat the bed creaking and my towel was dry after 10 minutes. We had hot and cold water.
Memorable
Recommended:
Yes
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