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Reviews of Art Hotel Simona

3 out of 5
Art Hotel Simona
Inzhener Ivan Ivanov 10 Blvd., Sofia

Reviews

7.8

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 22 out of 79 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 36 out of 79 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 13 out of 79 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 6 out of 79 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 79 reviews" "

8.0/10

Cleanliness

8.4/10

Staff & service

9.0/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Margarita

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Pero

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020
Response from Irina Krumova on 4 Sept 2020
Thank you for positive feedback!

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019
Response from IK on 21 Aug 2019
Thank you for positive feedback!

8/10 Good

S, United Kingdom

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good breakfast but away from centre and no direct transport to centre: spacious rooms
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018
Response from irina krumova on 17 Apr 2019
Thank you for positive feedback!

10/10 Excellent

Omar

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A very nice place to stay for few days, the stuff are very nice too
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Room comfort
It's not what I expected. the area lucia unsafe and noisy.
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice hotel, a bit far from town. Great breakfast. Rooms a bit noisy, not enough soundproofing
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

donna, canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
ok hotel with nice staff, no hot water one day but otherwise all working, good breakfast in am and easy parking at hotel door. nice supper too at restaurant there. tram to downtown just a short walk away
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice spot in Sofia
A quiet hotel a few minutes in tram/metro of the center of Sofia. Rooms have the bare essentials, but the hotel staff is very helpful and the restaurant really rocks (plus is open 24/7)
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Spacious comfortable room but no hairdryer and not as central or local as expected
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018

8/10 Good

MC, United States

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pros: Hip hotel with cool art all over. Nice clean room, nice helpful staff at the lobby. Food in the restaurant was excellent and fairly priced. Con: There is a cool rooftop area with murals and graffiti art and nice views, I went up to the roof and was rudely kicked out by staff. I mean why have art up there if you hotel guests can't even enjoy it?
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice interesting hotel
We had a very nice stay at this hotel. The location for us was perfect, a few minutes walk to the metro and the only two stops to the centre of the city. All the staff we very friendly and helpfully. The receptionist kindly ordered us a taxi for early in the morning. The food in the hotel was delicious and well priced.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2018
Response from Irina Krumova - Front office on 17 May 2018
Thanks for staying with us. We appreciate your feedback!

10/10 Excellent

Mr Alan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel Art Simona
Second visit to the hotel and once again not dissapointed.Front desk could not be more helpfull. Food is of a high standard indeed. Simply love the place.Will visit again.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Keefybeefy , England

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very friendly hotel
Very friendly hotel and excellent value. Breakfast surprisingly good and evening meals in the restaurant also good standard and available around the clock. A little too far from centre to walk but taxis cheap and plentiful. Surrounding area not attractive and not much to see but irrelevant to our stay as we ate in the restaurant or city centre. Recommend for excellent budget stay. Funky artistic rooms.

8/10 Good

Julian, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable hotel close to centre of Sofia
Very much enjoyed my stay at Art Hotel Simona and was glad to have chosen this hotel. It has modern bright rooms, all of them decorated in different artwork. The staff were helpful and enjoyed a nice breakfast. Also had some meals in the restaurant which were good value. The hotel is situated about a 12 or 15 min walk (or a tram ride) to the nearest metro station where it is 2 stops into the city centre.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel
The hotel was very clean and comfortable but the location was a bit disappointing as it was like being in the middle of the M25 and very noisy with traffic so we were not able to leave the window open overnight as it was very noisy so we had to use the air conditioning unit instead.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Mina, Egypt

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good
Simple and nice hotel, located in good area close to Konstantin Velichkov subway station, around 10 min walking area to this station which is 2-3 stations away from the city center and main sightseeing areas. Breakfast was basic and good, room was clean and comfortable.

4/10 Poor

Katya, Varna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The restauran wasn't good!
The restaurant wasn't good! The plates, the food, the wine...And the WiFi....too poor

10/10 Excellent

Hans Jakup

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Emily, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Don't Be Put Off By First Impressions
Coming from Western Europe the area looks run down, and the hotel doesn't look great from the outside. But actually it's fine once inside, and I had no problem walking the streets alone at night as a single woman. The cheapest rooms are not as nicely decorated as the photos show - Pretty basic but fine for the price. Walls are thin though, and no bedside lamp! Breakfast is rather basic, and doesn't seem to get replenished so better go down early. Would have liked tea/coffee making facilities in room, that was the only thing that was really lacking.

