Next Door Park

I recently stayed at a hotel that, despite its pleasant staff, left much to be desired. The staff were consistently kind and smiling, earning the hotel two stars. However, the overall experience was marred by an awful odor permeating the room, reminiscent of bad body odor and stale cigarette smoke, which made it difficult to enjoy my stay. The hotel was connected to the city utility system, preventing any regulation of room temperature. As a result, it became uncomfortably hot, and attempts to cool the room by opening windows or the sliding door were futile, only allowing the unpleasant smell to linger. While the maid service did replace toiletries and make the bed, they neglected to provide fresh towels, even taking the ones I had. When I called for new towels, the staff promised to deliver them but never did, adding to my frustration. Breakfast options were disappointing and lacked variety. Although the hotel looks appealing at first glance, my week-long stay became unbearable. They do not provide washcloths, but they do offer individual toiletries such as shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body lotion, and even slippers. If requested, they have dental, shaving, and vanity kits available. On the plus side, the rooms a big and the hotel's restaurant, Brick, served excellent food, particularly the delicious pepperoni pizza. Its also reasonably close to the Vardar River so you can enjoy the nicepromand along side it. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this hotel for a stay due to the many issues encountered.

This is possibly the second worst hotel at which I have ever stayed in my multi-decade life of travel. There is the Park, and there is the Next Door Park: the two are smushed together with no rhyme or reason (e.g., we have to walk down multiple flights and through the lobby and up again to breakfast). It feels like a hotel the brutalist architects messed up. Our room overlooks a parking lot and into empty offices of the soccer stadium. There is layout makes no sense and feels like a waste of space — one long room has a sofa in front of a TV that we use to lay out our clothes because there are NO closets, NO drawers, literally nowhere to unpack our bags. Housekeeping does as little as possible to justify their existence—one day they toss two clean towels into the bathroom, another they decide to make one bed not the other, today they vacuumed because we asked and brought toilet paper because we asked yet did not bring mugs for morning tea/coffee. The staff give a dozen different answers as to why temperature controls in the rooms do not work and make it way too hot. The shower becomes a pretty wet mess all over the entire bathroom. Hopefully this hotel is not the baseline for N. Macedonia. For a beautiful country, basic hotel architecture and service of even a budget hotel level would be appreciated. Also, the lack of included access to a basic gym let alone pool stinks.