Hotel Victoria

The location of the Hotel is excellent. Staff was nice and helpful. Breakfast was good, the building itself and the restaurant look beautiful and full of old time glamour. However, the rooms do not reflect this.

I had initially booked 4 nights in Hotel Victoria. We got a very good offer and I certainly wasn't expecting any luxury. I requested a room on the park side and was happy to hear the hotel agreed to this. Technically the room was on the park side. However, it was right on the corner of a road. As we opened the door, we had to take turns to go in, as the room was the size of a stamp; very small. It was also stuffy with wall-to-wall carpet. When I sat on the bed, I felt like I went right through it; the thick mattress was uncomfortably soft. This ended up being the breaking point for us. I could hardly sleep at all and in the morning, I was SO tired and cranky. All I could think of was the sleepless night. Although I was happy I escaped a migraine that often comes after a badly slept night, I wasn't looking forward to spending 3 more nights on that bed. My husband and I discussed the situation at breakfast, which by the way, was nice. Unfortunately, I was too cranky to really enjoy it. We decided to ask the hotel if they would have anything else to offer us. The young woman at the reception was very nice, understood our problem (we got the impression we weren't the first ones to have a problem with the mattresses) and offered us another room. We went to take a look at the other room and it was a lot bigger, nice sized room (and on the park side) but it still had the exact same beds with the unnaturally soft mattresses. I briefly considered sleeping on the floor but quickly gave up on that idea. In the end, we decided to go to another hotel. So no, I wouldn't recommend Hotel Victoria.