10/10 Excellent

Asen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

paul, setques

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
home comfort in arctic conditions
Despite heavy snow very warm welcome with hot meaty soup

8/10 Good

Cindy, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Not perfect, but I would stay again
It is the people that make this a great place to stay. All of the front desk personnel were absolutely fabulous and went out of their way to get me information. The restaurant staff were great for the most part, as were the cleaning personnel. I had to switch rooms part way through my stay. My first room was quite large, but the colour scheme left the room a bit drab feeling. The colour of the carpet made it feel as though it wasn't clean, even though I am pretty sure it was. The second room, though significantly smaller, was much cheerier. I didn't enjoy the breakfast very much, but others seemed to. The free coffee with breakfast was terrible, but for an additional charge, you can order a specialty coffee. My main complaint with the hotel would be the lack of hairdryers. Not sure if there are any hairdryers in other rooms, but both I stayed in didn't have any. You can borrow a blowdryer from the front desk, but they only had one, so often someone else would be using it. The location was not bad. To get to the centre, one must take a tram and a metro, but it doesn't take long. There is a large, beautiful park across the street from the hotel. I would recommend ensuring you have the address in Bulgarian if you are planning on taking a taxi. I only had the address in English, and it took taxi drivers (I needed 2 during my stay) a bit to figure out where it was. All in all, I did enjoy my stay and would stay here again when in Sofia.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
One night stay at Hotel Simona
It is a nice and preasant hotel. The food in the restaurant was very tasty. The room was clean.

6/10 Okay

Marian, Toronto

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
The reception service was great, they were very friendly, however we were excited to get an art room, as the site pictures. We were willing to pay more, there was no option and we got just a regular plain one, and it felt like false advertising. The restuarant was very full and noisy, we were served by a very nice gentelman, but there were two other lady servers who seemed stressed and were yelling at him and each other in the middle of the floor, it was very unprofessional.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Artotel- Less art, more guest house.
The customer care from the hotel staff was excellent. However, the rooms and particularly the corridors on hotel floors could use an upgrade. The breakfast was decent.

10/10 Excellent

Winifred, Ilkley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bulgaria trip in Oct 2015
Out of town but soon fell in love with the hotel staff on reception were very friendly and couldn't do enough to help the rooms were very nice and art themed I loved it that much I returned for another stay at the end of my trip the restaurant was very smart and food was lovely and very reasonably priced all in all it was every thing and more than I could have hoped for would and will definitately return

10/10 Excellent

Razvan, Iași

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect!!!!

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location for tram and metro great restaurant
Friendly staff and nice hotel great price breakfasts were same each day but ok beds were comfy studio was large and had air conditioning smaller rooms were great also and wifi was fast

10/10 Excellent

Vessela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Personnel impeccable
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

Adriano

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Hotel no meio do nada.
Hotel esquisito, fica no meio do nada, muito distante do centro de Sofia. A limpeza do quarto é sofrível (o abajur do quarto deve ter sido limpo pela última vez uns "3 meses" antes da minha hospedagem), o ar condicionado não funcionava e não existe box no banheiro, apenas uma cortininha plástica que não chega nem até o chão (resultado: quando se toma banho, o banheiro fica todo encharcado). O café da manhã é bem fraco. Para complicar um pouco, não existe Uber na Bulgária, mas dá para se virar com um aplicativo de táxi local chamado Yellow!, que funciona de forma semelhante ao Uber ou 99.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Aram

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021
Response from Irina Krumova on 20 Aug 2021
Thank you for positive feedback!

8/10 Good

Areti Fatourou

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019
Response from Irina Krumova on 13 Jan 2020
Thank you for positive feedback!

8/10 Good

Gilles

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019
Response from Irina Krumova on 6 Nov 2019
Thank you for feedback!

8/10 Good

ZOLTAN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019
Response from Irina Krumova on 21 Aug 2019
Thank you for positive feedback!

