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Str.Unirii, Nr.3, 510009 Alba Iulia, Romania

#15 of 15 hotels in Alba Iulia

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Review Score

Based on 413 hotel reviews

7.2

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    7.2

  • Comfort

    7.0

  • Location

    8.9

  • Facilities

    6.7

  • Staff

    8.0

  • Value for money

    7.2

  • Free Wifi

    7.8

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  • Reviewed: June 23, 2021

    6.0
    Fair option for the right money.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Family Junior Suite
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Old hotel, old facilities, no hot water in one of the bathrooms ( we had an apartament with 2 bathrooms as we were 4 pax)

    Location was great, good staff.

    Stayed in June 2021

  • Reviewed: June 22, 2021

    6.0
    I won't stay here again for a while
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • King Suite with AC
    • Stayed 2 nights

    Where to start...I will just summarize the top items that influenced my family's staying: 1. Rooms - need a total reshape. Incomplete and sticky carpets, missing doors and broken curtains are the first contact you have with your room. 2. Customer service - staff isn't too friendly 3. Restaurant food - basic breakfast available at the hotel restaurant and included in the price. This wouldn't be a problem, but in one morning my entire family got sick from the morning food. Pictures on booking look great, at the location there is a different story.

    The hotel is placed in the very center of Alba Iulia, at 2 min walk to the city's citadel. Hotel has parking lots available for the guests. Being near city citadel that also offers you access to different restaurants where you could eat your meal and also great sight seeing.

    Stayed in June 2021

  • Reviewed: June 11, 2021

    8.0
    Very Good
    • Business trip
    • Family with young children
    • Budget Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The bathroom is small and should insist more on cleanliness.

    Good value. The hotel is near the historical city center, the breakfast is good and the price is attractive.

    Stayed in June 2021

  • Reviewed: June 8, 2024

    4.0
    Not worth it
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The hotel is old,the bathroom is old and so is the carpet,and also there is mold on the carpet.

    The only thing that I liked was the entrance,it looks very expensive but it becomes a whole new place when you get on the rooms hallway and also the bed,it was really comfy but if u are taller it won't be a nice experience.

    Stayed in June 2024

  • Reviewed: May 10, 2024

    5.0
    It's a pity that this beautifully located hotel looks like 100 years ago and not in a good way.
    • Business trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    The hotel and the room overall are not renovated and not in good condition.

    The hotel has a good location.

    Stayed in April 2024

  • Reviewed: January 17, 2024

    4.0
    Disappointing
    • Business trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights

    It started badly 2 days before the check-in day when I received an e-mail with the information that breakfast is canceled (because the restaurant is under renovation). I literally froze from the cold (it's not at all right that in January with temperatures of -7-8 degrees Celsius, unless you periodically and systematically turn off the heat). The liquid soap dispenser in the bathroom didn't work even though it looked like there was some liquid in it. Not even the trash was taken from the room between the 2 days of accommodation.

    Comfortable bed, OK TV and private parking.

    Stayed in January 2024

  • Reviewed: January 14, 2024

    5.0
    Back in the communism era.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The location is 40years back in the past. The beds also have minimum 40 years old. The carpet is old, and you will find a vintage radiator. The bathroom whas not clean.

    The view is grate.

    Stayed in December 2023

  • Reviewed: December 29, 2023

    5.0
    Fair
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Double Room With AC
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The mattress wad completely collapsed. I kept rolling off at night. The furnishings are very old and need replacing. Not really 3 star . More like 1 or 2.

    Very kind attentive receptionist. Kind staff in the restaurant too.

    Stayed in December 2023

  • Reviewed: October 23, 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Budget Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    All has been great

    Liked everything, great morning breakfast

    Stayed in October 2023

  • Reviewed: October 6, 2023

    5.0
    Fair
    • Business trip
    • Group
    • Twin Room
    • Stayed 2 nights

    the bathroom is horrible, with mold, the tub is yellow with dirt, there was a black streak of dirt under the sink, the smell was dark, hard to bear, horrible.

    It was ok, the coffee was bad.

    Stayed in October 2023

  • Reviewed: September 19, 2023

    1.0
    No AC in the rooms, we literaly melted in the summer, really bad smell on the top floor rooms, very old and dirty carpet
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    There was nothing to like about the property!

