I organized an event with international guests visiting Bulgaria and selected the hotel for its convenient location to Sofia airport. This is really a strong advantage of the hotel as it is less then an hour drive from Sofia. First impressions were excellent as the view from the lobby and the surrounding area is spectacular. The interiors of the hotel were also recently renovated and were very modern and stylish. We really liked the size of the rooms as well the furnishing in them. The conference room that we used was on the small side but was just fitting for our needs. All of the positives listed above, however, were cancelled by the absolutely worst service I have experienced in a hotel of this rank. I was shocked by everyone's grumpy and unprofessional attitude. What surprised me is that this was not a few people but everyone that we had to interact with from the staff (from the receptionist, through the staff in the restaurants to managers of restaurants, etc.). My only explanation is that they did not have proper trainings but even if so, this is completely unacceptable. For everything that we asked we received a "No" answer straight away, sometime not even waiting for us to finish with the question / request. The lady at the lobby bar got almost aggressive when we asked for splitting the bill in 3 and putting it on different rooms. The behavior of the manager of the "new" restaurant was completely unprofessional, the gentlemen serving there was also extremely rude, explaining that he does not care about the hotel and that the restaurant is his only job to do, when asked some basic questions. Manager of the "standard" restaurant was also rather unprepared and mostly unwilling to respond to any of our requests. The only normal interaction that we had was with some waiters that showed some genuine care but most of the time were very inexperienced to support. It is really a pity that such a nice infrastructure, interiors and location can be completely ruined by the level of the service. Hopefully they can improve, but for sure I will not be back any time soon.
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