Gastgebruiker
15 juni 2024
Imagine you are given a wonderful suite with beautiful furniture, two comfy chairs and a divan and enough storage to place two steamer trunks of luggage. And then imagine that you cannot spend a single comfortable minute in the room. Sadly, that was my experience in the suite in Room 401 on the top floor of the Park Hotel in Turku. The beds were placed so pillows were up against the windows, and there was NO way to close the window shades to avoid direct sunlight striking the bed. And Turku was going through a heat wave and there was no good way to place the fan provided in the room in a way that improved air circulation. Result - Greenhouse! Good for flowers but not for people. Every day, I descended from my room to the ground floor, cooling off significantly as I went down. Always cooler on the ground floor than on the top. I slept badly every night I was there. Sweated profusely. I can imagine someone writing a great novel in that room, during a cool spell. It is a magnificent room and the hotel is well-placed to the train station, not a long walk from the market and the river, the buffet is quirky but good (bacon was only available one day and no more was made, but the fruit bowl was always well stocked and the cheese and bread were delicious), staff were friendly. But untenable during spring and summer.
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