Hotel Yubileiny

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.

We were in the conference-hall "Grand",there is cozy, nicely, you can work without any distractions,then had lunch at the restaurant there liked less, it was cold, not friendly waiters,terrible coleslaw, sliced very large,filling almost there, hard, but the soup and main course with fish pleased. In General, there is not very bad.

ordered for znakomo, wanted 100% payment to make a call from the States at 3 a.m. Minsk time, immediately raised
the phone on the reception night, at 9 am I called the reservation Department - raised immediately; email is also responded immediately;
could make the Deposit by completing an authorization form and sending copies of driver's license and cards, as well hotel sent me a confirmation of withdrawal from the card and pay.
All done during the day. Claims service, very professional, clearly.

The friendly reception. Smiling staff.
Clean room with large bed, TV, air conditioning and a refrigerator. In the fridge, beer, vodka, crisps and nuts.
Here is the only room on the eighth floor of the corridor one door separates. And when at two in the morning somewhere on the floor began to say goodbye, he woke up. And said goodbye to noisy and long :(