Typical Soviet Hotel and other Hrodna, Belarus Hotel/Accommodation Reviews

While in Hrodna I couldn't find someone who could host me on Hospitalityclub or Couchsurfing, but I met with a local girl of HC who suggested me to stay at the big Hotel Belarus. There was a bikers meeting on that night so it was full of bikers from Poland and nearby countries, but the hotel is huge and it was not a big problem to find a room.
The only problem is, once again, if you don't speak Russian and you don't have a Russian friend translating since at the reception they don't know any English word (maybe they know Polish) and you'll probably find the typical "apparatchik" which can be helpful like a stone.
Once you get a room you have to go to your floor with the paper you got from the apparatchik and contact the dizhurnaya, which is usually a nice old lady, and she will give you the key and say something uncomprehensible if you don't speak Russian! :)
My room was very simple and clean, surely not a luxury hotel, but fine for a night even if I slept terribly bad that night, but I suppose not because of the hotel. On the Lonely Planet guide they write that at night you can be called or knocked at the door by prostitutes. It didn't happen to me... was I unlucky? ;)


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Theme: Hotel
Comparison: least expensive
Prices: less than US$20  » Currency Converter
Phone: +375-152.740780
Address: Kalinovskogo 1
Directions: The hotel is out of the old town and quite far from the railway and bus stations. There are trolley passing by, but I don't remember which numbers.