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 | Reval Hotel Olumpia: Nice hotel, good location
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Reval Hotel Olümpia is situated a ten-minute walk or so from the Old Town of Tallinn, near the Stockmann shopping centre. I stayed at Hotel Olümpia in July 2006, during a weekend trip to Tallinn.
This is a large (390 rooms) chain hotel - which offers comfortable, if rather impersonal, accommodation. Non-smoking rooms are available.
We had booked a standard twin room, which was quite small, but comfortable. No bathtub, and the bathroom seemed quite dated. (Pics 4 and 5 show the standard room.) Wireless internet connection is available throughout the hotel - but we needed a cable LAN connection, and as this wasn't available in the standard rooms we upgraded to a Deluxe room.
The Deluxe room was simply excellent - and a huge change from the standard rooms, which were quite ok and definitely comfortable enough but nothing special. The Deluxe rooms are huge, with two *large* beds, and a seating area with a sofa, chair and table. There was a decent-sized work desk, and a *great* bathroom with a large bathtub, two sinks and lots of space. Bathrobes and (much) nicer toiletries were other pleasant extras - as well as the *perfect* view of the Old Town.
A nice buffet breakfast is served in the Senso restaurant.
Price for a standard double room usually ca 100 euro, a deluxe room ca 150 euro.
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| Reval Hotel Olumpia: Very tall tower...........
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I didn't book this hotel. I booked the Reval Express hotel by the port, and had an email confirming the booking a couple of days before I arrived. So I wasn't best pleased to be told that they had 'over-booked' and I had to go to the Olympia.
The Olympia is a good 10 minutes walk from the edge of the Old Town, and there is no convenient public transport. There are always taxis, of course.
It was built in the 1980s, has 20+ floors with a swimming pool at the top (shades of 'Towering Inferno'), beauty salon, dentist (!!), nightclub, 'pub', cafe etc.
Very clean, whizzy lifts, comfortable beds, efficient service.......all the usual things you'd expect from a hotel which mainly caters for large tour groups and business conferences.
Good range of breakfast foods: hot foods, cold foods, cereals, bread etc etc. Coffee from a machine, drinkable but nothing special. Beware: if there are several tour groups at breakfast you will have to fight your way through the throng!
Hmm.........does having the words of 'Imagine' engraved on the bedroom mirror count?
The cafe is very good, I have to say. It serves salads and 'smoothies' and sandwiches and cakes at very reasonable prices. In fact, I ate there most nights (it's open till 11pm): salad and coffee for less than 5GBP (free bread if you ask).
If you like modern, huge, 4* star hotels (they've had a range of famous guests, from Hilary Clinton to David Copperfield) then this will suit you.
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