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The hotels below have been grouped into four different pricing categories:
$$$$ (over Rb9,000)
$$$ (Rb6,000 to Rb9,000)
$$ (Rb3,000 to Rb6,000)
$ (up to Rb3,000)
These prices are the starting prices for a standard double room. They include VAT but not sales tax or breakfast, unless otherwise specified.
All hotels accept roubles; all the hotels listed here also accept major credit cards and US dollars. Hotels are subject to VAT (18%), which is usually included in the room rate but can sometimes be added to the bill at the end instead. Hotels may also add sales tax of 5% to the bill. Hotels also often quote prices in ‘units' roughly equal to one euro or 30 roubles which can be a disadvantage depending on the exchange rate, which is often higher.
$$$$ (over Rb9,000)
$$$ (Rb6,000 to Rb9,000)
$$ (Rb3,000 to Rb6,000)
$ (up to Rb3,000)
These prices are the starting prices for a standard double room. They include VAT but not sales tax or breakfast, unless otherwise specified.
All hotels accept roubles; all the hotels listed here also accept major credit cards and US dollars. Hotels are subject to VAT (18%), which is usually included in the room rate but can sometimes be added to the bill at the end instead. Hotels may also add sales tax of 5% to the bill. Hotels also often quote prices in ‘units' roughly equal to one euro or 30 roubles which can be a disadvantage depending on the exchange rate, which is often higher.
Business
Heliopark Empire
This reasonably priced business hotel is conveniently located just off ulitsa Tverskaya, five minutes' walk from Belorusskaya station, and offers 33 pleasantly decorated clean rooms with Wi-Fi access, satellite TV and minibar. It has full business and conference facilities including meeting rooms and translation services. Its pleasant restaurant Square, kitted out with orange walls hung with oil paintings and leather backed sofas, has attempted to recreate the feel of a gentleman's club and offers ‘English and French' cuisine around the clock. Additional 24-hour room service can also be ordered.
Brestskaya ulitsa 61
Tel: (495) 251 6413.
Website: www.empire.heliopark.ru
Price: $$$
This reasonably priced business hotel is conveniently located just off ulitsa Tverskaya, five minutes' walk from Belorusskaya station, and offers 33 pleasantly decorated clean rooms with Wi-Fi access, satellite TV and minibar. It has full business and conference facilities including meeting rooms and translation services. Its pleasant restaurant Square, kitted out with orange walls hung with oil paintings and leather backed sofas, has attempted to recreate the feel of a gentleman's club and offers ‘English and French' cuisine around the clock. Additional 24-hour room service can also be ordered.
Brestskaya ulitsa 61
Tel: (495) 251 6413.
Website: www.empire.heliopark.ru
Price: $$$
Hotel Cosmos
Situated near a national nature reserve and botanical gardens, Cosmos is hardly the most central hotel but it is still one of the best value business-class hotels in Moscow. This bronze-coloured, 26-storey semi-circular grand hotel was built in 1979 by French architects to house athletes and officials during the Moscow Olympics. It has 1,777 rooms, suites and apartments, each with en-suite bathroom, satellite TV and mini-bar. The hotel has a 24-hour business centre and a conference hall for up to 1,000 people with facilities for simultaneous translation. The hotel also has many excellent bars and restaurants, as well as good fitness and leisure facilities to help its guests relax.
Prospekt Mira 150
Tel: (495) 234 1000.
Website: www.hotelcosmos.ru
Price: $$$
Situated near a national nature reserve and botanical gardens, Cosmos is hardly the most central hotel but it is still one of the best value business-class hotels in Moscow. This bronze-coloured, 26-storey semi-circular grand hotel was built in 1979 by French architects to house athletes and officials during the Moscow Olympics. It has 1,777 rooms, suites and apartments, each with en-suite bathroom, satellite TV and mini-bar. The hotel has a 24-hour business centre and a conference hall for up to 1,000 people with facilities for simultaneous translation. The hotel also has many excellent bars and restaurants, as well as good fitness and leisure facilities to help its guests relax.
