Park Hotel

This hotel is in a park in the middle of the city. So you are close to everything but feel like you in a isolated area. The staff are very efficient and willing to help. The hotel itself is a beautiful building and the room was spacious and well appointed. We would defiantly stay here again.

The hotel is easy to find after a tiresome drive, and makes a very welcoming first impression: fragrant, gently air-conditioned interior is traditional, harmonious and comforting. My dog and I were greeted with well-mannered hospitality and offered a good room on the ground floor. There was no noise in the room from the passers-by in the park. The park is full of beautiful trees and maintained in an easy-going manner, lovely for a walk any time of day or evening, and sufficiently well-lit to feel safe. The bar staff were exceptionally personable and informative on a variety of local subjects, which I appreciated, as enjoyable conversation is a rare bonus. Dinner was served in the gracious garden, which was charming in the early autumnal evening light, and much enhanced by a splendid vintage piano player with particular flare for old favourites. The nostalgic music complemented the atmosphere of the hotel perfectly and screened the other guests' private exchanges. The Polish cuisine was at its finest - a real treat when you live on a small island in Shetland. In fact, I asked the waiter to congratulate the chef on the humble soup, which was exquisitely and unexpectedly flavoured with wild mushrooms. I would have happily bought a cookery book by the hotel chef, and told him so on the way out, hoping he would produce one soon. Overall, the hotel is to be recommended for the confident maturity with which it receives its guests and the regional cuisine with local flavour.

The location in the park was good and made the hotel feel like it was situated in a forest.