I am a Nurse, my Husband a Public speaker together we have a combined salary of 150,000 a year to give an idea, that is because sometimes the people who live reviews might have different opinion in what is good for them. we love to travel and we read reviews from other people and we research the area before staying at the property, we stayed for 5 nights then we went to Moscow but overall the Hotel room is small compare to USA hotels. but was all we needed, two twin beds, very clean room and bathroom, the room was above the restaurant no smoke odor at all. close to the bus stop, take bus 22 two blocks from hotel and you will be in the heart of the action in less than 10 Min. supermarket right across from bus stop, friendly staff, breakfast until 11Am. breakfast more like brunch, plenty of choices, food was excellent. hotel minibus pick you up at the train station, hotel located in one of the oldest historic areas for a couple of dollars an hour you can take a laptop to your room and access the internet. we use it about 4 times and work very good in the room. true is not the best hotel but we strongly agree was very very nice and very friendly. TV only Russian channel but we never watch TV. we travel to see places not to watch TV. for a hotel and price in St. Petersburg I give them a 4 of of 5 stars counting that the hotel price through Expedia. I do not know if we ever will go back to Russia but if we go back one day, yes we will stay again