Prospekt Mira 150
Tel: (495) 234 1000.
Website: www.hotelcosmos.ru
Price: $$$
Marriott Tverskaya
One of the grander business hotels in central Moscow, the Marriott Tverskaya is a slightly less showy version of its sister hotel further down the street. All 162 luxuriously appointed rooms have Wi-Fi access (also available in the public areas and meeting rooms). There are 36 two-room business suites for extended stays with a microwave, mini-bar, coffee-maker and DVD player. The English-speaking concierge service is impeccable - assisting with everything from booking theatre tickets and the hotel's conference facilities, which can host up to 120 people, to organising hosted boat excursions on the Moscow river. The hotel also has 24-hour room service and a business centre. Restaurant Gratz serves Italian/Mediterranean food from 1200-2230 and the lobby bar is open all day until 0200.
Pervaya Tverskaya - Yamskaya 34
Tel: (495) 258 3000.
Website: http://marriott.com
Price: $$$$
One of the grander business hotels in central Moscow, the Marriott Tverskaya is a slightly less showy version of its sister hotel further down the street. All 162 luxuriously appointed rooms have Wi-Fi access (also available in the public areas and meeting rooms). There are 36 two-room business suites for extended stays with a microwave, mini-bar, coffee-maker and DVD player. The English-speaking concierge service is impeccable - assisting with everything from booking theatre tickets and the hotel's conference facilities, which can host up to 120 people, to organising hosted boat excursions on the Moscow river. The hotel also has 24-hour room service and a business centre. Restaurant Gratz serves Italian/Mediterranean food from 1200-2230 and the lobby bar is open all day until 0200.
Pervaya Tverskaya - Yamskaya 34
Tel: (495) 258 3000.
Website: http://marriott.com
Price: $$$$
Novotel Moscow Centre
Novotel Moscow is all that you would expect from an international chain of business hotels, with neat and clean rooms and some English-speaking staff. The hotel, which opened in 2002, is not as central as some of the more expensive hotels catering to business clients, but it is conveniently located in the north of the capital and is close to the metro, which will take you to the heart of the city within minutes. There is Wi-Fi access in the rooms and 24-hour room service should you have missed the hotel's restaurant which is open until 2330. There are five conference rooms with a total capacity of 250, and the hotel can also provide a business support staff, including typing, printing and fax services.
Novoslobodskaya ulitsa 23
Tel: (495) 780 4000.
Website: www.novotel.com
Price: $$$
Novotel Moscow is all that you would expect from an international chain of business hotels, with neat and clean rooms and some English-speaking staff. The hotel, which opened in 2002, is not as central as some of the more expensive hotels catering to business clients, but it is conveniently located in the north of the capital and is close to the metro, which will take you to the heart of the city within minutes. There is Wi-Fi access in the rooms and 24-hour room service should you have missed the hotel's restaurant which is open until 2330. There are five conference rooms with a total capacity of 250, and the hotel can also provide a business support staff, including typing, printing and fax services.
Novoslobodskaya ulitsa 23
Tel: (495) 780 4000.
Website: www.novotel.com
Price: $$$
Luxury
Hotel Baltschug Kempinski
This five-star hotel, dating back to 1898, is a very popular, although not cheap, venue for rich tourists and businesspeople on a flexible expense account. It offers state-of-the-art facilities, including Wi-Fi and e-mail-enabled satellite TV in each of its rooms. Its plush ballroom can be used as a conference facility for up to 200 delegates, while there are many other smaller meeting rooms. Many rooms have great views of the Kremlin, St Basil's Cathedral and Red Square. The public areas are stylish, spacious and modern, while the efficient German-led service is typical Kempinski.
Balchug ulitsa 1
Tel: (495) 230 6500.
