Street Address: Along Tverskaya - Moscow, Russia

Location: Very Good.

Nearest Metro: Mayakovskaya

Staff Speaks English? I really don't think so.

Would I Stay Here? No.

* I was unimpressed with the Peking Hotel's hospitality *

My visit to the Peking was a disappointment. They have such an interesting, regal building. It gave me high expectations. Inside I quickly realized I was in an unfriendly place.

At the front desk, they have a soviet mentality. "Hey desk ladies, I'm real sorry I interrupted your television show!"

Would they show me any rooms? Of course not. I'd have to come back on Monday and talk with the administrator. I'm familiar with this blow off technique, and I don't bother coming back to these places. It's a shame. Three lazy people watching TV and nobody wanted to break away from the set and show me some rooms.

The hotel was created in 1956. Just three floors of this large building have hotel rooms. They told me a renovation is underway. The lobby area had been recently renovated. The fish tank behind the lobby desk was perfectly clean. I liked to see that. They said their renovated floor has air conditioned rooms. Rooms are currently priced between 1800 and 7500 rubles.

While looking around on the ground floor I began to enter an oriental-themed restaurant and a goon doorman stepped immediately in front of me so that there was almost chest to chest contact. That takes a lot of balls to do that to me. The problem in his mind was that I still had my coat on. (So what! The restaurant was empty!) That confrontation was inappropriate, unacceptable and rude. I'm very unimpressed with the hospitality at the Hotel Peking. This hotel needs new management. Thumbs down.

Pervomayskaya Hotel     K    +7 (095) 464-4995 (fax/phone)

Street Address: Nizhnyaya Pervomayskaya ulitsa 77 - Moscow Region

Location: Poor

Nearest Metro: Pervomayskaya, about a mile away (25 minute walk)

Staff Speaks English: Some, not much.

Would I Stay Here? This is the eastern suburbs. As a last resort I would stay here.

* They Say They Have Rooms In The Summer *

Recently renovated rooms are not bad. They have 90 rooms and the hotel is owned by an institution. Their slowest time is the summer and they say they always have rooms available in the summer, so if you can't find a room - here you go. The hotel is located in a very big residential area. All I see are tall apartment buildings. I saw no shopping areas or anything besides apartments. It seems like a nice area. My assistant Tatiana told me it smelled in the hotel. I didn't notice it. She also said she wouldn't feel safe there.

This hotel is very far from the center of the city. It is a last resort hotel for those who cannot find a room in the summer.

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