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Yunoste Hotel

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grayshar Just Starting Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1 Location: UK	Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:02 am    Post subject: Yunoste Hotel Hello...I would like to book a double room at the Yunoste hotel in march, at the prices shown on waytorussia.net, but the language barrier has gotten in the way. A friend in Moscow called them for me, and they told him the rate was three times more than waytorussia.net says. I ama bit stuck...can anyone help? Sharon
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blaked Lounge Lizard Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 180 Location: Moscow	Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:59 pm    Post subject: Stay at the Rossiya. It's an amazing relic from the Soviet Era and it will be destroyed next year. If that doesn't suit, rent an apartment through rentline. You won't get static from hotel staff taking friends to your room if you rent an apartment.
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FlyingRussianMan Frequent Guest Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 36	Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:17 pm    Post subject: Oh Man, Its going to be destroyed? In all my travel guides they say to stay there. Guess it the Hyatt on Neglinnaya Street for me when I come in a few years. Why are they knocking it down?
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AliceFromMoscow WayToRussified Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 411	Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:19 pm    Post subject: Because it doesnt fit into architectural portrait of the place where its located.
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FlyingRussianMan Frequent Guest Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 36	Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:57 pm    Post subject: Where is it? And is Neglinnaya Street near the Kremlin?
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AliceFromMoscow WayToRussified Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 411	Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:57 pm    Post subject: Hotel Rossiya is near the Kremlin.
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castilho Frequent Guest Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 71 Location: Sao Paulo - Brazil	Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:36 am    Post subject: Rossya During the Olympic Games, in 1980, Rossya was the hotel for international media. Almost all foreign journalists - me included - stayed there. It was a little spartan but clean and confortable. And very easy to be lost in their corridors. It's a pity it's gonna be destroyed. I have picture with the great Olga Korbutt in the main entrance of the hotel.
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Skip Talk Show Host Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 283 Location: Planet Warez	Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:12 am    Post subject: blaked wrote: Stay at the Rossiya. It's an amazing relic from the Soviet Era and it will be destroyed next year. <snip> Just think what that plot of land would fetch! I guess the developers are going to have to kiss Putins butt pretty smartly, can't imagine a Holiday Inn or Mac Donalds getting squeezed in there
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FlyingRussianMan Frequent Guest Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 36	Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:38 am    Post subject: Well if Russia is pulling towards Capitalism and Democracy as they say they are; then they will build a McDonald’s, Holiday Inn, and a Starbucks where it used to be.
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Skip Talk Show Host Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 283 Location: Planet Warez	Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:46 am    Post subject: FlyingRussianMan wrote: Well if Russia is pulling towards Capitalism and Democracy as they say they are; then they will build a McDonald’s, Holiday Inn, and a Starbucks where it used to be. You truly ain't been there yet then?!? And if you do stay in the Rossiya Hotel don't go for the cheaper rooms that look over the inner courtyard... get a room with a ringside view of St Basils... there are two very good reasons for this suggestion... 1) The view, oddly enough, is a little bit better... 2) The bedsheets are cotton... not nylon like in the cheaper rooms... People don't get friction burns from the carpets in the worlds largest hotel, it's a hazard of any sudden movement in between the sheets... no gymnastics are required, cos' you can do it sleeping all alone If you go for one of the cheaper rooms I recommend pulling down the curtains and kipping in them... You wanna' double bed? You might as well ask for directions to the fountain of youth... and what about the lift-bouncers... LOL... there to stop the hookers and petty thieves from entering... and to really make your day when you stumble into the lobby at 2.45am... inebriated and worse for wear, with a touch of frostbite... having just been ripped off by a Moscow cabbie... and at a loss to remember which pocket your may have put your keys inside And that's just the good news....
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castilho Frequent Guest Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 71 Location: Sao Paulo - Brazil	Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:08 pm    Post subject: Rossya I know a very interesting story about the Rossya. It happened during the 70's. During the winter, in Januray,a brazilian mission went to Moscow to discuss some commercial trading. And stayed at Rossya. They arrived at night. Next day, the temperature was about - 25 degrees Celsius. But the sun was shining. One of the members of the mission - from Recife, a city in northwest of Brazil where the temperature is always near 30 degrees - came to the hall wearing only a Tshirt. It was his first trip abroad. He said: "The sun is shining. I'm going to see the Red Square.". Everybody imagined it was a joke. But he left the hotel in Tshirt. After 100 metter, he knocked down and became really blue (color not the mood). He was carried back to hotel and the people from Rossya took him into a hot bathtube. After a while, he came up and said: "OK, guys, next time I'll wear a hat (!)." It was told to me by a brazilian corresponsal who spent many years in Moscow.
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maarten Just Starting Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 6	Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:26 pm    Post subject: I stayed in the Rossiya last week, they can't destroy it!!! It's history! In one hall (north I think) workers were busy with what I thought was renovating old rooms, but now I hear they will destroy the hotel so I guess they already started to dismantle it It's a very good location and prizes are reasonable for that part of Moscow I guess...
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