Website: www.kempinski-moscow.com
Price: $$$$
This five-star hotel, dating back to 1898, is a very popular, although not cheap, venue for rich tourists and businesspeople on a flexible expense account. It offers state-of-the-art facilities, including Wi-Fi and e-mail-enabled satellite TV in each of its rooms. Its plush ballroom can be used as a conference facility for up to 200 delegates, while there are many other smaller meeting rooms. Many rooms have great views of the Kremlin, St Basil's Cathedral and Red Square. The public areas are stylish, spacious and modern, while the efficient German-led service is typical Kempinski.
Balchug ulitsa 1
Tel: (495) 230 6500.
Website: www.kempinski-moscow.com
Price: $$$$
Swissôtel Krasnye Holmy
The multi-award-winning Swissôtel Krasnye Holmy offers sleek and stylish rooms and suites across 34-floors. The hotel overlooks the Moscow river and the Kremlin and St Basil's to the north. The Concerto restaurant offers good quality Italian food but there are several other bars to sate your thirst - the best of these by far is City Space bar - one of the handful of places in Moscow to savour the city's dramatic and fast changing skyline. Every room has Wi-Fi access. The hotel has excellent conference facilities - but should you be on holiday or have time off between business meetings, head for the Amrita Spa for a swim, massage, sauna or workout.
Kosmodamianskaya Naberezhnaya 52
Tel: (495) 787 9800.
Website: www.swissotel.com
Price: $$$$
The multi-award-winning Swissôtel Krasnye Holmy offers sleek and stylish rooms and suites across 34-floors. The hotel overlooks the Moscow river and the Kremlin and St Basil's to the north. The Concerto restaurant offers good quality Italian food but there are several other bars to sate your thirst - the best of these by far is City Space bar - one of the handful of places in Moscow to savour the city's dramatic and fast changing skyline. Every room has Wi-Fi access. The hotel has excellent conference facilities - but should you be on holiday or have time off between business meetings, head for the Amrita Spa for a swim, massage, sauna or workout.
Kosmodamianskaya Naberezhnaya 52
Tel: (495) 787 9800.
Website: www.swissotel.com
Price: $$$$
Moderate
Hotel Akvarel
Hotel Akvarel is one of Moscow's few small business-class hotels that represent real value for money in the world's most expensive city. It has 23 clean and comfortable rooms that should look more contemporary given that the hotel only opened in 2002, although small details such as watercolours on the corridor walls save the hotel from banality. This is an ideal hotel for those on a budget or restricted expense account who want to mix business with pleasure. It location )5 minutes from Red Square) means it really is unbeatable as a base for sightseeing while the hotel also provides full business facilities. As a business traveller, the only downside is the lack of Wi-Fi access in the meeting rooms (although there are modem ports). And for tourists the lack of a restaurant or room service may be a snag. But this deficiency of services is more than compensated for by the friendliness of the staff, the location and price, which includes breakfast.
Stoleshnikov pereulok 12/3
Tel: (495) 502 9430.
Website: www.hotelakvarel.ru
Price: $$$
Hotel Akvarel is one of Moscow's few small business-class hotels that represent real value for money in the world's most expensive city. It has 23 clean and comfortable rooms that should look more contemporary given that the hotel only opened in 2002, although small details such as watercolours on the corridor walls save the hotel from banality. This is an ideal hotel for those on a budget or restricted expense account who want to mix business with pleasure. It location )5 minutes from Red Square) means it really is unbeatable as a base for sightseeing while the hotel also provides full business facilities. As a business traveller, the only downside is the lack of Wi-Fi access in the meeting rooms (although there are modem ports). And for tourists the lack of a restaurant or room service may be a snag. But this deficiency of services is more than compensated for by the friendliness of the staff, the location and price, which includes breakfast.
Stoleshnikov pereulok 12/3
Tel: (495) 502 9430.
