Originally Posted by hugolover

I stayed here recently. Great upgrade to Sauna Suite from Basic Room.

Lounge food was really good during the week, beautiful pieces of cooked cod... weekend...not so much. They definitely spec the lounge better midweek than when the hordes come in on the boats and drink the place dry. They have to open the "London Room". The atmosphere of the place changes. It reminded me of a typical UK Hilton with a lounge on the weekend.

Breakfast was very good. The Babuschka preparing the eggs bennie was much better than the younger staff on other mornings. She really took her time over it and it was perfect.

Restaurant dinner started off truly great, delicious Carpaccio starters, but then our meat was not cooked to spec and had to go back. Meat recooked but sides not and put under a hot lamp. So they had to go back a second time as they were cold. It was their error, not ours. Bit of a disaster.

I noticed the staff were very patient with some very demanding Finns who wanted to know absolutely everything about the food and wine. Kudos to them.

Cocktails in the bar were great when prepared by a young Estonian girl. And she was incredibly polite when an American woman, at least twice her age, was trying to invite her back to her room and asking her if she liked boys or girls... it was cringeworthy Yewtree stuff. I thought I would have to intervene. But she handled it with grace and did not offend the drunk American.

It's really interesting to see all the entry level roles carried out by Ethnic Russians...what Ukrainians do in Poland. I was able to practice my Russian!

Tallinn really is a dead city during the week. Not only was it quite expensive, but we noticed everywhere was totally dead. Went to the Telegraaf, dead, not a single pax in the bar at 9PM.

The Euro seems to have really killed it off. It was busier when I last visited during the EEK times.