[QUOTE=Helena Moscow]To It Travel:
Thank you very much for detailed posting and pictures of Izmailovo. Now it’s clear, girls avoid it in vain.
To GrandJim: ;)[/QUOTE]
Dear Helena…
As the prices of hotels in central Moscow are crazy and I’m travelling on fixed basis reimbursement I prefer to put 18-22 minutes on the underground.
For approx 150 € at Izmailovo Gamma-Delta I get a suite, renovated usually with:
Computer, Fast internet line, Scanner, Printer, Private fax line, Minibar, Office basic things, Bath, Sleeping room, Bathrobe, etc, a real wardrobe, and much more. Breakfast for two is included. Visa registration also. Telephone and minibar are quite cheap and efficient as the staff (when you are in the suite). For 22 € you can get a single (a nightmare!) funiture since 1979!.
I really think the Izmailovo is infamous due to the other blocks, to some bad rooms, and to the caucasian market. By the way I have been there dozen of times, even in the bars and eating mutton shashlik and never had any kind of problem… I think it’s only a perception from ugly taxi driver (but I take the metro), and from some “hard” security staff, specially in the Alfa block. Often I got two girls on my room in Gamma or Delta… no problem at all, I even got them at breakfast, one registered and you pay 300 RUR for the third…
So I think it’s a good compromise between price efficiency etc, and the you have the vernissage, and most of all a lot of efficient services (air ticket, train, restaurant for all prices, shops, laundry, photo shop, and whatever) inside the Izmailovo complex.
Every time I get there I still find something I did not know! It’s absolutely to big. The last is a Sauna and Pool at ground floor on the Delta Block ( in the Elevators hall, in the former Armenian Restaurant). Ill’ go there next time, but there are at least (in the area) three more saunas.
IT
PS But if you have a customer there you have to tell him how it works, in some places they have face control, here it's RUR control, but it MUST be very discreet!