Website: www.hotelakvarel.ru
Price: $$$
Pekin Hotel
Do not be deceived by the garish flashing lights on the front of this building - it really is a hotel and not one of Moscow's many and very tacky casinos. But its history is possibly as colourful as its façade. It was built in 1956 as a 'little sister' to Stalin's Seven Sister skyscrapers and intended as a postwar headquarters for the secret police. It was never used for this purpose and the only clue to its intended design, except arguably the brusque attitude of some of the staff, are the lights over the doors meant to indicate when interrogations were in progress. But rather than dwelling on the Pekin's past, concentrate on hotels' brilliantly central location: overlooking a statue of Mayakovsky, the Soviet-era cheerleading poet of the revolution in Triumphalnaya Square. From here it is a 15-minute walk to Red Square along ulitsa Tverskaya and past Pushkin Square. Some of the best value restaurants are within easy striking distance too. The hotel was renovated in 2002 but the Stalin-era neoclassical style continues throughout the interior with high ceilings, marble staircases and parquet flooring. Its 100 slightly old-fashioned rooms are comfortable, with satellite TV and en suite bathrooms.
Sadovaya Boulevard 5/1
Tel: (495) 650 2215.
Website: www.hotelpekin.ru
Price: $$
Do not be deceived by the garish flashing lights on the front of this building - it really is a hotel and not one of Moscow's many and very tacky casinos. But its history is possibly as colourful as its façade. It was built in 1956 as a 'little sister' to Stalin's Seven Sister skyscrapers and intended as a postwar headquarters for the secret police. It was never used for this purpose and the only clue to its intended design, except arguably the brusque attitude of some of the staff, are the lights over the doors meant to indicate when interrogations were in progress. But rather than dwelling on the Pekin's past, concentrate on hotels' brilliantly central location: overlooking a statue of Mayakovsky, the Soviet-era cheerleading poet of the revolution in Triumphalnaya Square. From here it is a 15-minute walk to Red Square along ulitsa Tverskaya and past Pushkin Square. Some of the best value restaurants are within easy striking distance too. The hotel was renovated in 2002 but the Stalin-era neoclassical style continues throughout the interior with high ceilings, marble staircases and parquet flooring. Its 100 slightly old-fashioned rooms are comfortable, with satellite TV and en suite bathrooms.
Sadovaya Boulevard 5/1
Tel: (495) 650 2215.
Website: www.hotelpekin.ru
Price: $$
Other Recommendations
Golden Apple
The opening of the Golden Apple in 2004 marked a milestone in Moscow accommodation as the city finally got its first European standard boutique hotel. The trendy, but refreshingly relaxed bar takes up almost the whole of the lobby, which rather prevents any real atmosphere from developing even though it is open around the clock. A huge golden apple is the centrepiece of the lobby. The staff is very friendly and speaks excellent English. The minimal design of the rooms is cosier than you might think thanks to thoughtful lighting. The restaurant (open 1700-2300) makes a big effort to offer a good range on the menu. There is also Wi-Fi access in each room and a gym and sauna. Unfortunately, because this is the only hotel of its kind for the time being, it is perhaps more expensive than it deserves to be.
Malaya Dimitrovka 11
Tel: (495) 980 7000.
Website: www.goldenapple.ru
Price: $$$$
The opening of the Golden Apple in 2004 marked a milestone in Moscow accommodation as the city finally got its first European standard boutique hotel. The trendy, but refreshingly relaxed bar takes up almost the whole of the lobby, which rather prevents any real atmosphere from developing even though it is open around the clock. A huge golden apple is the centrepiece of the lobby. The staff is very friendly and speaks excellent English. The minimal design of the rooms is cosier than you might think thanks to thoughtful lighting. The restaurant (open 1700-2300) makes a big effort to offer a good range on the menu. There is also Wi-Fi access in each room and a gym and sauna. Unfortunately, because this is the only hotel of its kind for the time being, it is perhaps more expensive than it deserves to be.
Malaya Dimitrovka 11
Tel: (495) 980 7000.
