Europe’s biggest hotel is spread across four towers and 30 floors, but it might not be getting much international business at the moment. The Izmailovo Hotel in Russia was built for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to accommodate both athletes and spectators.
It is made up of 5,000 rooms and was built as the city did not have enough accommodation to cope with the demand at the time.
The four towers now house five separate hotels which have to be booked individually and are named Alfa, Beta, Vega, Gamma and Delta.
And each hotel is packed with entertainment including a Russian bath complex, bowling alley and billiard room.
It also features a restaurant able to seat hundreds of guests as well as a spa area with saunas, hydro tubs and a massage parlour.
Oddly the hotel does not have any family rooms, but guests are able to ask for rooms next to each other, and all rooms have a TV, a DVD player and an ensuite bathroom with slippers and robes provided.
From 1980 to 1993, the hotel was actually the largest in the world, however this has now been trumped by the First World Hotel in Malaysia, which has 7,351 rooms.
Tripadvisor reviewers have praised it for being “clean and modern with an excellent breakfast”.
One reviewer said: “Very nice Hotel just opposite Kremlin with an amazing view from the sumptuous breakfast layout.
“Value for money, comfortable rooms and many restaurants around the hotel.
“The smile on your face is due to seeing its 1km long breakfast layout first thing in the morning after which you could hop across to see the Kremlin.”
Double twin rooms in the hotel start from 3,600 rubles per night, the equivalent of £31.30.
