Kostroma Hotels

The hotels were personally checked by WayToRussia.Net team in August 2001. The prices are in $ US.


KORVET BOAT-HOTEL.
The small single rooms cost from 100 to 200 roubles ($3.5-$7). A small double room costs 350 roubles ($12) for two people. Inside there's a simple bed, a sink, clean sheets, a desk, a chair, and a cupboard. The common toilets are downstairs. If you want to have a shower, the receptionists can let you in the room-apartment with a bathroom, if nobody is staying there. Otherwise there's no shower.
A two-bedroom apartment with two double beds, a kitchen, a private bathroom and a toilet costs 400 roubles ($13.5) for the whole apartment. Four people can easily stay there (for the same price).
As the hotel is installed in a former pier, some of the rooms have a view on the river. The prices are the same for foreigners and for Russians.
Description. Because it's installed in a boat on the river Volga, you first have to cross a little wooden bridge to enter the hotel from the riverbank. On the basement, there's a kind of wooden tavern, where you can have a dinner, or party with the big fat Dagestani men, also staying in the hotel sometimes, because it's close to the market nearby. For its low prices the hotel is popular mostly with Russian tourists.
The smelly common toilets are next to the tavern. Up the steep wooden stairs, along a narrow corridor you'll find the room of the friendly receptionist and the other different rooms.
Location. This hotel is located in the center of Kostoma, on the embankment of Volga river. It's within 10 minutes walking to the centrum (the Trading arcades), and within 15 minutes by trolley and 10 minutes walking from the railway station.
WayToRussia.Net advice: The cheapest and a special place to stay while in Kostroma, but it's a bit dusty. You won't be able to reserve a room there, you can just come by and check - usually they have rooms even in summer.
Address: #90, Nizhnie Debri (?????? ?????) ul. From the Trading arcades (Susanina square) in the centrum, walk down to Volga river embankment and turn right. Walk along the embankment about 2 minutes. Contacts: No phone, no fax, no email.

MUSH HOTEL-GUESTHOUSE.
You can rent one of their cosy luxury double rooms for 1 hour for $5 US. If you want a double for 24 hours it will cost $40 to $50 US. But you can also rent the same double for 12 hours (from 21 to 9) for $23 US for two people, and for $30 US for three people (they'll put an additional bed in the double). Reservations are free 10 days before checking in, and it's better to reserve as early as possible.
There are four double rooms. Inside each room, there is a very comfy double bed, wooden furniture, carpets, nice lamps, a tv with more than 50 satellite channels, a phone. The rooms are very neat and clean and offer different atmospheres: deep dark red bed linen give the perfect ambience for a 'hot' night whereas the bright cosy bedroom is ideal for an afternoon rest. A clean shared bathroom (for two rooms) with a bath, a shower, a bidet, a toilet is on every floor.
The breakfast is comprised with the price, there are eight different menus for every taste. You can use the kitchen downstairs for free, to cook your own meals.
Description. Mush guesthouse is located right next to the historical city center on Sovetskaya street. The big black traditional building houses also an armenian wine shop and a bar-pizzeria. The entrance of the hotel is from the inside courtyard. When you push the door it feels cosy and smells like a western place because of its new furniture and carpets. Downstairs there is a kitchen with a fridge full of nice fresh things and a large dining room with a tv. The rooms are on the two upper floors.
The receptionist is very kind and helpful, but she doesn't speak much english. The guesthouse can also organise a tour around Kostroma, and buy train and airline tickets for you through their partner agency, but it will be a bit expensive.
There's a free parking for guests downstairs.
WayToRussia.Net advice: Hotel Mush is a cosy place, it's nice for intimacy. You can stay here to have a taste of luxury for not much money, if you stay only 12 hours to make it affordable.
Address: #29, Sovetskaya (?????????) ul. If you take the trolley #2 from the railway station it'll take you to the city center and stop close to the hotel. It's on the right side of the road (if you face the centrum) in a black and white house.
Contacts: reservations & reception phone (0942) 31-24-00, phone/fax: (0942) 31-10-45. Email: bacha@mush.ru

VOLGA HOTEL.
Located right after the bridge over the Volga river, which you'll take if you're coming from Ivanovo or Yaroslavl to Kostroma. The higher the rooms are located in this concrete building, the higher the price will be. The simpliest double costs 400 roubles ($14 US), 'improved' doubles are 600 to 750 roubles ($21-$26 US). The cheapest rooms are not always available, so you should reserve beforehand.
Address: #1, Yunosheskaya (?????????) ul. Location: on the right after you cross the Volga bridge there'll be the high white building of the hotel with '?????' ('Volga') big sign on top.
Contacts: phone (0942) 54-61-63

INTOURIST-KOSTROMA.
A motel located slightly out of town, in the direction of Ivanovo.
Address: #40, Magistralnaya (?????????????) ul.
Contacts: phone (0942) 53-36-61

BEREZKA HOTEL.
Address: #159, Mira prospekt.
Contacts: phone (0942) 55-67-22

KOSTROMA HOTEL.
Address: #120, Sovetskaya ul.
Contacts: phone (0942) 54-10-81