Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk hotels

Pros: The Wi-Fi was excellent as was the really helpful staff who catered to my every need. The location if you wish to snowboard/ski is excellent and within a reasonable walking distance. The 'best club in Yuzho-Sakhalinsk' (if such a title needs to be awarded) is in the adjacent building and open until the sun rises on weekends. They also have a karaoke bar in the hotel, though from what I saw it catered to a middle aged audience. Bed was very comfy and bath was good too.

Cons: To be honest the breakfast is really not good (and I live in Russia/travel all over) for the money I paid. It was a strange mix of food, with few 'classic' breakfast items. Only cold hard-boiled eggs, some muesli, toast and yogurt (tea/juice/coffee was fine). The rest of the food was frankly dinner/lunch carbohydrate food and of poor quality. The breakfast staff were also indifferent and not of the same standard as the wonderful receptionists, they looked like they would rather be anywhere else.

Pros: Great, clean, cosy room, perfect views, really friendly and helpful staff.

Pros: The hotel met and exceeded my expectations. The rooms are very comfortable and have everything one needs, the views are astonishing, the location is perfect - on the edge of the park with the mountain ranges starting right behind it. But what I appreciated the most, was how helpful and nice the receptionists were. They helped me with every single request. Really heartwarming. Will definitely return to this hotel in future. ))

Pros: Really nice restaurant for dinner. You MUST go. The lady at front spoke really good English and was kind. I liked the hotel very much.

Cons: No breakfast included. But there was a lovely burger shop in front of the hotel and 100 % beef burger was delicious.

Pros: Staff was very friendly and helpful. The view from the room was great (mountains). Breakfast was included, and there were good choices provided. Caraoke was open until 1 am. It's a stylish hotel, I would definitely stay again.

Pros: Green location, Japanese comfort, American size.

Cons: That didn't get back on several requests to help organize tours.

Pros: Very nice location, friendly personnel, and testy dishes.

Cons: Awful smell in the room, probably this smell was from the sewerage system in the toilet. But anyway it was very unpleasant thing. Certainly it must be improved!

Pros: The hotel has large rooms with a comfortable bed, flat screen TV, water, and nice renovated bathroom with shower and bath tub, Good spread at breakfast with European options , lovely property and fantastic location,

Cons: Rooms are dated and smelly,

Pros: It was clean and located in a good part of town

Cons: There was no public transportation nearby.the options were taxis or unreliable shuttle bus.

Pros: the park and hill in front hotel is amazing. 5km running will be perfect in the morning.

Cons: Hotel was build by wood I guess. So not really noise free. You could hear clearly what happened outside your door.

Pros: Clean nice hotel

Cons: My flight arrive 4 hours before check in time.I asked reception early check in,but she asked me 50% payment.They had many available rooms,but didn’t allow me for early check in.50% payment for 3-4 hours early check in is not correct I think

Pros: Breakfast was great and location is good!

Cons: Nothing to ask for more!

Pros: All was good

Cons: All was good.

Pros: The location is good, and everything you need is in the room.

Cons: Beds! Quite uncomfortable. And the staff seemed to be ever occupied with anything but you.

Pros: Great hotel, clean, beautiful, with very friendly and helpful staff. Arrived a few hours before check-in time, but was immediately allowed into my room, no extra charge or hassle. Overall, a very pleasant experience.

Pros: Location and facilities

Pros: Room temperature control, nice view from the room, cleanliness.

Cons: Slow elevators used by smokers from the offices of the first 5 floors. Smell in the room. Paid early check in at 11AM without breakfast provided. Bad sound insulation (thin walls).

Pros: Everything was very good..strongly recommend this hotel

Cons: -

Pros: One of the best hotel in YS, may be only one suitable.

Cons: Staff on reception could be more friendly.

Pros: All really good. An obvious option for business business.

Cons: Location is not in the centre but in a pleasant park area at the outskirts of the city, which arguably is an advantage, rather than minus.

Pros: Bed, bath, size of the room, fitness, massage

Cons: -

Pros: The service by staffs were very fine. Mini store is located near by the hotel.

Cons: The hotel is not located in the center of the city, but you can feel nature :)

Pros: The people and can do attitude of everbody

Cons: English is still not widely spoken by all staff

Pros: Near the airport, near where my local office is. Town is small, so it is not really far to get anywhere

Cons: Nothing to complain

Pros: The hotel is very quiet. The mini-store is adjacent to the hotel.

