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Where To Stay In Kiev, Ukraine
By Yevgen Tel, Thu Dec 8th
/p> Are you planning a trip to Kiev, Ukraine? If so, you may bewondering whether it is better to stay in a Kiev hotel or rentan apartment in Kiev. The purpose of this brief article is tolist here some of the factors that will hopefully help you takethe decision right for you. Staying in Kiev hotels
Kiev hotels vary in quality and prices. Daily rates for some ofthem start from around USD50 per night, but usually hotelswithin this price category are located outside Kiev downtown andhave pretty Soviet-like style. The average hotel rooms costabout USD100 per night and provide major amenities that you mayneed while in Kiev - room with a bathroom and hot water,telephone line, satellite or cable TV. More expensive hotels canprovide high speed Internet and other nice amenities like hotelgym or nice swimming pool. Charge for some Kiev hotels includesbreakfasts that may be pretty convenient way to start your day.The daily rates for some of the most expensive Kiev hotels arearound USD500 per night.
Advantage of staying in a Kiev hotel is the ability to check-outany day you wish or extend your stay for as long as you want.Also, every-day cleaning, room service, some in-houserestaurants, cafés, gyms, swimming pools can be a nice thing tohave around. Disadvantages include relatively high price for asmall space you are getting, and low privacy. Staying in Kiev apartments
Renting an apartment in Kiev is becoming increasingly popularamong foreign guests to Kiev. Kiev apartments provide a lot ofspace (one-bedroom, two-bedroom or even three-bedroomapartments), excellent western-standard renovation, variety ofamenities. All of Kiev apartments have telephone lines, cableTV, fridge, oven, kitchen with everything you may need to avoidexpensive Kiev restaurants. Many apartments have satellite TVwith numerous international channels, air-conditioning,CD-players, DVD-players. Some apartments have high-speedInternet or Jacuzzi.
Prices for Kiev apartments vary depending on the amenities andthe exact location of any specific apartment. In particular,apartments in the very center of Kiev near Khreshatik St. andIndependence Square are much more expensive than those furtherfrom Khreshatik or in other areas of Kiev. Accordingly, ratesfor the apartments vary considerably depending on those factors.The least expensive one-room apartments outside Kiev center canbe available at the rates starting around USD30 per night, themost expensive luxury apartments can cost up to USD300 pernight. The average rates are around USD60 for a studio,USD80-100 for a one-bedroom apartment, USD120-130 for atwo-bedroom apartment. The above rates tend to change and may bedifferent at the time you are reading this article.
There are no two Kiev apartments alike. It is not a hotel whereyou book one of the rooms which are all nearly the same. All ofKiev apartments are unique. Though, it is obviously an asset ofapartments, it has also some downsides. In particular, it may behard (if not impossible at all) to change the dates of yourstay. For example, if you want to extend your stay in theapartment for a few days more, the apartment may already bebooked by someone else. On the other hand, if you want to leavethe apartment earlier, you will be required to cover for thewhole period of your booking anyway, since the apartment waskept for you, and all other clients interested in the same dateswere refused. The above disadvantages can be easily eliminatedby more careful and thorough planning of the exact dates ofstay.
The same uniqueness of the apartments causes anotherinconvenience. Landlords of good apartments are reluctant tocommit to bookings shorter than five nights. If someone agreesto book an apartment for a shorter period, it often means thatthey will accommodate you in any apartment available at the dateof your arrival. One-three night stays are not attractive forapartment landlords and agencies at all, so they will hardly beable to book anything specific. Exception is the situation whenthere is a few day opening between other bookings that fits thedates you are interested in. Four-night stays are somewhere onthe edge. The agencies may book a specific apartment, but thereis always a chance that its landlord will let the agency downand do not keep the apartment for such a short period.
In order to book a Kiev apartment, you will be required
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toprovide a booking deposit in the amount equal to a one-nightstay or a higher amount depending on each particular apartmentand the length of your stay.
Availability of specific apartments is changing very fast, andsome agencies have availability calendar with bookings a fewmonths in advance. So, it is always good idea to book anapartment well in advance, at least three or four weeks beforeyour trip.
Those are basically the major things to keep in mind whenchoosing between a stay in Kiev apartments or Kiev hotels.Regardless of what kind of accommodation you choose, you willenjoy your stay in this beautiful European city with so manythings to offer to its visitors. About the author:Yevgen Tel is the manager of one of the oldest and mostreputable apartment rental services in Kiev - ApartmentRentals Kyiv. The company has been providing decentapartments in Kiev for rent since 1998 and has thousands ofsatisfied customers worldwide. For more information on Kievapartments you may visit one of on-line projects of the company- Kiev Apartmentsfor Rent | |
