Hotel Montana

Had a one night stay here during a two week road trip through Romania. We stayed at 10 different hotels over 15 days and hotel Montana was the worst by a country mile. When we turned up at around 4pm the reception area was in darkness with a note asking you to ring a mobile number. We did, and we were still left for 15+ minutes waiting. When we were eventually checked in we were given a room and it looked like it had last been decorated in the 1970s. It was tired, beyond basic. The carpet was patched, the furniture decrepit. It felt nasty. The lights were off in the corridor outside the room so that too was in darkness, plus the fire exit and fire extinguisher was completely blocked by the big pile of camp beds and sheets they had shoved there. Adding insult to injury we had a power cut, not to the entire building, just to the floor we were on. They struggled to access the fuse box to check for the issue because it was behind all those beds they had shoved in the corridor. Eventually we were moved to a different room which was a twin rather than a double, but circumstances with the electric left us with little choice. This room was even worse - the light switches were missing their covers and everything was pretty much on its last legs. The dining area was pretty grubby with broken chairs still in use (just covered with a cushion), cigarette burns in seat covers. The place had the vibe of a public bar catering to a young crowd in cheap and cheerful. On the upside the staff were polite and helpful - I suspect they were grossly understaffed. Plus the food was good, I didn't think it would be but I was happy to be proven wrong. Over all nothing could make me agree to stay in this hotel ever again. Fortunately the other 9 hotels I stayed in proved that Hotel Montana is not representative of Romania in general.