Deminka Palace

Heritage building, with an impressive entrance hall, and centrally localised 5 min walk from Metro station. Spacious and comfortable rooms. Only negative point is lack of AC, much needed when summer kicks in specially at night.

Very good hotel nice customer service and the location is great!

Very nice hotel!

The bathroom is smelly and the building is really old.

Fantastic location. Between museum and IP pavlova tram/train stops. Great interior, beautiful and grand in communal areas. Rooms nicely decorated. W Beds a little hard. Staff polite, friendly and helpful. Downside to rooms, lack of plug sockets - Kettle has a short lead and difficult to find where to plug in. Not enough bed pillows. That said, we did not ask reception for more. They did not replenish the tea/coffee during stay. Only the milks. We could only find one plug socket. We found a further two sockets behind the bedside cabinets. We plugged our charger in only for this to burn out one night and the electricity went out and due to the new evening receptionist she was unable to turn it back on until she was relived in the morning. The receptionist though was ever so helpful and tried her best to help. We also received an apology in the morning. I have a bad back and found that there was no where to sit in the room with back support only a backless stool and ottoman. All that said we enjoyed our stay. Was very happy with our choice of hotel. We did not book breakfast and there’s lots of choice for breakfast towards IP pavalova. The Deminka restaurant that is shown in the hotel as the lounge bar - apparently is not connected to the hotel (ownership different) but would recommend. Good food reasonably priced and staff are very friendly and helpful. Also popular with locals too which is a good sign and has great history attached to the restaurant.

Deminka Palace is okay but has HUGE problems that people need to be wary of: - The hotel is boiling, or certain rooms are, even when it’s only about 15 degrees celcius outside (similar to England where we come from) - There is no air con and each room is limited to one fan - When you open the windows (which you need to do because of the heat) it means you’re hearing so much City Centre traffic, police sirens and construction work too - The baths come with a shower that don’t have a holder so you have to hold the shower whilst trying to clean yourself - The curtain in the bedroom fell off a little bit and we asked for somebody to come and sort this and they didn’t - for 3 days! In the interest of fairness, here are the positives: - Good location - Big size room - Clean room It’s not a terrible place to stay but just be wary of there being no air con and how hot the rooms are even when it isn’t hot outside. It’s actually a massive factor.