AZIMUT Hotel Astrakhan

What People are saying

Next to Volga River

_L7933YM on 14/11/2017 13:12

Just next to Volga River, perfect view from the room. You can take a walk every morning and evening along the bankment. And not far from the Kremlin. Staff here can speak English and are friendly.The room was really small, and breakfast can be better.

Soviet type. Гостиница советского типа.

Sergey L on 09/08/2017 16:51

What is good... 1. Location. It's close to thr embarkment of river Volga and in a walking distance from city-center. 2. Air conditioning system is cooling rooms quote effective, but you can not adjust it. 3. Prices are attractive. But...
What is not good. 1. Furniture like hello from soviet time. 2. No shower gel or schampoo, no snipers. Only towels.You can by some stuff on reception.

Average hotel, nothing special

tadejkirincic on 15/08/2015 10:03

I arrived to Astrakhan late in the evening and found this hotel on booking for discounted price cca 25 eur per night. When I arrived there they told me they can only give me a room for non-discounted price if I don't book it over booking.com... After few minutes of arguing they gave me the room for discounted price. It was probably one of the worst rooms in the hotel. It was on the end of the corridor, with the view on the harbour which is quite popular place for youth to stay and party in the evening....so it can be quite loud. Well it didn't bother me, but I am sure it would bother most visitors.

Otherwise it was OK. Staff was friendly, wifi is working great - at least in my room it was. I could park my motorcycle in front of the hotel and the guard guaranteed me he will look after it so I don't have to worry.

For the price I paid for the hotel it was OK...but if I had to pay non-discounted (double) price I would regret staying there.

Good for tourists and better for Russian ones

sssunmary on 06/11/2014 18:57

We were staying one night in August. Generally location is good. It was a bit noisy at the evening because our room had direction to the embankment and people stay there long during warm summer nights. My husband has long term Russian working visa for high qualified specialists and he can travel across Russia without registration for shirt term stay. For 3 years we visited may be 30 hotels in Russia and only in astrakhan azimut hotel at 7 o'clock in the morning guy at reception began to disturb us with a question of reason of our stay, confirmation of arrival ( we were traveling by car and he even asked to provide with holidays requirement from work). It was really annoying. We will not ever come back there.

Deceptive.

Caroline D on 29/09/2014 22:09

We arrived without a reservation and were quoted $100+ for a certain room type. After asking whether this was the best rate, we took the room, although we thought it quite steep. While waiting for the room to be ready we saw that the same room on booking.com was advertised (and available) at $56. Long story short: after asking the front desk staff why that was, and not getting a satisfactory answer, we were told we could book on booking.com. Which we did. And were then given one of the worst rooms we've had in Russia. Oh well. We then decided not to complain as our interaction with front desk hadn't been all that good anyway.

It has mostly been our experience in Russia that the rates advertised as available on booking.com (or similar sites) were also available for walk-ins. Not so here. And staff got quite smug about it. Mostly: smaller hotels always honored those rates; bigger properties or chains seemed to be the ones not offering those rates.

The room was old and tired. Bathroom very small and tired, with cracked tiles. Carpet hadn't seen cleaning product in quite some time.
We believe there were nicer, renovated rooms available.
Wifi. Off street parking. Good location. Average breakfast.

PS: we picked this hotel, as our first choice in town, where we'd stayed a few nights before, was fully booked.