Irkutsk Hotels & Hostels (19)

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Staff are grumpy and rooms are ragged but no worse than you'd expect for the price. Entered through a warren of prison-like brown-metal doors, this place is very central and often full.

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Uninspired but with clean communal toilets and showers. Plenty of peeling paint.

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Were it nearer the centre, the renovated standard rooms with new toilet and curtained shower here would be fairly decent value. However, it's way out in Akademgorodok: take marshrutka 3 to Gosuni…

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Location is the only advantage of Irkutsk's old Soviet-era hotels which mostly offer budget quality rooms at midrange prices. Despite their overpriced mediocrity, most are still full in summer. H…

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The small rooms renovated some years ago are now getting increasingly scruffy with dirty carpets and battered furniture. Reasonable bathrooms are shared between room-pairs.

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Rooms are upgraded but only the most expensive doubles come close to Western standards in this riverside slab-hotel. Some have good views.

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This new pastel-beige tower has nine international-class rooms and two bigger suites which have bath as well as shower. English is spoken and the minibars overflow with alcoholic choice.

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Friendly, central and small, the Gornyak has reasonably presentable rooms with private shower and toilet, though some rooms are affected by road noise. Per-hour rates available. The entrance is o…

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Simple but well-kept Soviet-era rooms, albeit far from the centre in the distant SibExpo area. Tram 5 stops outside.

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Cosy by Soviet standards but redecoration of the rooms is skin deep. Breakfast is included and the contrastingly appealing Siberian cottage-style restaurant is recommended.

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Overlooking the new Angara bridge site on the west bank, this crumbling eyesore is depressing and awkward to reach but might have rooms available when everything else is full. It's a 15-minute wa…

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Within a new, Swiss chalet-style building, rooms here are modern and comfortable, service is pleasant and English is spoken. The peaceful location is 300m south of Retro 2. Its atmospheric restau…

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Irkutsk has two exclusive house-hotels in restored historic buildings with plush if sometimes over-fussy décor. Both open only by appointment. Retro 1 is perfectly central and was reconstructed f…

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Irkutsk has two exclusive house-hotels in restored historic buildings with plush if sometimes over-fussy décor. Both open only by appointment. Retro 2 is in a small park off Sovetskaya ul, three …

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This tiny all-suite minihotel has very stylish, fully equipped accommodation, bamboo screens shading generously sized king beds. Oddly, guests must access their rooms through the director's priva…

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Impressive bathrooms and minibar complement unusually stylish dark-wood furnishings in the Sun's modern rooms. Reception staff speak English but the lobby lacks facilities.

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Clean, unpretentious rooms with leopard-skin-patterned blankets. The communal toilets and shower are being rebuilt. Apocryphal backpacker folklore claims that impecunious travellers can get disco…

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