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Leningradskaya Hotel     K    +7 (095) 975-3032

Street Address: 21/40, Kalanchevskaya Street - Moscow, Russia

Location: Very Good.

Nearest Metro:

Staff Speaks English? Some.

Would I Stay Here? Yes, on the upper floors - for the view.

* Unusual Soviet Hotel. Like A Museum *

Wow... here is an untainted Stalin style hotel which was opened in 1954. It's like a museum. They could charge admission. It is an old place, but they have maintained it pretty good. The Metropol Hotel is a mixture of old and new. The Leningradskaya is all old. It is fascinating. When this hotel first opened, it must have been very luxurious. The lobby is very interesting and looks unchanged from 50 years ago, but it looks good! A second much larger lobby is deeper into the hotel. It is such a cavernous area that it reminds me of 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.

The hotel is located at the intersection of 3 railroad stations. So this is a busy area. If you were coming from Saint Petersburg on the train, you could walk to the Leningradskaya Hotel if you had rooms reserved there.

I could not see the rooms on my March 23, 2004 visit but I did get a thorough facility tour. They have the longest chandeliers in the world - 6 floors! It's in the Guinness Book Of World Records (according to hotel staff). Wow, they've got some huge marble columns there. It really feels like a museum.

On the guest floors, the corridors have dark cherry wood walls. Lighting is dark. And even though old, everything is in good condition. A key lady is on each floor. Soon the hotel will be privately owned, so things here will probably change a lot.

I imagine the guest rooms are old and plain. Prices currently range from $82 to $236 plus a "booking tax" of 10%. ??? (I never heard of that before.)

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