Hotel Royal Botanic in Lublin

Fine hotel actually right next to the highway, nice rooms and a really great breakfast. A small minus - the wifi didn't work with my mac and that usually means there is malware in the system (which they have put there on purpose to "profile" you)

Ok, I stayed here from 20th April until 28th April. Booked a double room (always good extra space!) and having flown into Warsaw and then rented a car to drive the 2 hour drive to Lublin, I arrived around 2pm to check in. The hotel is set in lovely grounds with a huge garden and places to walk and admire nature. You can also eat outside and there is plenty of free parking at the hotel too. My room was on the second floor and was neat and tidy and clean, although the furnishings are outdated and could do with upgrading. Hotel staff were polite and spoke English - except the cleaners, who, when I wanted another pillow, did not understand - but we sorted it out. They were very friendly. On the whole, the staff are very polite but don't smile that much. But if you engage with them, they open up a bit. The room had a bottle of water, flat screen TV, (channels are a bit limited), large bathroom with a good shower (hot water each morning was fine) and minimal toiletries, so bring your own! No robes or slippers either but there is a hair dryer. I stayed 7 nights and also ate at the hotel too, as well as elsewhere. Breakfast is a buffet, available from 7am until 10am, with quite an extensive variety of food, but it does not change much. Dinner is available from 4pm until 8pm after which the Chef goes home. There is a bar too. Note that as in most places now, staff are minimal so the bar girl probably serves the dinner and also attends the Reception when needed. Overall, I liked the hotel and would stay there again, even though I am used to more extensive facilities. Pros - Wonderful gardens, small but good food menu, rooms are comfortable and very clean and the hotel is mostly quiet. Free WiFi is also good. Cons - No room service, no robes or extensive toiletries - as found in other hotels. Also they have a pair of McCaw birds in the hotel, living in a cage about 10 times smaller than it should be - a bit cruel. And when they shout it's like listening to a Dinosaur! Be ready for it to happen!! Serving food only between 4pm and 8pm is not good. The road leading up to the hotel from the main highway, is not in the best condition. Drive slowly to take it easy on your tyres. One big issue for me - there was NO EMERGENCY INSTRUCTION NOTICE IN THE ROOM! So if we needed to evacuate in case of fire for instance, no instructions are provided. (I later noticed some instructions on a wall on the ground floor, but these were in Polish. This hotel has international guests and so needs these instructions on the back door of each room - and in Polish, English, German and French too!. Overall, my stay was very acceptable. Once I got used to the screams of the McCaws, it was fine. I walked in the grounds, had a satisfactory breakfast and ate a very good Pizza for dinner from the Bar Menu. Room cleaning was excellent and the cleaning girls are very helpful if you need anything. I must also give thanks to the lady

Excellent service, very polite staff. Quiet and peaceful neighbourhood.

Clean, quiet and very comfortable.
What did not work for me is the lack of the bathroom is basic, shampoo and shower gel. In sink and under the shower, only soap. For this you for Breakfast (modest but very nice) probably misunderstood the duty of cleaning after guests from the table. Get up with something for the buffet can result in the need to offer himself a second time, everybody ;-). The hotel needs to work more on passing, which, at a fairly high level of hotel this is not acceptable. You need to look for streets between houses jednorodzinnymi or to enter in these tracks that creates the impression that jump out of them the devil and say,"good night."