Hotel Cosmopol

Emplacement

Vieillot

It was like going back in time to a hotel from the 80s but staff really nice and fantastic location.

Beds little old fashioned but for a short stay ok.

Location, the view was great and liked the balcony and on-site restaurant.

Fairly good location by the beach, but a bit a walk to the center of town. If you'd like to travel back in time to the 80s and get a feeling for how hotels were in the Soviet Union, then this is your choice.

This hotel is a bit of a comical experience, as it is really a time travel capsule to the ambience and feel of a hotel in the Soviet Union in the 80s (I did stay at a hotel in then-Leningrad in 1986 and got a strong sense of deja vu). The scratched wooden reception desk with lots of two-ring paper binders in shelves behind it; the creaky double-door elevator (one hinged and the other sliding); the fluorescent-light corridors; the mechanical door locks with huge keys and a weight attached to them; the spartan room that reminds one of a university dormitory many decades ago. The breakfast saloon where a big group of guests assembles outside at 8:00 in the morning as they open the doors and everybody scrambles inside to find a table, draped with a violet table-cloth. The primitive buffet that again reminds one of a dormitory. Etc., etc. This is quite an experience and as such might even be appealing to some travelers, as long as they approach it with an open mind.