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• February 9, 2009
• Rated 4 of 5 by a traveler from Travelocity.com

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Perfect Location

• December 7, 2007
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Manotel Royal

• December 31, 2006
• Rated 5 of 5 by girlfromals from Ottawa, Ontario

After the disaster that was the Hotel Windsor, the Royal Manotel felt like a palace. The Royal Manotel is one of 6 hotels owned and operated in Geneva by the same group. Each has its own theme and the Royal is a blend of French and neoclassical design. The lobby was immediately open and inviting and was buzzing with activity the morning we changed hotels. Even though we checked in around 9am our rooms were available and we dropped off our luggage before heading up to the U.N.

Everyone else had warned me that these hotel rooms would be much smaller than North American ones. While the room was a bit smaller than a North American room I definitely could not complain. I opened the door to a spacious and calming bathroom, a double bed, sidetables, closet, personal safe, mini bar, and flat screen TV. While there were a few signs that the room was well used, i.e. noticeable wear on the carpet, it felt palacious compared to the dump we had stayed at the night before. The bed was comfortable and included fluffy pillows. Interestingly and smartly you had to insert your room key into a master slot to turn on the electricity in the room. It took me a couple minutes to figure that out! Best of all it was a non-smoking room on a non-smoking floor!

One of my colleagues stayed in a room at the back of the hotel and noticed the trains rumbling into the train station at night. Thankfully I was at the front and although I had to contend with some street noise from the Mole tram stop when I kept the window open to cool down the room I had brought my earplugs along and did not hear a thing. The wireless Internet was apparently not working in the rooms at the back of the hotel but was accessible in the lobby. The hotel is centrally located on Rue de Lausanne near the train station making it very easy to get around the city. The Coop grocery store is located just across the street from the Royal Manotel so it was easy to pop in at the end of a long day and pick up a few items to save money.

The room was not cheap running 585 Swiss francs. Luckily the Canadian mission had gotten a good deal at 250 Swiss francs. Breakfast is included with the price of the room. The buffet breakfast provided a full spread of anything and everything you could imagine, cheeses, breads, granola, canned and fresh fruit, fresh juices, meats, and a strange offering that was translated into English as ‘starchy food’. We weren’t exactly sure what it was but it did not look appetizing so we stayed clear of it. The service in the breakfast room was impeccable. Breakfast ran from 6am to 10am every day.

I thoroughly enjoyed my stay here and would highly recommend this hotel to anyone.

From journal Working the U.N. in Geneva

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