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Property Amenities
Riviera on Podol offers a prime location steps from the Poshtova Square Metro station and the riverfront. Numerous restaurants are right down the street. Saint Andrew's Church, St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, and Saint Sophia Cathedral are all less than 1 km (0.6 mi) away.
An original art collection is displayed in public areas and suites. Guests can dine in the rooftop restaurant, or enjoy in-room dining 24 hours a day. The Elixir spa offers a wide array of relaxing and rejuvenating treatments, as well as a fitness room and hair salon.
Other amenities include a multilingual staff, 24-hour front desk, concierge services, and a business center.
Room Amenities
Rooms
This Kiev hotel has 80 guestrooms. LCD TVs come with satellite channels in Ukrainian, Russian, German, French, Italian and Polish. Pay movies are also available. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. Rooms also offer minibars, desks, and in-room safes. Complimentary bottled water is provided daily.
Marble bathrooms feature separate showers and tubs, heated towel racks, herbal bath products, telephones, makeup/shaving mirrors, thick bathrobes, and slippers. Riviera on Podol provides nightly turndown service.
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out of 28 reviews
“American in Kiev”
Most of staff spoke English. I'm not sure if they have the ability to get other channels, but it would have been nice to have more American channels. Watching BBC and CNN for hours isn't very enjoyable. Hotel had about the same accomodations of any decent hotel brand. The location was nice enough and getting to main part of Kiev was fairly easy. Breakfast was included, and they offered plenty of options for the buffet. If you have been in that part of Europe you know the coffee is terrible. I think bringing a few Starbuck instant packs would be a good move. Staff did money exchange for me in just a few minutes. To get the honest rate, I suggest going to a local poker room near center city. They gave me correct rate without any charges. I would stay there again.
“Breakfast quality”
would be great to improve breakfast quality (variety of fruits, juices from concentrate should be changed for freshly squised ones etc)
“ALL IN ALL, EXCELLENT”
All in all, an excellent hotel. Great location, adjacent to the Funicular (cable car) that takes you from Podol area up to St. Michael's Sq.. From here it is an easy walk to St Sophia Cath., St. Andrew's Cath., St. Andrew's Descent, street vendors, shopping, synagogue, National Museum, etc.. Staff spoke good English; arranged our transfer to the airport, stored our luggage for the day; and were generally friendly. Only deficiency was their lack of knowledge or ability to arrange city tours or day tours outside the city. Tourist information seems not to be high on the Kiev list of priorities. We did find, on one of our great walks to the city center, near Independence Sq. and nexrt to the MacDonald's, the Tourist Information Center where Eugene hooked us up with several day tours. The breakfast buffet is outstanding and i still am wondering what "baked milk" is. Great variety of items and they will cook eggs, omelets to order. Plenty of good places to eat near the hotel, in particular one restaurant about four doors down from the hotel. The hotel seems to fairly new and is in great condition. we were vey pleased with everything and would definitely give the hotel a "thumbs up" and a "tip of the hat."
“World's Best Hotel”
especially restaurants
“Excellent location, helpful staff”
While traveling we stayed at 5 star hotels. This hotel exceeded our expectations and we loved the location. The funicular that does to up town is right around the corner as well as the metro. Just excellent!
“Very Impressed”
The hotel is centrally located and close to a Metro stop. I got upgraded to a business suite at no charge on arrival - the room was immaculate and had a beautiful view. The hotel staff was very responsive, polite and went out of their way to accommodate my requests (I needed to change my money back into dollars on my last day and did not have time to go to the bank, so one of the hotel staff did it for me). I would definitely recommend this hotel and stay there again.
“1st time in Kiev”
Excellent property, efficient staff, food quality very good wait staff very friendly. Great location close to city transportation and the river restaurants. I would stay here again.
“Good choice among other Kiev hotels. Smaller but quiet and with supporting personnel.”
Nice to spend after business hours place. Sometimes it may be a problem to pay with VISA. The system does not allow it very often.
“The Riviera - Kiev's hidden hotel”
The hotel was a little expensive but it was very clean, nice, the staff was great, the food was fantastic and the location was perfect. I ate at the hotel restaurants probably 10 times and the food was great. A 10% gratuity is included with meals but I usually would leave extra as I always tip 20%; they do not expect this. The views are good too; you will get to people watch from both restaurants. The hotel is close to everything and you can walk, take a short taxi ride or take the subway to wherever you are going. The staff was professional, helpful, and friendly and most of them spoke English which was great. Housekeeping did a good job and they were responsive to your requests. I used the spa when I was there for two massages and that was nice. They let you shower in the massage room after your massage which was cool. I would definitely stay here again.
“Ukrain Trip”
The service was execellent. I liked breakfast menue. Food was very attractive. Good quality. Personal treated guests politely. Great experience
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The closest major airports to Riviera on Podol are:
Kiev (IEV-Zhulhany) - 7.9 km / 4.9 mi
Kiev (KBP-Borispol Intl.) - 29.4 km / 18.3 mi
The preferred airport for Riviera on Podol is Kiev (KBP-Borispol Intl.).
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
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