General Review of Kiev Accommodation
If you want to have service in Kiev, you have to pay a lot, that is an unspoken motto of most Kiev hospitality business units. High quality hotels in Kiev are scarce, and expensive, to say the least. What do you think about half a grand for a night in a standard room. That is normal for a Premier Palace, the first five-star hotel in a renovated building at the corner of Pushkinskaya and Khmelnitskogo. This district is so busy with cars in the rush hours (and often during the workdays all the week long) that you dream of a helicopter. Well, but the roof has a nice restarant and command a picturesque panorama over the city center.
Hyatt is a grand edifice with mirrored surface on the Khmelnitskogo square, opposite Sofia Cathedral. It is a modern hotels that some guests find unrivalled among five-stars. Other may disagree with an opening of Intercontinental Hotel, with its classic luxury style, right across the Velyka Zhitomirska street.
We can also mention Opera hotel, a favorite place of diplomats and ambassadors as well as sport delegations, also labelled five star. Radisson SAS, though rich and stylish, got a few bad reviews on the Tripadvisor lately thanks to a mediocre service.
There are decent hotels from Soviet times that improved after renovations, such as Hotel Rus, President Hotel and Dnipro. You get a clean room and smiling staff for a little above a hundred a night for a standard, breakfast included.
Riviera Boutique Hotel and Podol Plaza are private smaller hotels of choice in the area of downhill Podil, with two minutes walking to Dnipro river excursions on a boat, and funicular that can bring you uphill to the old town.
As an alternative, you can rent an apartment for a few nights, and live very comfortably and privately, but with little or no service. But many travellers nowadays prefer this cheaper luxury of privacy to expensive gaudy hotels.
It is your right to choose.