Cons: When we tried to have a lunch, there was no staff in the restaurant and we had to wait for a long time.

Pros: Excellent hotel. Rooms are big, very quiet and very clean. The hotel stuff is very polite, professional (in Russia is not very often) and always available. Breakfast as quite good choice. The two restaurants inside hotel are good and acceptable prices. Thank you!

Cons: They do not have a free transfert to airport but reception can book a taxi: you can pay by credit card, is cost around 330 Rubles.

Cons: The hotel did not receive my message nor my email which were sent from booking.com reservation web-site. Changing of departure date to earlier was not possible in booking.com reservation site due to the hotel being fully booked. This does not make sense.

Pros: it was better than I expected.

Cons: The speed of Wifi was not fast enough that compared with other hotel.

Pros: I enjoyed my stay pretty much in all aspects...ah! the forest is not far away for a walk.

Cons: Nothing to mention

Pros: Nothing no English, no heating no bus, no idea how to serve in the bar

Cons: All of it , example if you want milk for coffee in the room you have to pay, take care with the mini bar check what they report as taken

Pros: Rooms are clean, tide, fully equipped and with decent size. Great value.

Pros: The room was relatively clean and well-lit. I liked the breakfast a lot - hadn't had such a good food for breakfast for quite a while in hotels around the globe. The staff seemed polite. The area of the city and/or good sound isolation in the hotel allowed to rest well while staying at this place.

Cons: I wish the suite room was larger, had a better bathtub and two guests received two keys for the room instead of one. The fridge was incredibly small and had very little room, so it was hard to store anything properly. A few wine glasses would have also been much appreciated.

Pros: Good hotel,good staff

Cons: Everything is ok

Pros: Location, clean, spacious room.

Cons: Breakfast could be better

Pros: Location, free pool and gym. Big bed. Good wifi in the room.

Cons: Prices are way too high for such services and accommodation. Waiters in restaurants are new every time and have difficulties discussing menu. Dirty ugly couch at reception. No robe in the room. Showering equipment is old and requires update. One can't control room temperature - need to address to reception each time.

Pros: I liked the location of this hotel and the design.

Cons: I didn’t like the staff over there. Specially front office girls. They were quite rude and when I wanted to make my payment they didn’t have change.

Pros: Nice wooden building in the very centre of Yuzhny. Cozy and comfortable. Really close to all the main buildings. All necessary accessories are available. 20 minutes to ski resort "Gorny Vozduh". Staff is quite friendly and helpful (not anybody but majority)

Cons: Breakfast was nearly the same in all days. Convenient grocery shop is a little bit far from hotel (10 minutes by foot approximately).

Pros: Breakfast was so nice! And your staffs are very kind. Room is clean and comfortable.

Cons: We couldn’t find the way to turn off the heater and the room was a little hot.

Pros: Nice Alternative near my customers. Has all I need. Special the WLAN was working ok even in the rooms.

Cons: Breakfast is downstairs without elevator

Pros: Everything was good, except wifi. Mishka pub a real bonus for ex pats.

Cons: Wifi is provided by an enteral company (Sakhalin wifi). It was a real problem when doing work in the hotel, as it was slow and kept dropping out.

Pros: Everything was fine.

Cons: Everything was fine.

Pros: Restaurant selection to. E more diet friendly and low sodium

Cons: Front door was broken

Pros: Low noise level in rooms, great location and commodities.

Cons: WIFI was drastic. Today's world is very dependent on mobility and communication, a good internet connection is required for most of our daily tasks especially when traveling for work. Unfortunately, this hotel could not offer a stable wifi connection in 2018.

Pros: Staff is just perfect.

Cons: Mattress was not my favorite type.

Pros: Location

Cons: Check-in: charged for early check-in without telling the guest about. I refused to pay, but how many people do? Room: regular room is small, bed is tiny, bathroom is old, rusty and dirty. I upgraded to “semi sweet”, bathroom still the same-rusty. Constantly had problems with our keys, they just stop working, so had to go down to reception 2-3 times (in 5-10min) to change it until they finally get themselves upstairs and check that there’s a problem. Breakfast: waiters are slow and depressing. Coffee is horrible, tea was served almost at the room temperature. Variety of food is OK, but quality of it is poor. Constantly running out of bread. Service: most of the staff do not speak English well and lazy. Once I was sitting in my room in a bathrobe and the door opens and girl from reception with two other guests are staring at me... seriously???? This is unacceptable. Next time this hotel will not be considered to stay at.

