Tsentralnaya

One step inside and you understand why these are the cheapest accommodations in the heart of Moscow. The price and its location (the hotel's name means "central" in English) are the only reasons to stay here. They just barely compensate for the dilapidated rooms, shady guests, and overtired staff. Only the two "deluxe" rooms have showers or bathtubs; the rest have hall facilities with irregular plumbing. The hotel does not arrange visas. Securing a room takes persistence or a Russian-speaking mediator. That said, the high ceilings of the pre-revolutionary building suggest former grandeur. Its once-solid reputation soured when many Soviet nomenklatura staying here were arrested in nighttime raids during Stalin's purges of the 1930s. Today its guests are young travelers or businesspeople from ex-Soviet republics eager for a piece of Moscow's wealth. The hotel offers almost no services of its own, but exchange booths, taxis, restaurants, and bars abound just outside its doors.

Facilities:
Concierge, sometimes English-speaking

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