BEWARE — Don’t Stay Here, and Definitely Don’t Eat Here
We stay at a lot of hotels, and I genuinely hate leaving negative reviews, but unfortunately Hotel Emen deserves this one.
The only real pros were the location and the live music — which, interestingly enough, was also the only time we really saw people in the restaurant.
From the moment we arrived, things were off. While we were literally checking in, a mouse ran through the lobby. We actually laughed it off and gave them the benefit of the doubt because of the location and the alleyways around the Old Town. That alone would NOT have caused me to leave a bad review.
Then we got to the room.
For approximately $245 per night, the room was nowhere near the standard we expected. There was no real shower, the sink was falling apart, the towels felt like sandpaper, there were spiders on the walls near the lights, a dead fly smashed onto the wall, and other unknown marks/goo on the walls. The blankets were basically sheets. The only toiletries were a bar of soap and some shampoo that had a strange odor.
The balcony was nice, but part of the ceiling/room slopes down so much that you constantly have to remember to duck or risk hitting your head.
Then came the “free breakfast,” and this was probably the worst part.
The eggs were discolored/green, the cucumbers and tomatoes looked dried out as though they had been sitting uncovered in a refrigerator for days, and our bread basket appeared to have been re-served from anothe