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All is suave contemporary correctness at this enviably located luxury hotel whose Panorama Bar overlooks the square of the Bolshoi Theatre. The cleverly designed atrium avoids the usual airport concourse feel and the lobby is actually a pleasant place to meet your colleagues. Part-financed by Armenian magnates, the hotel occupies a spot once favoured by Armenian intellectuals (and others) as a café. Although everything else in the hotel is high-tech, one tiny corner of traditionalism remains in the Armenian café adjoining the main lobby. Its sumptuous (yet remarkably mid-priced) cuisine is prepared by the former chef of the president of Armenia, who was head-hunted for the hotel.
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Golden Apple is Moscow’s only candidate for hip hotel status, but while the post-modernist designs (and the Golden Apple itself, which fills the entire lobby) meet the criteria with aplomb, there’s still something slightly creaky about the management style. Russians just don’t do laid-back/relaxed very well, though it isn’t for lack of trying, and they’ve set themselves a high target here which they may well hit. In the heart of theatre-land they clearly pitch at a luvvy clientele. LenKom Theatre is around the corner, Novaya Opera on the next street and the area throbs with the louche lounges beloved of the smart, moneyed, young set.
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Accor Group’s city centre offering (it has another at Scheremetyevo Airport) is discreet and proper, and fits alongside a prestigious Arts Complex at the same [address]. Without the punch that world-famous sights from the windows can give, this is a business hotel centred on doing business, substance instead of swank. Mendeleevskaya metro is two steps from the hotel, putting Pushkin Square and the Kremlin (Borovitskaya) within five minutes. Five conference rooms can seat up to 238 attendees.
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