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AST-Gof is not at all central, but would be of interest to anyone whose business in Moscow involves the Expo Centre, as it is the nearest acceptable hotel to the exhibition site (although still not close). Rooms are clean and tidy in the Scandinavian style and multilingual helpful staff work at reception— everything you’d expect in a three-star hotel, in fact. There is an attractive park directly opposite the hotel, which is 10 minutes’ walk from Bagrationovskaya metro. One meeting room is available.
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Only one thing has saved this grim hotel from long-promised demolition: its sheer ugly enormity puts the project beyond the budget of even the average Russian oligarch. Bumbling incompetence and barely concealed rudeness greet the unlucky guest whose only reward is a super location overlooking St Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square. With no renovation since its construction in 1967, the asking price is still less than $100 for standard rooms. Demolition is now scheduled for 2006, but if this fails, the Rossiya could have a future as a prison or a boot camp. Up to 200 delegates can be incarcerated in the largest of its three conference halls.
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One of the two 'Seven Sisters’ Stalinist high-rise landmarks that serves as a hotel. Located directly opposite the White House, journalists covering Yeltsin’s bombardment of Parliament had a bird’s-eye view from its windows. Moderate prices are one appeal of this hotel, Soviet-retro design is the other, with rooms featuring random colour schemes that include red curtains, brown walls, green bed covers and purple swirly carpets. There is no Metro station within feasible walking distance and there are almost no business facilities in the hotel.
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