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Royal Meridien National Hotel

View from a guest room at the Royal Meridien National Hotel in Moscow.

Alphabetical Listing Of Moscow Hotels
Reviews By Ed Ryder Of Russian Guide Network, Inc.

Hotel Academicheskaya - so-so. You are better off staying elsewhere.
Aerostar Hotel - a good hotel, Canadian owned.
Air Hotel   ...at Domodedovo Airport - excellent quality. I was impressed.
Airpolis Hotel - only the VIP floor is good. I never saw beds so low to the floor before.
Hotel Akvarel - excellent location; very good facility; priced well for this location.
Alexander Blok Hotel Casino Nightclub - tiny rooms; nice restaurant. Close to World Trade Center.
Hotel Alpha - best rooms in this neighborhood.
Hotel Alrosa Na Kazachyem - machine guns across the street.
Altai Hotel - updated rooms are a good value.
Ararat Park Hyatt - the best hotel in the city.
Hotel Arbat - location is very good. Facility is old.
Arena Hotel - a certain mistake to stay here.
Ark Hotel - bad location. Extremely difficult to find.
Hotel Arktika - they say foreigners are not welcome. Photo of the Arkitka.
Hotel As - Russian train exhaust is stinky. You'll learn all about this if you stay here.
Baikal Hotel - thumbs down. Front entrance makes it look good, but it's crappy.
Hotel Baltschug Kempinski - excellent facility and quite expensive.
Baza Moryakov - foreigners not accepted.
Hotel Bega - free horse races from your balcony!
Belgrad Hotel - good value.
Hotel Complex Berlin - packs of stray dogs nearby.
Best Western Art Hotel - German owned and managed. Beer parties in the back.
Hotel Bitsa - nice new rooms, but too far from everything.
Brighton Hotel - a bit out of the way, but very nice and next to a great children's park.
Hotel Budapest - excellent location; facility was not impressive - just so-so.
Hotel Centralnaya - oh, this one is bad, although the location is excellent.
Central Tourist House Hotel - bad attitude at the front desk, but they've got some decent rooms.
Club 27 Hotel - their hospitality is highly unimpressive. And they want big money for the rooms!
Cosmos Hotel - excellent pool; nice top floor restaurant with a view.
Danislovskaya Hotel - a bit strange with the large quantity of church guy portraits all over the hotel.
Dinaoda Hotel - excellent. New. Near exhibition center park.
Hotel East West - looks great from the outside. Interior and hospitality were a letdown.
Hotel Energetik - foreigners not accepted.
Eridan Apartment Hotel - not the greatest neighborhood to stay in (real dull).
Fili Hotel - a crappy shack.
Gamma Delta Hotel - nice lobby! A great lobby to hang-out in. Rooms are better at Alpha though.
Gasis 1 Hotel - inexpensive; plain, boring neighborhood.
Gasis 2 Hotel - cockroach on lobby sofa. Old rooms.
Gasis 3 Hotel - closed.
Gazprom Hotel - so arrogant. Location is bad. They check every car for bombs.
Globus Hotel - so-so. Near exhibition center.
Golden Ring Hotel - great top floor restaurants! Great views of the city.
Gostiny Dom 1 Hotel - bad.
Gostiny Dom 2 Hotel - bargain, but poorly located.
Grand Victoria Hotel - a disappointment.
G & R Hostel - there are better places to stay.
Intercen Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
Iris Congress Hotel - excellent facility, poor location.
Izmailovo Vega Hotel - looks bad.
Katerina City Hotel - excellent. Very modern decor.
Hotel Kometa - a hotel for police!
Kuzminki Hotel - very plain. Not that great.
Leftortovo Hotel - looks nice, seems cheap, dull location.
Leningradskaya Hotel - like a museum. Old, but very interesting.
Marco Polo Presnja Hotel - good hotel, good neighborhood.
Marriott Grand Hotel - some people think it's great. I was not impressed. Rooms are fine though.
Marriott Royal Aurora Hotel - classy. Love the atrium.
Marriott Tverskaya Hotel - dull decor. Rooms are fine.
Metallurg Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
Hotel Metropol - great dining hall. Great location. Unimpressed with rooms.
Mezhdunarodnaya Hotel - a good hotel. Has really fast elevators too.
Minzdrava Rossii Hotel - no foreigners.
Hotel Minsk - to be torn down.
Hotel Minsky - bad.
Mir Hotel Complex - across the street from American embassy.
Hotel Molodezhni - one great room. Bad location.
Moscvich Hotel - so-so; very difficult to find.
Moskovo-Oozbeckski Hotel - renovated rooms are good. Location is bad.
Hotel Mozhaiskaya - bad.
MPA Hotel - no foreigners.
Hotel Neptun - no foreigners.
Nizhny Novgorod Ship Hotel - clearly the nicest ship hotel in Moscow.
Novotel Moscow Centre Hotel - excellent. Interesting cafe on top floor.
Novotel Sheremetyevo 2 Moscow Airport Hotel - excellent. Blows away their local competitor.
Octankino Hotel - bad. I didn't walk under the roof overhang because I thought it could fall on me.
Oochebnaya Hotel - they've got new, cheap rooms. Location is not that great.
Hotel Orbita - no foreigners, unless you are a hot-looking woman (according to the old man sitting in the old, beat-up lobby chair).

