Tosca, Iasi

Advantages: Clean and tidy. Good service.
Disadvantages: Lift not available from entrance floor.

...The quality of a hotel can enhance a holiday or just as easily detract from its enjoyment. Often when choosing a hotel, we are guided by details in a holiday brochure or the information on the Internet only. For our trip to Prague, that is exactly the situation we found ourselves in. Prague has a plethora of hotels to choose from. We spent quite some time scanning the hotels available on the net. We wanted somewhere near enough to the town center for convenience but far enough away to ensure a quiet night. And of course, the name had to be appealing!! We settled on the Tosca. The blurb stated that the “Hotel Tosca Prague is conveniently situated inside Prague district in the quiet street near Wenceslas Place- the centre of Prague life - takes only 10 minute walk from here.” The hotel offers an airport collection service. When we... Read review

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Advantages: Choice of accommodation, bargain price, lovely setting
Disadvantages: Scary dogs in neighbourhood

...When you're on the road for a while, you will from time to time, find yourself having to stay in a place for no other reason than you can't get any further that day. Iasi, a gloomy industrial town in northern Romania was such a port of call for me - twice, on Saturday nights a week apart. Such is the lack of decent but cheap hotels in Iasi that I ended up staying both times in an overpriced place I wouldn't have bothered with any other time. This preamble is my way of explaining that by the time I got to Brasov, I wanted to stay somewhere with a little more character, something more of my own choosing than simply the best of a bad lot. In Brasov I would have been spoilt for choice were it not for the fact that I had read about Pensiune Ionescu in my Lonely Planet and had my heart set on staying there. We managed to fend off hordes... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap , friendly , good weather
Disadvantages: language, most older people don't speak english, poverty in areas- watch out fot beggers

.... That was such a relaxing break. Besides these well-defined tourist areas, in Romania there are many other tourist centres, towns and spas. They include Iasi (the former capital of Moldavia), Cluj-Napoca (i think this close to the mediaeval Transylvania), Timisoara this is where i was living and working (the multiethnic and multicultural metropolis of the Banat), Târgoviste (the princely residence of Wallachia, before Bucharest replaced it)- that phrase was how it was described, i would describe it as a city on the border of europe that is has a large young and modern population , this city is bordered close to Arad (this city is directly on the borders of Hungary)and is within close driving distance to Serbia. this town is host to sereral univercitys. Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara etc. I have only been to Brasov on work related activites , but i believe has... Read review

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