Отель LIFEHotel
23 ulitsa Volodarskogo, 440000 Penza, Russia
Отель LIFE is situated in Penza, 10 km from Sports Palace Burtasy and 4.3 km from Penza regional library named after Mikhail Lermontov. With a shared lounge, the 3-star hotel has air-conditioned rooms with free Wi-Fi, each with a private bathroom.
It is very much inconvenient to have to take breakfast in your room, what made it close to impossible to me to invite my customer for breakfast. You even get a time slot instruction, at which you have to take your breakfast — for me 07:45 or 08:15 from which unfortunately neither fit. Feels a little bit like a pioneer lager some years back. For an additional breakfast you of course need to pay extra — that's ok and fully accepted. But the prices for breakfast at this kind of place are significantly beyond Penza average. Remarkable that the stuff refused to issue a receipt for the extra-breakfast. Thus, you can speculate why… It is also not possible to pay any extras by credit card, so you need to have sufficient cash at hand. For change I had to ask. What I disliked most were the prices for any transport. In these days many foreigners are in Penza to enjoy Russian hospitality during the Football World Championship ⚽. 99% of them don't know local habits and prices and don't speak a word of Russian other than "спасибо"☺. It is very unpleasant to see how those guests are shamelessly overcharged even without a smile. The hotel staff hardly speaks English, but this price table was carefully prepared bi-lingual in Russian language and "Google-English" — at least one feels as if it was designed to squeeze the most out those foreigners. The standard local price to go by taxi across the city is anything between 150-250 Rubel. Here they charge 2.