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Honour bar is in the business centre
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"much of the Communist-era nomenklatura remain embedded in Romania's structures of power..."
Report in the International Herald Tribune, 18th December 2006
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The bedroom area is similar to the bedroom block at Greenwich in the previous Review, and the bedrooms, with their separate toilet plus separate bath and shower tub are still ahead of the rest of the four star chains in their sophistication.The only minor niggle I would have with this is that there really should be a small hand wash basin within the toilet space, and given that the other side of the toilet wall is the main wash hand basin, this should be relatively easy to do, avoiding the necessity to traipse from the toilet to the bathroom past the tea making facility and fridge, before being able to wash one's hands.
Unlike my experience of Greenwich, this hotel stands as an island in Bucharest, and the symbolism of the glazed theatrical front allows it to stand as a beacon showing a way forward for a new economy that is being built on the ruins of a failed centrally controlled socialism.
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The desk surface is quite generous, but the small wheel on the corner allows the top to rotate. Click on the image to see the effect
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The clever design of the bathroom maximises economy of fitting out within a single pod, providing a separate bath tub, shower and wc area in addition to a reasonable generous whb/vanity area. It all looks housekeeper friendly too.
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The bedrooms are oriented around the needs of western businessmen, but their use by local businesses will inevitably set a standard not just for local hotels but also for domestic expectations in the local market.
We have seen this happen in Britain, where our own poor hotel stock took huge blows with the development of the first package tours in the sixties. Travellers came back in numbers from new hotels built for the new trade in Spain, and the standard was high – raising expectations that UK hotels would match them. So, no longer was it acceptable to queue in the corridors for a bathroom, and one of the first major jobs I was involved with in the 1980’s was turning a major resort hotel into one with all en-suite bedrooms.
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Novotel Bucharest
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