Guest User
October 17, 2023
This hotel has some very good points - an excellent location, terrific view of the cathedral directly opposite, pleasant staff, and a rooftop pool. Also a facility to connect music on one’s phone by Bluetooth to good overhead speakers in the bedroom. We did not use the restaurant so cannot comment on that. However, be very wary of booking this place if your main criterion is not that the hotel be ‘cool’. The decor of the common parts - reception, stairs, corridors- is almost unremittingly black,- black walls, grey-flecked black marble stairs, black ceilings - with a couple of floor-length scarlet curtains screening off some areas at floor level and a gold-toned artwork hanging on one wall of each of the three floors. The shower rooms within the bedrooms are also predominantly black , apart from the toilet, the mirror, taps and towels. We found this very depressing and claustrophobic. The bedroom was also very disappointing. Although we had booked a ‘junior suite’ it was one of the smallest hotel rooms we have ever stayed in - excluding the shower room , it was c. 3metres by c.4metres. There was no wardrobe, just some open shelving on one wall. One has to use an electronic control pad to operate lights, curtains, aircon and the aforementioned Bluetooth . Finally, there was an unpleasant smell in the room which we suspect came from the air con. When we reported this, a very pleasant member of staff came to our room, agreed that not only did the room smell unpleasant but so did the corridor outside, and said she would try to get it sorted out. Unfortunately the smell persisted. The rooftop pool was also tiny -about the same dimensions as the bedroom and only 1 metre deep- and there were only 3 loungers to be shared by all guests. While the view of the cathedral from the rooftop is admittedly fantastic, there is an almost constant racket of heavily-amplified guitar music from buskers in the square below. In sum, if you’re looking for somewhere hip and cool, this may be the perfect place for you, but if this is not your priority, stay away!