Marins Park Hotel

Excellent breakfast buffet with a good view. The hotel seemed to have good facilities, such as a coffee shop and gift shop; and even a sauna - but I didn’t use this. It is only 10-15 minutes walk from the main station, which is good. The staff were helpful. Especially when I left early. More on this below.

This hotel tries to be suave, but doesn’t quite make it. They have signs in English everywhere, many of them badly translated - I don’t know if this an attempt at comedy though. When I checked in, the man checking me in was forced to speak English to me by his manager, which do appreciate; I was told wrong information about the breakfast timings, which caused me to mis-plan my day the following day. If staff are going to speak English, they need to have a better grasp of it so such mistakes are not made. There is quite a fancy restaurant attached to the hotel. The staff were good, but the food not: The drinks are tiny, and the main meal was something I’d be happy paying 300 Roubles for, not over 1000. The electric vent did not work in the toilet/shower in my room. And there was a fridge which was noisy during the night. The worst thing though: I was woken up at around 01:00 by very loud music. On looking out the window, I discovered a show being performed in the car park. This went on until around 02:00. I was not warned about this. Completely unacceptable! The next day when I complained to a member of staff about this, I was told that this show was not under the authority of the hotel, and they happen from time to time. These experiences caused me to check out a day early and find another hotel for the rest of my stay in Nizhny Novgorod. During my early checkout, the staff were helpful, and I was refunded some of my money.