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I just booked a r/t for 58 EUR, seemed painless enough.

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Very good service at a reasonable price.

Good tip.

Any recent experience as for Platinum breakfast?
What is offered? quality...

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Continental at the Le Moet restaurant. You can get your coffee, pasty, juice, and then also select one of the items "behind the glass" (a serving of fresh fruit, yogurt, muesli, etc.). It's good and perfectly sufficient, but of course not gut-busting like a buffet would be.

I didn't push the envelope, but I think you can get more than just one of those latter items....just ask.

No idea if you can pay to upgrade to the buffet (separate restaurant in the hotel)

Like to share some of my last experiences at this laocation.

I had a multy stay something like 8 weeks ago and used a Suite upgrade Voucher which worked fine for me. Was upgraded as a Plat to a normal Suite.

Negative Points:

- Suite was next to the elevators = noisy in the night
- Compl. Plat breakfast in the champagne bar where smoking is allowed
- Service at the bar very depending of the stuff. One evening almost impossible to catch a drink. Next day great service and a funny night.
- Strange pricing for Beer / 7,- € next to the Hotel in a nice Bar/Restaurant 4,- €
- Dinner in the restaurant really nothing special. Expected a much higher level. I ordered a 4 course dinner with accompanying wine. But only 3 diffenrent wine arrived and I payed 4
- very unflexible in terms of opening the restaurant/bar outside. Sun was shining 25 C and it was closed outside. All over advertisment for outside BBQ but it was cancelled due to whether?!?!

This week stay:

- Breakfast in the restaurant was really underearth level. Coffee machine was not working some error message at the machine. I asked the stuff to take care about that. But they where not able until I left 30 min later to fix it. Even though I was not asked for coffee or soemthing else. (BTW. same lady as with the Wine 8 weeks before). I would never pay 28,- € again for this kind of breakfast without service.

- no upgrade as Plat (booking same day makes it alsways difficult)
- very noisy AC must be shut down at night = very hot inside the room 5* ???


Positive:

the location and the hotel itself.

But I will not return next time. I'll try the Carlson next to the LM as the prices are more reasonable.

I thought segregation ended in the 60s :rolleyes:

Sounds exactly like this pathetic set up

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7285/8...5c778686_z.jpg

Smoking? :rolleyes:

One word:

PATHETIC

It continues to stun me that SPG is able to get away with this BS. Time to cancel my stay and move to Hilton VIE.

FYI, not a fair comparison to the pathetic W setup.

While of course wish they went above and beyond like many other Euro/Asian properties do with a full buffet, the quality was good for a Continental. I got the feeling that I could go back for more "behind the glass" options (yogurt, fruit, muesli, etc.) too if I really wanted, but I wasn't that hungry.

I was told at check-in that for breakfast as platinum amenity I could choose between the restaurant buffet (opening 6:30am) and the Le Moet bar (opening 7am).

I went to Le Moet and, to be fair, the items to choose from behind the glass are pretty nice in my view (e.g. salmon roll, cream-chesse & dried tomato roll etc.). They are usually priced around 3,50 Euro per piece (but free for platinum breakfast). At the bar I ordered three items, a double espresso (good quality), and a juice, and all was brought to my table. I was informed that freshly squeezed orange juice is not included in the SPG breakfast (but normal juice is).

For me the atmosphere at the Moet is far nicer than at the restaurant, which I never really liked in the morning (as it was often crowded). However, that smoking is allowed at Le Moet can really be a problem I guess (I went there early and no one smoked).

Offering a choice would be an enhancement versus when I was there in July - it was Le Moet only

yep... Was there in July as well and got offered only Le Moet. The clerk was quite surprised when I said that I preferred 500 points instead of the breakfast for two.

If they offered the restaurant breakfast, I'd definetely take it.

It was reported to me that they offer now the full brakfast in the restaurant for Plats.

Not sure if I'll give it a try due to the fact that my last stay at the Hilton was that nice and I saved 35% of the LM rate at the Hilton (incl. Lounge) that I'm not sure how I'll decide next time.

I've stayed here about 6-7 times in the last year, so a couple of notes:

- Platinum breakfast has switched from continental (Le Moet) to full buffet (Shambala) a couple of months ago
- breakfast is good
- location is very central. Close to the other two Starwood hotels
- it's a pretty classic Le Meridien... modern rooms, ...
- good gym, pool and sauna
- they're stingy with upgrades. Have gotten a suite only once. Never beyond a junior suite (even last time they said "we have no suites..."... true for the Junior suites but higher suites were available on the website)
- all of the upgrades (to "executive" rooms) were rooms facing the inner "courtyard" (=other buildings & hotels rooms)

and the one thing that will make me stay somewhere else next time:
There's a REALLY annoying cracking sound that the furniture makes :( And it's even worse when you turn on the light...
I called the reception and they said "yes... we know... we apologize. It's the temperature, which causes the wood to make these sounds"... Perfect when you have to work in the room :(

was there twice last year and got twice upgraded to a suite and both times looking to the "ring"...
for me as being based in vienna the breakfast is no big deal, as there are lots of very good breakfast opportunities near by. Naschmarkt for example...

This reply is being written from a "executive" room with a lovely view of the "courtyard" :)

Maybe they liked you better :)