Hotel Yubileiny in Minsk

Mixed bag. The hotel.

The breakfast buffet is the best I've ever had at a hotel. All you can eat, a variety of dishes with excellent service. Staff takes your dishes right when your done but you never see them take the dishes. You look away, look back and theyre gone!

Rooms are pretty good, sheets cleaned daily. Spacious rooms with nice bathrooms.

Each floor has a mini lobby with complementary cold spring water cooler and glasses.

However. The front desk staff is often rude but security is nice (strange), clothing services are very slow and 2.50 usd or 8 byr FOR ONE PAIR OF CLOTHES!
Location is amazing right next door to a telecom, central bus stop, restaurants, and a grocery (all within a 3 min walk)
Good window view next to the river and victory park. GUM is only a few minutes away on a straight bus line.

(Video is of window view)

Hi. I am British and just got back from 3 days in Minsk where i stayed at Yubilieny. I really rate my time there, and the hotel was very good value for money. I had a cool view of the river from my room. I have no complaints. Service was good, and the room was very clean. I enjoyed watching Belarusian Tv on the rainy day. Thank you for everything. Wont forget it

Great place if you need to stay in the City for more nights and be in the middle of the city. Bus stop is in front of the hotel, shops and restaurants around. Room is ok. Clean and big enough. Eaven a single room is fine for 2 or 3 people :) Also price is good. Hope I will return soon.

A very good old style hotel in Minsk, Recommended

I received a question to write a review about my living at Yubileiny hotel, between 9-13 September 2017.

For me Yubileiny Hotel is 100 % retro, 100% Soviet architecture internal environment style and I like it, I really like it!
It’s solid, It’s wood, it’s stone, it’s concrete and wall to wall carpets and it’s well kept and no scratches. For example the table in wood in my room with the carved hotel logotype, covered with glass - for me its wonderful and without scratches -
The elevators from the Finnish company KONE, delivered 1983 and still in good shape, last time I saw this elevators was 2014 at Cosmos Hotel Chisinau.
This hotel is so retro so I wondered for myself if the rooms could be wired - but I smiled for myself because yesterday has passed.
I lived at Yubileiny Hotel exactly ten years ago and nothing had really happened, external/internal with some exceptions, and this is the reason Yubileiny hotel attract that category of tourists as I belong to.

The room wasn't large, but it’s well cleaned, WiFi works well and ladies who clean even delivered me hot water for my proteindrinks and coffee. Breakfast was okey, I get what I wanted, but the coffee could be better.
I smalltalked with a middle age woman who work in the Reception. I told her about my impressions of Minsk – so she told me that you must come back next year. I realized that she liked my way of answer; - it’s more possible, then impossible!

For me, as a jogger, this hotel is perfect; - out of the main exit, cross the avenue and start jogging along the river on perfect joggingtracks, cross the river their you like and return on the opposite side. Then cross the river again and back to the shower at he hotel – can’t be better.
Yubileiny hotel could increased/boost their value for the guest if they could borrow bikes from the hotel, it’s common in a lots of hotel I use in western Europe. Minsk is flat city and biking is not a problem in Minsk.
The location is perfect, close to main attraction – restaurants, the opera, museum and more – you choose.

In one way I get disappointed, the day I arrived the restaurant was reserved for wedding, so they couldn't offer me dinner – I really get surprised that they couldn't solve that problem in the casino, bar or somewhere else.
The nearby restaurants had probably excellent food, but their staff had huge lack of knowledge in English, otherwise I tried their service.