The potential charm of this three-room pad’s wonderful location and pseudo-historical building is offset by the rather bizarre atmosphere with no reception and offputtingly impersonal speaker-phone security gates. Bookings are essential.
Upstairs within an unlikely university dorm block are 20 unpretentious rooms primarily aimed at visiting foreign lecturers or students.
Thirteen storeys of peeling pink exterior paintwork are highly off-putting at first glance. But, within, the Dvina has been tastefully refurbished with quality linens, tiled bathrooms and an over-cutesy restaurant.
Probably northern Russia’s best-value business hotel, the professionally run Pur Navolok offers bright international-style rooms accessed by glass elevator from an airy modern atrium. Rates include extensive buffet breakfasts.
The concrete-slab architecture and soulless foyer don't inspire confidence but the rooms are good-sized and in good condition. The location is reasonably convenient for the bus and train stations but not for anything else.
In a pastel-green wooden building, the Polina has just half a dozen beautiful rooms and apartments, all with double beds, and spacious sitting areas with fireplaces. There's billiards and a sauna too.
This very comfortable, small, business-oriented hotel has multilingual desk staff and high-class service. All rooms are of Western standard and individually decorated.
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