Website: www.goldenapple.ru
Price: $$$$
Ritz Carlton
The latest addition to its growing collection of genuinely 5-star hotels in Moscow is the Ritz Carlton. It opened in 2007 on the site of the former Intourist hotel, ideally located at the bottom of Tverskaya Street. Potential tourists, Muscovites and architects from around the world must have breathed a sigh of relief to see the former concrete eyesore at the bottom of Tverksaya demolished to make way for this beautiful hotel that combines a modern steel and glass atrium entrance with a neoclassical design for the main building. It has 334 rooms, some of which are the biggest in the city. Expect luxurious but classic furnishings with polished dark cherry woods and bathrooms of marble from the Altai mountains. As well as Wi-Fi in every room, full business and conference facilities, the hotel has an ultra-exclusive club level separated from the main hotel.
Ulitsa Tverskaya 3-5
Tel: (495) 225 8888.
Website: www.ritzcarlton.com
Price: $$$$
The latest addition to its growing collection of genuinely 5-star hotels in Moscow is the Ritz Carlton. It opened in 2007 on the site of the former Intourist hotel, ideally located at the bottom of Tverskaya Street. Potential tourists, Muscovites and architects from around the world must have breathed a sigh of relief to see the former concrete eyesore at the bottom of Tverksaya demolished to make way for this beautiful hotel that combines a modern steel and glass atrium entrance with a neoclassical design for the main building. It has 334 rooms, some of which are the biggest in the city. Expect luxurious but classic furnishings with polished dark cherry woods and bathrooms of marble from the Altai mountains. As well as Wi-Fi in every room, full business and conference facilities, the hotel has an ultra-exclusive club level separated from the main hotel.
Ulitsa Tverskaya 3-5
Tel: (495) 225 8888.
Website: www.ritzcarlton.com
Price: $$$$
Savoy
Moscow's Savoy is a gem of a hotel just a few minutes' walk from Red Square. It was thoughtfully restorated in 2005. The Hermitage bar has a rather quirky feel to it with comfy sofas alongside kitsch leopard print armchairs. Experimentalism with the interior design however, begins and ends in the bar. The lobby's creamy marble floors and frescoes with polished brass and gold leaf detail are followed by more of the same conservatism in the rooms. The furniture and gold-plated light fittings hark back to when its original owners, the Salamander Fire Insurance Company, first opened the doors hotel in 1913. The salamander motif recurring throughout the hotel (on bath towels, friezes and even at the bottom of the wonderful pool) is that of the insurance company. The Savoy is the first hotel in Russia to become a member of the prestigious ‘Small Luxury Hotels of the World' group and the quality of service and friendliness of most staff is reflected in this. Richard Gere, Jane Fonda, Ted Turner and Cindy Crawford are said to have stayed here. In addition to full conference and business facilities, the hotel has an excellent sauna (which can be hired privately for two) gym and swimming pool.
Rozhdestvenka 3/6 b1
Tel: (495) 620 8500.
Website: www.savoy.ru
Price: $$$$
Moscow's Savoy is a gem of a hotel just a few minutes' walk from Red Square. It was thoughtfully restorated in 2005. The Hermitage bar has a rather quirky feel to it with comfy sofas alongside kitsch leopard print armchairs. Experimentalism with the interior design however, begins and ends in the bar. The lobby's creamy marble floors and frescoes with polished brass and gold leaf detail are followed by more of the same conservatism in the rooms. The furniture and gold-plated light fittings hark back to when its original owners, the Salamander Fire Insurance Company, first opened the doors hotel in 1913. The salamander motif recurring throughout the hotel (on bath towels, friezes and even at the bottom of the wonderful pool) is that of the insurance company. The Savoy is the first hotel in Russia to become a member of the prestigious ‘Small Luxury Hotels of the World' group and the quality of service and friendliness of most staff is reflected in this. Richard Gere, Jane Fonda, Ted Turner and Cindy Crawford are said to have stayed here. In addition to full conference and business facilities, the hotel has an excellent sauna (which can be hired privately for two) gym and swimming pool.
Rozhdestvenka 3/6 b1
Tel: (495) 620 8500.
Website: www.savoy.ru
Price: $$$$
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