Flammie on hotels
This is a listing of hotels I have visited and reviewed and short note on whether I’d go again. Many of the hotels are chain hotels which tend to be approx. same quality everywhere in the world, here’s a short overview:
- Discount hotels: no extras, no breakfasts, checkin machine or minimal service, cheap and good quality: B&B Hotels, Ibis budget, A&O Hostels, Omena (Finland), Forenom…
- Basic to high brands: Checkin service, breakfast, sometimes pools and gyms etc., doable if cheap: Ibis, Holiday Inn, Scandic, Comfort Xpress, Mercure, Smarthotel, …
The deciding factors in these chains is more the walking distance / public transport combined with price than anything else, the rooms are always the same and it’s good enough for me for all of these chains.
München (Munich)
- B&B München city west, ok, bit far
Praha (Prague)
- B&B Prague City, great and
Istanbul
- Cihangir palace, avoid, problems with electricity and everythings
Stockholm
- Comfort Xpress Stockholm Central, very central, rooms are ridiculously tiny
- Hotell Skeppsbron, cheap, at the edge of old town so reachable if not the best location for most tourism or bars, ok-ish
Budapest
Currently I’d recommend renting an apartment (not airbnb or booking.com) if possible, is often cheaper and nicer.
- Golden Park, maybe avoid, cheap and central but really run down
Las Vegas
Any casino on strip or Fremont street should be just fine.
- ~~Hard Rock Casino was nice, off strip and cheap, but discontinued
Uttrecht
- Hello B&B was a traditional B&B I had to use because it was only thing cheap enough for university’s budget, nice people though
Helsinki
- Hotel Arthur is terribly run-down and expensive but right next to linguistics at the University
Варна (Varna)
- Belle Epoque, avoid, cheap but not good
Lisbon
- Hotel Star Inn at airport, nice airport hotel, walkable
Stuttgart
- Hotel Stern, cheap and central-ish, okay
Bergen
- Magic Hotel Solheimsviken, cheap and nice hotel, few tram stops or long walk from city centre
- Scandic Kokstad, airport hotel, not walkable and a bit of walk after tram as well
Gdańsk
- Sleep&Fly, airport hotel, walkable and cheap, perfect for wizzair–ryanair layovers
Miami
- Ocean Spray, short walk from beach and ok, probably better than the most beach front hotels
Göteborg (Gothenburg)
- PH Opera, cheap but surprisingly rundown and small rooms for what tries to be higher end hotel, near railway station
Amsterdam
- Quentin Arrive, cheap, small rooms but central
Stansted
- Jolly Brewers, bar and few rooms, in a town 1 train stop or local bus from the airport, highly recommend over airport hotels
Bodø
- Smarthotel, central and cheap
Toronto
- Queens Hotel Queens West, cheap, very basic but located by the tram in hipstery neighbourhood
Milano
- Zebra Hostel, very hostel, very mid, but at least back in the days Milano didn’t used to have much options
Berlin
- ibis budget Berlin Ost, avoid, very far and not very good at all
Zürich
- ibis-budget-Zurich-Airport, cheap and near, few stops on tram or walking distance
Barcelona
- ibis Barcelona Aeropuerto Viladecans, airport hotel but a bit far and not very suitable for layovers
Wien
- A&O Wien Stadthalle, bit off centre but good and cheap
Санкт петербург (St. Petersburg)
- Nevsky, nice and cheap and central