Izmailovo Complex Gamma-Delta Moscow

a nice experince

We stay 5 nights in Izmailovo Gamma in September. Our room was nice and clean enough. It was on the 21th floor with a very nice view of Moscow city.
However it is a little far from the city center but as the metro station is right in front of the hotel, you don’t feel the distance.
Another advantage of this hotel is the “izmailovo market” near it, Which includes a museum and very nice colorful architecture in addition to the souvenir shops?

Unique Quality: you can find everything you require easily. there are lots of resy=turants, shops, pool, sauna, ... in the complex.
and one of the other important points is the tv room with cold and boiling water(for tea or coffee) and iron room in every floor that you can use whenever you want.

Week of FUN

Huge hotel complex

The Izmailovo Gamma-Delta was built in 1979 for the Olympics in Moscow in 1980. It is located in the Izmailovo suburb of Moscow, a 15-20 minutes journey by Metro from the centre of Moscow. The Metro station in Izmailovo is located only a short walk from the hotel.

The room was clean and had a very nice view of the Izmailovo Park, but it was a little out of date - and the beds were very short! Maybe we had one of the rooms supposed for small female gymnasts during the 1980 Olympics? The staff was friendly and helpful, they helped us with visa registration and answered all our questions about getting around in Moscow.

The hotel is part of a large complex that includes several restaurants, shops, nightclub etc. We had dinner one night at one of the restaurants, and it was fine. We stayed two nights at the hotel, and had – besides the short beds - no problems at all.

• Opinion of Price: N/A

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As rooms are fairly inexpensive try First class

I liked this hotel. As rooms were inexpensive i ve taken First Class Double room which still was two times cheaper than standard room in SAS or similar. It was newly furnished room with everything i needed. I liked the electronic security system in hotel as only guys with room keys from their floor can enter the floor. Generally i like hotels that are big, middle priced and located a little bit aside from the center. That makes them cozy place to stay while you're doing your sneaky tourist things :).

Unique Quality: Huge.

Dingy...

We stayed here for 5 nights in Dec 06. It is an enormous hotel as it originally was the accom for the athletes competing at the 1980 Olympic Games. It is used by lots of tour groups because of its size but also has lots of locals who are holidaying or working in Moscow. I'll start with the good bits: location - near a train station and the markets, facilities - 24hr internet, post office, lots of little shop etc. Terrible bits - we had unrenovated rooms that were awful!! The bathroom (esp the toilet) was horrendous, the two single beds were tiny - my husband hung of the sides and the two chairs were mouldy! There is a prostitution ring running out of the lobby - you will easily pick the madams and the postitutes sitting the lobby. I would only recommend the Turkish restaurant to eat in - we tried two others inclusing the Golf cafe and wouldn't go back.

very rude people at reception

i was helping one of my friends to check in in the hotel-it took more than 1 hour to do it and not because there were too many people going through same procedure-women at reception are very slow, not nicely talking, no sign of smile..hopefuly foreign people mostly dont understand what they say, to summarise-it reminded me of old soviet union times service..:(
but as i know accomodation is not too bad and the price not too high, so maybe you could close your eyes at such inconvinience..

AN OK HOTEL

The Izmailovo hotel is the building that was constructed for the Olympics that 1/2 that world boycoted. Some for the features have not been upgraded since, but the hotel itself is fine.

I did not experiance the "COCA COLA" water that others have, But I will say that the attitude of the counter staff could well be improved. Having said that, I have read that in Russia many people have never experianced customer service so do obviously not know how to deliver it.

The Breakfast is HUGE, and enjoyable, (russian coffee does take a little time to get used to) but the location although out of the city, given the proximity and frequence of the metro is no hassle at all

• Opinion of Price: less expensive than average

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Cheap Hotel Complex

Actually, I stayed at the Izmailova Delta building, which is next to the Gamma building. Huge complex, which has nightclub, bowling, billiards, casino, gym, restaurants, etc. Price was not that great, since we went through a booking agency...think I paid $100 a night. Took 3 hours to check-in, since they couldn't find my reservation number. Thank God, they finally figured it out. You would think they would be able to pull it up using my name...but no...welcome to Russia!!! Good location, only if you want to be close to the huge Izmailove Flea Market. Best place to haggle for Russian gifts. Otherwise, going to clubs/restaurant in Moscow at night will require a long taxi ride back. Is right next to a subway stop and the subway system is great, once you figure out the cyrillic language. Found it also amusing that hotel security will gladly be your pimp and provide you with a "nice" Russian girl and will gladly make arrangements for her to come up to your room. Moscow doesn't have too many affordable hotel rooms, so I guess the Izmailova Delta/Gamma complex is not too bad for the price.

russian hotel....

nice hotle but a bit expensive.. 2000 rubles a night nice buiding and quite place and perfect view of city with lake in front..