Pros: Excellent location. This was my second stay in the hotel, as I was coming back from a Kuril Islands trip back to continent. At this time, reception agent noted my request for a room on a high floor with nice view, and assigned a room on top floor with excellent view. Receptionist was very courteous, different one from my first experience in the previous week. This time, it was a short stay, but I just encountered professional and attentive staff, different from the 1st stay. Staff made me feel I was at a much better hotel. This time, temperature at the room was 21 Centigrades, as external temperature was cooler too. Shower worked fine, different from the first stay too.

Cons: You cannot control room temperature, which is really bad. Hotel is excellent, with staff ranging from courteous/attentive to indifferent ones.

Pros: Location is excellent, close to downtown and all the attractions. Also, room has a very comfortable bed with good linen plus all the amenities, flat-screen tv and mini-bar. Restaurant offers a wide range of (excellent) breakfast items. I made good use of the bicycle rental arranged by the front desk.

Cons: They have no idea of the meaning of "customer service". Requested a room on a high floor with good view, which was ignored by reception agent "Igor", who gave me a room of the 4th floor (1st guest floor). When I got to the room, temperature was too high, and I was unable to lower it. Reception sent a technician, who said it was impossible to control temperature from the room, which was fixed at 24 centigrades. I went down to reception and talked again to agent "Igor" and his colleague, a lady who refused to talk in English. I explained that I had a 13 hours flight, was tired, and external air temperature was over 27 centigrades and room temperature between 24-25 centigrades, which was too warm. He offered me a fan or the option to leave the hotel I said both options were unacceptable and was told he was going to contact the manager and would get back to me. I could not rest in the very warm room, and after a few hours, went back to reception and Mr Igor said still no contact from the manager but he would call me latter. I never was contacted by anyone from the reception during my stay and had to cope with the uncomfortable high room temperature. Used their cafe "Aroma" lounge close the reception, asked for my favorite Russian dessert "Napoleon" and coffee. Waiter "Dmitri" brought me a coffee and an apple pie. I said it was not "Napoleon" and he shrunk his shoulders. It could be an excellent hotel, but ruined with poorly trained staff. Only courteous person in the reception as the lady who helped me to rent the bike. I hope they can re-train staff to match comfort and convenience of the location.

Pros: Not the first time staying here. Always clean and comfortable rooms. Staff is just ready to help in any matters. The hotel is located close to city center. Great breakfast!

Pros: Everything was fine. Everybody was friendly & helpful.

Cons: Everything was fine. Everybody was friendly & helpful.

Cons: No socket near the bed, only one available under the table. Usual this is used for charging the mobile phone.

Pros: Location and service.

Cons: No safe, no coffee or tea in the room, breakfast wasn't the best.

Pros: Good location and the staff qualification

Cons: No space between the bed and the table. It is not so easy to pass between them.

Pros: The room was pretty smart, but fine for just one person. The hotel is centrally located within walking distance to all points of interest in the city center. Breakfast like in 3 star hotel - no thrills, but still with enough selection of food (including hot dishes like meet and fish). Bathroom quite old fashioned, but generally OK.

Cons: AC was not working properly and it was impossible to fix it. Thus, it was too hot in my room.

Pros: Rich and tasty breakfast.

Cons: Maybe just some strange smell in the room, but overall the hotel was brilliant.

Pros: Bed is comfy and equipment is good. The Breackfast is acc to Russian standard - Full Meal. So you can expect Rice, Noodels, Steack or Straganov. So if you are used to this you will be fine. If I will be in YHZ next time, I could imagine selecting this Hotel again.

Cons: Wifi was not always working at least not in my room. Juices are pure sugar water and have only the color from that particular juice.

Pros: The room was wide and very clean.

Cons: Nothing.

Pros: Great location, just by the very city center. Cool value for money. Staff is ok. Very funny bar

Cons: It definitely needs kinda renovation. It seems like refrigerator in room was the witness of WW2

Pros: Great location in the center. Nice personnel.

Pros: Renewed bathroom

Cons: Soviet style facilities and service, poor breakfast.