Clarion Hotel Euroopa - Tallinn, Estonia 

Clean, new hotel. Handy for Port & Old Town
Posted: Mon, Oct 22 2007
Booked this hotel through a booking hotels website and wasn't too sure what to expect as the hotel's website doesn't show much of the hotel. However, the hotel was a pleasant surprise and great value for the 76 euros for a twin room. It is brand new. It only opened earlier this year and it still smells of new carpet! The hotel is designed to reflect the nature of Estonia. The carpet looks like a flowers in the forest. The walls and doors are made of ash wood. The stone used in the hotel is dolomite. The hotel is situated directly opposite the Nordic Jet Line Terminal but is really quiet. It is only 5-10 minutes walk to the old town. There is also an interesting Orthodox church that has just been restored at the end of the road from the hotel. The Estonian Museum of Architecture is also nearby. The hotel is very modern and they have obviously made an effort to provide a quality product. It has wifi throughout the hotel and each room has a Philips flat-screen tv. There is a good selection at breakfast, despite some of the strange things on offer - eg. steamed vegetables. Buffet choices were cereal, sausages, bacon, scrambled egg, hardboiled eggs , salmon, cold meat and cheeses and various juices as well as tea and coffee. Staff were very friendly and helpful in the reception and breakfast area. Didn't notice staff anywhere else, yet everything was spotless and pristine. Will definitely stay here again.

Clean, new hotel. Handy for Port & Old Town
Posted: Thu, Sep 27 2007
Booked this hotel through a booking hotels website and wasn't too sure what to expect as the hotel's website doesn't show much of the hotel. However, the hotel was a pleasant surprise and great value for the 76 euros for a twin room. It is brand new. It only opened earlier this year and it still smells of new carpet! The hotel is designed to reflect the nature of Estonia. The carpet looks like a flowers in the forest. The walls and doors are made of ash wood. The stone used in the hotel is dolomite. The hotel is situated directly opposite the Nordic Jet Line Terminal but is really quiet. It is only 5-10 minutes walk to the old town. There is also an interesting Orthodox church that has just been restored at the end of the road from the hotel. The Estonian Museum of Architecture is also nearby. The hotel is very modern and they have obviously made an effort to provide a quality product. It has wifi throughout the hotel and each room has a Philips flat-screen tv. There is a good selection at breakfast, despite some of the strange things on offer - eg. steamed vegetables. Buffet choices were cereal, sausages, bacon, scrambled egg, hardboiled eggs , salmon, cold meat and cheeses and various juices as well as tea and coffee. Staff were very friendly and helpful in the reception and breakfast area. Didn't notice staff anywhere else, yet everything was spotless and pristine. Will definitely stay here again.

still too new, but an interesting addition to the Tallinn hotel scene
Posted: Wed, Aug 08 2007
This is a brand new **** hotel that opened in late May. It is situated right at the Admiralty harbor of Tallinn, a small pool from where the NordicLine large speedboat ferry to Helsinki leaves, and one side of the hotel, including all business class rooms and suites, faces the harbor, the old town, and the Baltic Sea. The hotel is so new that there are many glitches, and rather than taking it slowly, they are often booked out (mainly by groups) and can't cope with the mass of people yet. The very young staff (I saw nobody over 25) is friendly and energetic, but sometimes a bit lost. The rooms are quite austere, but the views are of course excellent. They still strongly smell of wood preservatives. The furniture is light wood, and while this is cool Scandinavian design, to me it seemed more like ***. The bathtub is plastic, and it's impossible not to flood the floor. There are no towel racks, nor hooks at all, in the bathroom (also no hooks in the main room). The room was of course brand new, but the daily cleaning was less careful than usual in Tallinn hotels. The buffet breafast was quite okay. One day I ordered room service - no menu yet, I was asked what I would approximately like, and when I said just some generic stuff, I received a very nice selection the next morning - unfortunately sans cutlery or any bread or rolls. Well, they are trying, and one should give a hotel anyway some 2 months to sort things out (and I wasn't charged for the breakfast, which had some very nice parts). The area is so-so; the harbor in Tallinn still attracts alcohol tourists from across the sea, and the neighborhood is not fully safe. The Old Town is in walking distance (10-15 mins.), but via dirt paths and crossing heavy traffic arteries; there is no public transport here, and one usually needs a cab (for which one has to wait because there is no cab stand). There is a supermarket with long opening hours just meters from the hotel entrance, and a nice restaurant on a moored boat ("Admiral") two minutes away. All in all, the views and proximity to the sea are the best features of the hotel; it is much better than any other in the harbor area. For the price it charges, tourists or business travellers are better off in downtown places like the Domina City, and if you need a sea view anyway, you can go to the Radisson or the Ol?mpia. Only if you are looking for a hotel right at the sea yet in Tallinn is this the right choice for you.