Hotel Avion

Good location. Close to shopping mall, but still quiet and close to public transports so it's easy to reach center

Hotel Avion is more disappointing than initially thought. I have known and used this place years back and got really disappointed with the hotel, its management and the poor services they offered then. Over ten years later, these have not changed, they in fact became worse. It is a hotel from the Slovak Communism era and is still hanging to it. There is no proper reception there as in any hospitality normal unit, ie: an open plan reception for the staff to communicate and interact with the guests. The reception is all lockdown, with a full glass wall "protecting" the staff from "guests", and communications through bare tiny windows... plus if you don't speak Slovak, then you are lost. Very few people at the reception and the reception speak proper English. Unfortunately, they are not there, or available all the time. So, at times you are talking to walls or to the glass itself. Why this extra security, no one knows. I was told that the hotel accommodates homeless people put there by the local social authorities (...), and is also used as a place to live by temporary workers or daily labourers from outside the area. The hotel is not also properly maintained. The old lift is still there and hardly worked, it is not easy to open though as it was years back when I used it and got locked in it. The hotel stinks & smells bad, from the moment you enter it. The rooms are small, adapted and just about clean if you don't look at the shower and toilets. And the beds are of another era