    The location was ok

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 25, 2023

    5.0
    owners need to improve the conditions asap
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room With AC
    • Stayed 1 night

    Is a pity that this hotel is kept without improvements for so many years. Is practically the same as was built in 80's. The parking place is small and overcrowd all the time, I was needed to keep my car in a parking nearby and send periodically SMS's to pay ... The rooms are small and windows wasn't cleaned from some time. Bed's are not comfortable at all and the bathroom is ridiculously small ... Anyhow, the hotel was almost full capacity occupied, so the owners shall have the possibility to renovate it ...

    the hotel location is great, just the city historical Alba castle area, but this is the only good think I can say about ... Restaurant is ok, traditionally meal, good wine offer.

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 21, 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Family Junior Suite
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Great location. We loved the view over the Alba Carolina Citadel

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 11, 2023

    1.0
    Unlike
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Budget Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Dirt in the room Carpet was blue but whit many spots of dirt they don’t clean the carpet in the last 10 years

    Notting

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: August 7, 2023

    4.0
    Disappointing
    • Business trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Old and never refurbished. Elevators are in very poor condition. Room did not have AC. Painting on walls looks bad. Bathroom is not decent. Restaurant empty and smells bad. Breakfast is not really ok.

    Position is great. There is a parking space.

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 6, 2023

    1.0
    No air conditioned rooms
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Twin Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The none air conditioned rooms are to be avoided if you want sleep.

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: July 19, 2023

    2.0
    The price of the room is way to high for what this hotel offers
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Dirty bathroom, dirty walls in the room with mold, no a/c, old furniture in bad conditions, very old and unsafe elevators

    Location

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: July 11, 2023

    5.0
    if you want to return in the 80s...this is the place
    • Business trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Budget Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    AC only in a few rooms.

    Good cheese. Great location.

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: July 4, 2023

    4.0
    not recomended for longer stays.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights

    small and old bathroom, old furniture.

    Breakfast was good, various meals. Great view.

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: May 17, 2023

    1.0
    will never stay and will not recommend.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Hotel is too old and dirty. Staff is not at all hospitable, especially at the reception. Gives a feeling of Communist time. Everything was crappy, you name it. Bed sheets were stinking like smoke, bed was very old, TV remote was hardly working, hot water was coming only after keeping the tap on for 10 minutes, etc.

    Only the location was good.

    Stayed in April 2023

  • Reviewed: May 15, 2023

    3.0
    Poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Budget Double Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The fan on the bathroom didn't work, we have a single bath towel even we're registered as a couple and took more than 12 hours to get another one, the bedside has spots on her, on the below of the bed was dirty, we saw a plastic pet which I wasn't able to reach, was somewhere on the middle of the bed and as a top of the cake when we stop the TV the programme was on Antena 1... when we comeback from visiting the citadel, surprise...the TV was on Netflix...a logical conclusion...the room attendant watching Netflix.

    Location _ right in the middle of the citadel Alba Carolina

    Stayed in May 2023

  • Reviewed: May 9, 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Twin Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Marvelous interior, good food.

    Stayed in May 2023

  • Reviewed: May 1, 2023

    5.0
    Budget accomodation in a good location.
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Twin Room
    • Stayed 2 nights

    The matress on single bed and size of the bed. I hardly got hot water on the 7th floor. The private hotel parking is abused by locals with the management knowldege, therefore is very likely that parking space is not available. The walls could be cleaner, there where fingers stains which can be easily clean. The hotel is anchored in the 80's atmosphere with many things to remind you this.

    The location and part of the breakfast.

    Stayed in April 2023

  • Reviewed: April 9, 2023

    5.0
    Fair
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    there is no hot water

    parking, good breakfast, excelent location, good price

    Stayed in April 2023

  • Reviewed: April 7, 2023

    1.0
    Very Poor
    • Business trip
    • Group
    • Twin Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    everything was disappointed,it is not ok for booking to promote this kind of hotels to the clients.The propriety doesn't have no more than 1 star. The person from reception was a smelling man,very dirty We had problem with the water,because the watter from bathroom didn't work. In the night they stoped the warm ,and it was cold. The sheets waren't clean. I cand give them a note from 1 to 10 ,not. more than 1

    Stayed in April 2023

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