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I stayed in the Hotel Saraj in Sarajevo in November 2000. It’s situated on the hill but close to the city centre, so you would expect great views in this mountainous country… and the view from our room was quite pretty, it was beginning to snow at the time so we could admire those magnificent white-greyish mountains and also see a bit of the Old Town. But the restaurant was overlooking a cemetery!! I must admit, the breakfast was good, we had a choice of cooked or cold breakfast, there was plenty of fruit, but I used to lose my appetite at the site of that cemetery… And it set me thinking about that bloody war they had just a few years before… Why did they build the summer terrace facing the cemetery? God knows… The Balkans never fail to surprise me.
The furnishings in the room were quite simple, we had satellite TV, a telephone. The bathroom was more or less clean.
The hotel also had a sauna and a hairdresser’s – but we didn’t use it.
The staff speak decent English. I am not sure if they accepted cards there, but I remember we paid cash –Deutsche Marks at the time….
I also used to laugh at the name of the hotel – Saraj, because in Russian saraj means a shed, but I am sure in Bosnian it would mean something like “a resident of Sarajevo”, that type of thing…
On the whole, the hotel is OK but probably a bit expensive for what it is… So next time we came to Sarajevo, we rented a flat.. and we liked it much more…
----------- The hotel has a website http://www.hotelsaraj.com/en/index.htm, their address is
Nevjestina 5 Sarajevo 71 000 Bosna i Hercegovina tel: + 387 71 447 703, 447 704, 538 460 fax: +387 71 472 691 e-mail: info@hotelsaraj.com
And I think it cost us 70 pounds (twin room).
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