Premier Hotel Rus

The staff were friendly. The hotel was about 5 minutes from the Sportu Metro stadium, but difficult to find on the first attempt. Once you know how to get there, it's very simple though. It is at the top of a steep hill which some people may not like, but as the city of Kiev is built on 7 hills, this is something you get used to very quickly! The breakfast buffet is vast and has local, continental and cooked foods. We found the beds very uncomfortable as they were low to the ground and only had thin pillows. We had great views of the football stadium from our room which we liked. There is a large shopping mall less than 5 minutes walk away and this has a large supermarket in the basement. We had dinner in the hotel's restaurant and this was good value and tasty too. The hotel is about 20 minutes walk from Maidan (Independence Square) so was in a good location for us. You can easily get here much quicker by Metro though and any one way ticket on the Metro costs 8 in local money (about 25p) so cheap to get around from here.

I had a room on 18th floor, and the condition of the room (lamps, bed and ....), does not fit with the rest of the hotel, and the staff proposed me to change the room. Very helpfull and great staff, nice buffet breakfast, Thanks

The rooms are quaint and antiquated. The TV is not very European. Walking outside was dangerous since neither salt nor sand was not used to on the walkways. I disliked the most, the two blonde ladies sitting at the bar. They were easy on the eyes. Now the staff at the reception desk were very helpful, professional and attempted to help. Getting a train ticket at the desk was super.

Stayed here 20 and 15 years ago, still as I remembered, new owners I think, harks back to the iron curtain days, excellent location for the football overlooking the stadium from the hilltop, hoteljas loads of character, immaculately clean, bed was comfortable, everything worked, hot water, heating, heated curtain rail, safe, minibar, small room but had everything I needed, food in bar was very nice, and breakfast had pretty much everything you wanted decent taxi service to airport , my only 2 minus points would be the restaurant said we had to eat in bar area rather than in restaurant even though its supposed to be open until 11pm and we arrived at 10.15 which I did think wasn't good, but food was very nice as it came from restaurant kitchen anyway, and apart from the hotel reception girls and the lady serving in lobby bar the staff were so miserable, the security, cleaners, breakfast staff everyone,, that said it didn't spoil my stay and I would definitely stay again