4/10 Poor

DIMITRA

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Not value for money
Το ξενοδοχείο ενώ στο site είχε πολύ εντυπωσιακά art δωμάτια το δωμάτιο που μου έδωσαν ήταν basic ,καθόλου ιδιαίτερο στυλ και 40 ευρώ το μονόκλινο για Βουλγαρία είναι πολλά λεφτά.Το μπάνιο δεν είχε καν μπανιέρα ή ντουζιέρα αλλά πρόσχωση στα πλακάκια.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Diego Antonio

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Insatisfaccion al 40%
Las habitaciones no son como las muestran en las fotos, el baño no es para nada comodo y es muy antiguo, tiene servicio de desayuno incluido a eso le doy 100 puntos. No pude disfrutar mucho mas el hotel debido a que no tiene otro espacio de entretenimiento, siempre tiene eventos y aunque no lo pareciera, incomoda pedir algo de comer o hielo para la habitacion y tener que ver a la gente vestida de gala, es muy incomodo, asi como que no te dan agua en la habitacion, tienes que comprarla
Stayed 5 nights in May 2019
Response from Irina Krumona on 17 Jul 2019
Dear, Thank you for positive feedback! About the room complaint - we have 68 different rooms, for every taste and esthetic point of view. And we always provide opportunity to our guests, ot change the room that they do not like. The reception is 24/7 open. We hope that you will visit us again!

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2019
Response from Irina Krumova on 29 May 2019
Thank you for positive feedback! We will be glad if you visit our hotel again!

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
La réception de hôtel était médiocre . La chambre très sale rien avoir avec les photos, le ménage jamais fait je déconseille cette hôtel
Stayed 8 nights in Dec 2018
Response from AHS on 17 Jan 2019
Merci pour le commentaire. À l'Art Hotel Simona, nous insistons sur la propreté. La réception est propre et soignée et assez élégante pour un hôtel trois étoiles

8/10 Good

Marco, Torino

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel nel complesso buono.
L'hotel offre buoni e soddisfacenti servizi, pulizia nelle camere tutte spaziose, accoglienti e silenziose, ottimo ristorante interno e posizione servita da diverse linee di mezzi pubblici che collegano col centro città. Volendo solo una nota negativa rispetto alla mancanza di prese elettriche nei bagni ma tutto il resto è assolutamente positivo.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

rositsa, Nürnberg Bayern

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Ich bin begeistert!
Ich bin sehr begeistert! Obwohl ich in Sofia eine Wohnung habe, werde ich immer wieder art Hotel Simona empfehlen! Toles Personal, Güte Küche, angenehme Zimmer! Nur ich hätte mir gewünscht , dass die Servicepersonal beim Frühstuck etwas freundlicher und zuvorkommend wäre! Aber wenn schon!! Wünsche allen Alles bestens!! Rositsa
Stayed 5 nights in May 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Resolveu bem o assunto de estadia. Sugiro divulgação de roteiro de chegada do aeroporto...
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018
Response from Mr. Dimitrov /Sales Manager/ on 25 Apr 2018
Thank you for your review. You're welcome again as our guest!

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Mooi hotel buiten het centrum van Sofia
Hotel was niet gemakkelijk te vinden, niet aangegeven met borden, maar eenmaal binnen ziet het er allemaal nieuw en fris uit. Lawaaierig als het raam openstaat want ligt aan een hele drukke weg. Ook goed uitkijken met oversteken.Receptionisten spreken goed Engels en doen hun best het je naar je zin te maken. Het ontbijt was goed en heerlijk gegeten in het restaurant.We hadden een mooie kamer maar de bedden waren iets minder.Kan hotel aanbevelen.
Response from Mr. Dimitrov /Sales Manager/ on 25 Apr 2018
Thank you for your review. You're welcome again as our guest!

8/10 Good

nurullah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Mica, Münster, NRW

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Liebevoll eingerichtetes Hotel
Ich war nur eine Nacht als Zwischenstopp in dem Hotel, weil ich am nächsten Morgen einen Flug nehmen musste. Das Personal ist sehr freundlich gewesen und hat mir auch Tipps, die über das Übliche hinaus gingen gegeben. Ich war auch essen in dem hoteleigenen Restaurant, das Essen war lecker. Das Zimmer und das Hotel selbst sind sehr hübsch und kreativ gestaltet und auch sehr sauber. Das Einzige, was mich gestört hat, und weswegen ich nicht noch einmal in dem Hotel übernachten würde, ist, dass das Bad (obwohl es sauber war!) sehr unangenehm gerochen hat. Mir ist von dem Geruch beinahe übel geworden... Schade!
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Hotel con rapporto qualita/prezzo adeguato
Profondo est, da visitare, buona esperienza conositiva
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2017