I went to Chisinau to check out their annual wine festival in October, because I'd been to Napa enough. I stayed here for the weekend.

The hotel itself was what I would describe as "European" functional. Not especially nice or luxereous, but absolutely nothing wrong either. Plenty of room, safe and a good price. I'd certainly stay there again and I don't know if there are really any better hotels in the city, which does not see a lot of tourism.

My three stars is based on a worldwide view of hotels. It's possible that for the city, this was a four-star or higher, just to calibrate.

The desk folks spoke English, which was helpful, and the location was very near the main squares and an easy cab ride from pretty much anything you would want to check out. There is security and everyone was very helpful.

There were lots of good restaurants and bars around, too. more