a&o Prague Rhea

The building in which the hostel is located was renovated between 2017/2018, therefore is has a modern and friendly design. Not much hints at this being an old Eastern Bloc styles hotel from back in the day. The view from the upper floors is nice though, but...

You don’t want to stay on the upper floors, trust me. Are you fond of being waken up in the middle of the night by a blaring fire alarm? This is the perfect place for you! During our stay of three nights we evacuated fully once at 3:30 in the morning, and on the next day we almost did so after a fire alarm went off around 4 in the morning and was immediately canceled afterwards. I understand that safety requires the exercise needed to run down from wherever you are located (up to the 21st floor), but evacuation here was a total joke. During evacuation staff was nowhere to be seen - meeting points at ground level were not sign posted and NOBODY from the staff was anywhere to be found to direct the evacuation. Good luck with 21 floors worth of rooms scrambling for safety with no coordination. Needless to say, much of the building didn’t evacuate anyway, and it didn’t seem like anybody on the shift that night cared to check on anyone at all. On the second night (01.09) the alarm went off yet again, but was turned off in a few seconds. Having called the reception to check if everything was in order I was given an unfriendly shrug (it sounded as if he wanted to suggest to me that I’m a complete moron) saying that there is no fire and no problem... of course, not being able to sleep at a lodging facility is not a problem at all! Ridiculous evacuations aside, the staff was also useless when it comes to keeping peace and quiet at night. Also tonight (01.09), starting late into the previous day, a man was shouting German obscenities (god was he foul mouthed), slamming doors and running around on the floor above us, most likely directly above room 1514. He was doing so up until 4 in the morning the next day, and well, he wasn’t quiet at all. His voice echoed through the open window all around the housing blocks around the hotel and for around 6 hours (!) nobody calmed him down. It all eventually stopped after somebody intervened, though I doubt it was the staff.