Cosmos Hotel

All the “amenities”were extra. That was not included in the description. The room smelled strongly of urine, and the place was crowded with noisy rand rude tour groups.

Almost everything was awful (well, view from the 23rd floor is nice): — as soon as you enter the room, you notice that this hotel was built for the 1980 Olympics; — for some reason you need to show to a security guy your Guest Card to get to the elevator area (I’m pretty sure you should always use correct capitalization to write the words “Guest Card”; also, it‘s just a paper wrap for your room key—the good news is that you can get a copy at the reception); — in the morning I found that breakfast that day had ended at 9:45 because of the conference at the first floor (both the Guest Card and a person who checked me in were pretty sure that breakfast is served til 10:30); — while returning to my room after that disappointment, I dropped my Guest Card after showing it to a security guy. Well, I thought, I don’t really need it, I already both had a second one and plans to check out as soon as possible, but the security guy had another opinion, so he picked up the card, ran after me and threw it at me with the immortal line “You can be a swine at your own home” (in Russian, of course, what did you think?). I have to admit I didn’t expect so much agility and accuracy from a guy who looked like he worked here since 1980s, but it turned out that all security is hired by the hotel from an external private company. 0/10, wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.