A Jethwa
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Stayed for 2 nights in 2 rooms on the mezzanine floor, party including 2 small children.
+ Excellent location - short walk to central train station, fortification and promenade
+ Staff - an asset to this hotel - recpetion staff always accommodating and striving to help in even the slightest way, housekeeping were less helpful though
+ food - breakfast, fika and dinner all of good quality - didn't have a bad meal here
- rooms - very stuffy (no AC), very dated, very bare and not the most spacious
- accessibility - the central elevator was permanently broken, leaving only one small functional elevator on the left side of the hotel for all guests, which was very slow. The hotel also has an unusual format, probably due to it's history/age, in that there are stairs to negotiate even after using the elevator which doesn't make it pram-accessible at all - I feel this should be clearly advertised online to avoid disappointment as it may influence booking
- if you want to store your luggage, you have to make it down 2 flights on stairs to the basement and do the same back up again when you want to collect your luggage again
- breakfast was over-crowded and frantic and could have been improved by a reservation system, to avoid people walking around aimlessly to find tables. Also rather unsafe navigating narrow aisles with hot drinks and plates of food with kids and waiting staff hastily walking around at the same time
- noise - stayed over a weekend and music/conservational noise until early hours definitely affected sleep quality
Overall, I found aspects of the hotel very good, but not sufficiently so to consider booking again, especially if accessibility was key.