Zimbru Hotel

Definitely had character! Worked out well for one night before an early flight, and the hotel was very considerate about reserving a taxi for us. They also gave us a choice of two rooms, leaving both rooms' keys with the stadium security guard who let us into the hotel and took our payment. I suspect they could because there was literally no one else staying in the entire hotel.

It was creepy: my mother angled a chair under the doorknob, and kept commenting that it was like the start to a horror movie. There was no one else in the hotel, either guest or worker, and it didn't seem as though anyone had stayed there for quite a while. After being told that their card machine was down and that was why we had to pay in cash, we were wondering whether the hotel owners even know that the hotel is on booking, or whether the cleaning staff had a side hustle going with the stadium guard. The room had several weird large flying beetle bugs, but the shower worked, so it was fine.

The personnel is nice, friendly and helpful, they helped us printing out our boarding passes for our flights, and called taxi for our transfer to the airport, thanks a lot! Good location, near to the Chişinău International Airport(KIV) and it takes about 25-30 min drive on the taxi, we payed 85 MDL for the taxi, which is around $5. Our room was clean and spacious, with king size bed, with comfortable mattress, with private restroom and shower, bed lines and towels was clean. Good for one or two nights stay.

On our stay on the stadium was a soccer team training untill 23 o’clock or so, which was disturbing us, making a lot of loud noise. On the windows they didn't have a mosquito net screen and camara bloodsuckers tormented us almost all night. Also after 23:00 or so in our room we didn’t have a hot water in the shower, probably because they have a limited hours of hot water or we are not really sure why, but we was not able to take a shower at that time, we has ben waited (hot water) around 5-10 minutes, but it never came thru.

The location to the KIV - Chişinău airport is good, takes 25 - 30 minutes on the taxi, cost 85-100 MDL ($5 US dollars), my room and bed was just normal.

After some evening or night hours no hot water in the shower, no Wi-Fi, cash only.