The hotel rooms are clean, but small. The TV set is 14'': you need binoculars to watch tv from bed!!! The bathroom is very small, with shower. Hot water shower is a privilege for the first ones who do it!!! If hot water is over, as it often happens,you have to wait till it is available again: hours !!! Fortunately... More

I’ve had to languish twice now in the Hotel Alma-Ata. Both for business and both disappointing. Post Russian in design, they've truly encapsulated the attitude as well. Most of the staff seemed disinterested to the point of arrogant with a grasp of only the faintest effort to understand or cater for the English language. The fountain out the front runs... More

The Hotel Alma-Ata is a typical Soviet-Style hotel. Somewhat grim, somewhat old, somewhat depressing. If you go for the bargain-basement price, you will get a room with no AC, threadbare carpeting, a few pieces of toilet paper, and if you're lucky, hot water that day. If you go for the "luxe" room at a higher price, it will be slightly... More

This hotel is inexpensive for the following reasons: the room I was in was very small, dirty, generally uncomfortable and smelled. Bedside lamp was broken, no hotel directory (information) in English, ran water for 20 minutes to get warm water, mini-bar is the only amenity (i.e., no tissues, only 1 roll of toilet paper in the room, sit bath with... More

This was for the first time I was in Kazakhstan and our company booked a standard room at the Alma-ata hotel as it was very close to our office - both centrally located I had lived 5 years in Russia some time ago , so I knew that for 200USD I couldnt expect the same what you get in Europe... More