Orekhovo Apartment Hotel - good, close to a metro, but far from the city center.
Orlyonok Hotel Casino Complex - interesting big hotel and lots of casino action. Bowling. Billiards.
Oxana Business Hotel - this is the new name of the Dinaoda Hotel. It's quite nice.
Ozerkovskaya Hotel - seems to be a business traveller's hotel.
Hotel Pallada - very poor location.
Hotel Pallada (Ship Hotel) - Nizhny Novgorod Ship Hotel is superior and just a few steps away.
Park Hotel AST - nearby Proton Business Hotel is better.
Park Place - nice mall. Apartments available for daily rent. Far from downtown.
Peking Hotel - unfriendly. Security guy is a goon.
Pervomayskaya Hotel - they say they always have rooms available in summer.
Pierce Hotel - oh, you don't want to stay here.
Posolstva Kazakhstan Hotel - kooky head of security thought I was an American spy.
President Hotel - bizarre, like a 1970's time capsule; super high security.
Proton Business Hotel - excellent facility. Far from downtown.
Radisson SAS Slavyankskaya Hotel & Business Center - excellent. Nice mall. Great restaurants.
Renaissance Moscow Hotel - excellent. A little isolated.
Rossiya Hotel - excellent location, unsure of facility quality, crappy customer service philosophy.
Royal Meridien National Hotel - best location. Great views of the Kremlin.
Royal Zenith Hotel - Unique hideaway mini-hotel on an unusual island.
Salyut Hotel - big hotel. The have some nice rooms, but the location is terrible.
Hotel Savernaya - "under reconstruction." They have no idea when they will finish. (Maybe never.)
Hotel Savoy - excellent location; interesting hallways.
Sayani Hotel - value-priced rooms. Bad location.
Hotel Sevastopol - front desk ladies are horrible, but they do have nice rooms.
Seventh Floor Hotel - very difficult to find. Location is bad.
Sheraton Palace Hotel - good rooms, especially on VIP floor.
Sheremetyevo 2 Hotel Complex - oh, their customer service attitude is quite bad.
Sherston Hotel - low prices; updated section is good. Location is not that great.
Slavyanka Hotel - junky, inadequate security, high risk of reservation cancellation.
Sovietsky Historical Hotel - unique, unusual, elegant and fascinating.
Hotel Complex Soyuz - quality hotel. You'll need a driver to get there.
Soyuz Hotel - old, but has a certain charm. Far from downtown.
Sport Hotel - closed.
Sport Hotel At Olympic Bike Stadium - no foreigners.
Sputnik Hotel - machine gun cop greets you at the front door with a super tough stare. Geez!
Sretenskaya Hotel - wow, check out their jungle atrium!
Svershkov 8 Hotel - nice neighborhood, but unimpressive facility. They have a pet owl.
Hotel Tatiana - this is a very good hotel in a nice neighborhood
Hotel Teplokod - simply awful with truly unbearable, toxic stench.
Hotel Tiflis - oh, I loved this mini-hotel. Super!
Hotel Tourist - they have some new rooms that are a little plain. Pricing on the low end. 
Travellers Guest House - the neighborhood is boring. You are nowhere near the action here.
Tsaritsino Apartment Hotel - oh man, they have a horrible way of treating people.
Hotel Ukraina - so unimpressive, what a disappointment.
Hotel Universitetskaya - absolutely horrible. A disgrace. Fire the general manager!
Hotel Uzkoe - terrible, very isolated location.
Vladykino Apartment Hotel - they are eager for guests! Close to a metro station. Ugly neighborhood.
Volga Hotel - unimpressive service attitude.
Hotel Voskhod - cheap, clean, close to a metro station. Neighborhood is nothing great.
Hotel Vostok - I didn't think it was that bad, but my assistant disagreed.
Hotel Youzhni - simply pathetic.
Warsaw Hotel - my vote for best value.
Hotel Yaroslavskaya - it has at least one good, fairly inexpensive room.
Yunost Hotel - metro is close. Eighth floor rooms are good. Nobody speaks English there.
Hotel Zarya - building 12 is good. Pricing is good. Location is just so-so.
Hotel Zolotoy Kolos - they have some very good recently renovated rooms at good pricing.
Zvezdnaya Hotel - has very creative theme rooms.

Private Apartments I have stayed at which are good:

Serpukhovskaya Metro Station Area - top notch landlord, nice neighborhood, recently renovated .
Mayokovskaya Metro Station Area - comfortable, very good location, free internet access!
 

Reviews for Moscow where done in March and April 2004 by Ed Ryder. Room pricing should not be relied upon as accurate since rates change for various reasons including strong demand and inflation, and where rates have been provided, it is only meant to serve as a guide and all pricing should be verified with the hotel.

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