Hotel Marrol's, Bratislava

Advantages: Central to the town and overlooking the Danube.
Disadvantages: A bit expensive. The sauna and pool are closed until december 2007.

...The Hotel danube in Bratislava , overlooking the beautiful blue river danube ,or donau, as it is known in Germany. It is spacious and scrupulously clean .The staff are friendly and professional with an excellent command of the English language.It has a swimming pool and gym facilities although these are currently closed for renovation until december 2007. There is an excellent restaurant, conference rooms and they have a massive grand piano in the foyer with a resident musician.Luxury soaps, body lotion, shampoos are provided and there is a safe in each room , also, an essential item, a hair dryer. There is covered parking accessed with a card. It is situated right in the heart of the town which is buzzing with vitality and has an air of euphoria after the years of communist oppression. Bratislava itself is emerging from the shadows... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, reasonably cheerful, one of the city's better hotels
Disadvantages: Eastern Europe and Western Europe still differ a lot

...I went to visit Slovakia for a short break when I was living in Vienna, spending 3 nights in Bratislava, staying at the Hotel Turist (read on to see why the op’s called Hotel Filmstar). I was in quite a good mood when I arrived as my taxi had only ended up costing me 50p more than the hotel had said it should – quite an achievement I thought considering I don’t speak a word of Slovakian. The first thing I realized when I arrived, though, is that websites can lie. You probably knew this already, but I was a naive little teenager at the time and I thought that if a website said something, then it must be true. The following quotes come from their website ( www.turist.sk/ ). “Hotel Turist offers comfortable accommodation for favourable price in 99 double and triple rooms, which are equipped with bathroom, toilet... Read review

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Advantages: Relatively quiet compared to it's near neighbours Prague, Vienna and Budapest
Disadvantages: Ironically it sufferes in some respects from not being as well-visited as the above

...expensive for hotels but you can find cheaper places to the east and north east of the centre. We stayed in cheap but pleasant accommodation which is rented out by the university (open to anyone, not just students, and open through the year) about five minutes by tram away from the very centre of town. I would recommend Bratislava for a city break or in conjunction with visiting other nearby cities - perhaps those also on the Danube. I would not say that there is much to offer families, it is a city of high culture rather than one of fabricated attractions.... Read review

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