Garni Hotel Dash

Ruhiges Hotel etwas abgelegen am Stadtrand.

Frühstück - alle Speisen kalt, keine Butter, kein frisches Obst (grüne Äpfel sonst nichts). Spa besteht aus kleinem Pool - keine Sauna usw. Vieles sieht renovierungsbedürftig aus. In Zimmern striktes Rauchverbot (was sehr gut ist) aber der Barbereich ist dann eine Raucherhöhle und dadurch stinkt es im Hotel überall nach kaltem Rauch.

Clean room and bathroom. uLarge bed.

Broken electrical sockets, wobbly, dangerous. Sauna room not working.

This was on an unplanned leg of our 2 month trip and circumstances required that we pay by credit card. That meant booking a hotel rather than a private.aparrtment. plus it had to be one with parking. This was the most affordable hotel that got us close to the city center and it looked like it had character (and it did!). As such, it exceeded our expectations. Breakfast was great, the hotel staff were excessively helpful, the location worked out well (3 km up/down a main street from city center) and it had an adjacent parking lot. Most available hotels in the Navi Sad didn't have parking and the boutique hotels with character were excessively expensive, far from the center or difficult to get to with a car.

The main issue was the uncomfortable bed. This is a common complaint for most of our Balkans trip so far. It seems that people in the Balkans have not discovered the joy of a good mattress with memory foam topping on a box spring base. Only one accommodation had one this whole trip. Even the expensive hotel and spa we had splurged on had a cheap thin mattress. We needed a massage the next day. The other complaint, albeit trivial, was the low quality workmanship on the maintenance. It seemed like the common repairs were done by a DIY not-so-handy-man. The room would have been more pleasant if there were t unfilled holes in the walls with rusty abandoned pipes sticking out, sloppy caulking and doors that didn't close right. This is another common complaint in the Balkans for the private apartments and aiirbnb's we've stayed in. There seems to be a low expectation of quality workmanship so it's not just the Dash Hotel. It's embedded in the culture. I guess I could reframe this complaint as cultural immersion.

Not noisy and quite clean.

Outdated hotel in general, quite expensive for such quality of room, etc. but the main thing - not qualitative breakfast (food seemed to be spoiled), not tasty. This hotel should be renovated or twice cheaper than now. Don’t recommend it for the stay.