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 | Sofitel: A fine **** Hotel
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The Sofitel Hotel Bucharest facing a lake surrounded by vast woods, is located on the Free Press Square, in the heart of the World Trade Center, halfway between the airport and the city centre. This international business hotel is ideally located for the both the business and leisure traveller.
It is easy to take comfort for granted at the Hotel Sofitel where each of the 203 room has individually controlled air conditioning, direct dial telephone, satellite TV, mini-bar, and 24 hour room service. Another perfect setting to relax in is our fitness center with both indoor and outdoor swimming pools, sauna, massage service, aerobics and various fitness equipment. We also provide a beauty salon, laundry, car park, car rental, a flower shop, and an art gallery. Sofitel has non-smoking rooms available upon request.
The classic restaurant, with a seating capacity of 350, welcomes you to its pleasant atmosphere and high quality service where our world renowned chefs prepare you their delicious specialties. Please also visit the American breakfast saloon, the snack bar, the coffee shop and the bar which should satisfy all of your needs.
Businnes Center : the World Trade Center is within the same complex directly linked from the hotel lobby. WTC offers business people and individual Travellers the comfort and quality they need. The convention center has 6 receptions rooms including 2 with modular design. Also, a 300 seat amphitheater with facilities for interpretation, video projection and PA system is available for meetings and conventions of your organizations.
Room facilities include: private bathroom, regular bathtub, hair dryer, minibar, cable TV, air conditioning, smoke detector.
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| Sofitel: Excellent hotel, peripheral location
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Sofitel Bucharest
10 Montreal Square
Bucharest, Romania
Phone 40-2131-83000
Fax 40-2131-62550
This superior business class hotel deserves 5 stars (rumor has it that it has only 4 stars because it lacks a swimming pool). It is located on the northwest edge of the city next to the trade and business fairgrounds, about a km from the Free Press Palace on the road to the airport. This may be why most guests are in business suits or airline uniforms. There is a pleasant large park nearby, and the open air museum (reconstructed villages) is only a few km away.
The one downside to the location on the edge of town is that public transportation in Bucharest is problematic. Buses and subways have separate tickets, and there is no combined ticket or day pass for tourists. One must take the #330 bus (whose terminus is outside the hotel) to the Aviator metro station, and then the subway downtown. Metro stations are quite far apart -- Bucharest is not a pedestrian friendly city. Taxis are available, but rush hour can be gridlock. Friends who tried to taxi to the opera (on the southwest edge of town near the monstrous Parliament building) gave up halfway and took the metro and bus back to the hotel.
The rooms are elegant with superior bedding (pillow top mattress, ultra fine sheets) and bath amenities (fluffy towels, soaps from Paris). The only complaint is that my room was stuffy (windows are sealed) and overheated the first night (there is a thermostat, but it has been polished so often that it was illegible). The air conditioning worked the second night (someone else must have complained).
The food is excellent, with a continental touch. The buffet breakfast is not lavish, but has excellent choices. A catered dinner for our group of 40 was far better than average for such meals.
I did not use the business services or fitness center, but I appreciated the free internet terminals in a room off the lobby.
This is a world class hotel -- the best I experienced in the Balkans, and equal to any superior business hotel in western Europe. Because I toured with a pre-paid package, I cannot comment on prices or value for money. Theme: HotelDirections: Near trade fairgrounds on way to airport
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