Our tour selected this hotel as it is so handy for the railway station. It's a big Soviet style hotel that has been fully refurbished and it can get pretty busy at reception if a train has come in. Nevertheless, our check-in receptionist got us checked in quickly, got our wifi sorted as we didn't have a Russian mobile so she used her phone to register us, and our room was on the 13th floor which gave a great view of the city's stupendous and beautiful train station. Breakfast was amazing; Russian champagne!!!! and a lovely Crimean herbal tea. The Cinema restaurant setting is nice too. Friendly staff let us store our bags before our onward train. It's a good choice if you are passing through and it's not at all far from the majestic boulevards of the central part of the city.