Novotel Bucarest City Centre

A very nice hotel, with some "style", but really incomfortable. Rooms are nice, but bathroom need redesign. The style is modern, but quite useless. You take a shower, and everyday you have a pond in the bath, water goes everywhere. Sink is also very stylish, but not pleasant to use. And the WC is in another room??? Unbelievable. Food services are good, but very overpriced, you can go for breakfast or lunch at much cheaper places, with the same quality. the wireless changes the login and password very often, so you have to renew it at the desk every time

Things are very expensive in Bucharest on a whole. I have stayed at a couple of other places in Bucharest before. The room was reasonably clean, obvious overpricing on the mini-bar items. The bathroom design initially looked nice, but the shower doors and tiles leaked, leaving a huge puddle to mop up every time I used it. The tub shower attachment as well sprayed water everywhere, and the sink though nifty in design look was not very functional. I noticed this is a business hotel, and though I didn't check it out on late Friday or Saturday nights, the recreation room though nice seemed to be primarily a ghost town. I found it sort of weird to have the toilet in a different room than the sinks/shower in the rooms. Meant having to travel from one room to the other to wash up after.... Some issues with the AC in the rooms. Had to point the "fan" directly on me to sleep at night. The staff was generally friendly, and willing to help out with things on a positive note (best thing I think there). The hotel parking was overpriced (60Lei/24hr) though probably typical for the city. It wasn't affilitated directly with the hotel, and had to be charged to the room from the front desk. The breakfast buffet was nothing to write home about either. though there were a variety of things to eat, most of the cooked items were overcooked, dry. Overall, I'd give this place a 2.5 out of 5 stars. It will have problems as it gets a bit older too. I'd tentatively recommend it to others simply because of its location in the city center and is 1/2 the cost of the Radison one block away.