Holiday Inn Skopje

Unfriendly staff. Early in the morning (6.30) fire alarm. Escape through emergency exit from sixth floor. Nobody downstairs to inform or help you. Walked to main entrance and asked what to do. Staff hardly responses at desk and only says it was a false alarm. It was said after e had to ask! No apologies, nothing. Apparently it was clear very soon that it was a false alarm. Why not tell immediately through intercom it was false! They could inform us there was an alarm so the intercom works. Very disappointed. Before the staff wasn’t friendly either.

1 of the 2 elevators (max capacity 5 persons) was not working (and this since 2 weeks already!). The breakfast was terrible. Not only it was not tasty but it was also poor and at 7:45 am the buffet recipients were already empty. Moreover, the waiters always gave us the constant feeling that we were disturbing them. They did not even reply to « our » greetings – let alone a smile or « good morning » upon arrival. They didn’t even say « have a nice day » when guests leave the breakfast area. They just ignored guests. They didn’t do much, and they never asked whether we would like some coffee, for example. Once or twice they were even chatting quite loudly in a group of 4-5 next to the food displays, without even caring of the disturbance they made. I received one small bottle of drinkable water in the room upon arrival, then during an entire week nothing. Are guests supposed to purchase drinking water themselves? The water in the shower was lukewarm at best (after 2-3 minutes of letting it flow). Impossible to take a genuine hot shower. I asked for an umbrella at the reception one evening when it was raining heavily. I was told that « we had one somewhere, but probably someone else took it already ». Never again.