I'm heading back out to Kiev soon - specifically Sumy. The return flight is with UA, leaving at 9am, and I don't fancy a five hour taxi ride to get there for 7am.
SO, I'm planning to go back to Kiev the night before, and stay the last night in a hotel as near to Borispol as I can. What I'm asking here is, does anyone have any good info on a cheap place close to the airport? I'll be arriving late and checking out early, so I'm not looking for The Four Seasons.
Google for the Borispol airport website and, on it, there is a link to the airport hotel which is within walking distance of the terminal.
BUT .... if you book in advance you pay an additional booking fee of 50%, I took the canance one summer and just turned up, plenty of rooms but not with air con, I barely slept alnight, if I left the balcony door open aircraft noise kept me awake, if I closed it then I became soaked in sweat.
Walking distance from the airport is Borispyl Hotel. Single was $65 USD equivalent about a year ago. If you book it by phone or by internet, it will cost you near $100. They charge you for a booking fee. Why, I don't know. I would think it should be cheaper if you book it in advance so they can guarantee or plan their business.
About two years ago, they were out of single rooms and gave me a double room. They told me they charged me the equivalent of a single room at $85 USD equivalent. I believe that was a lie.
Muzzy, you are in luck! The hotel has its own airport, and it is about 15 minutes walk from the terminal (essentially, on the "driveway" leading to the airport buildings, of course you can take a shuttle rather than walking):
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Great things about this place:
* rates are affordable
* rooms are basic, but clean and modern with own bathroom
* you can reserve online (see link at bottom of their page)
* so close to the airport that you could crawl the distance in a drunken stupor ... should the need ever arise
* surprisingly, the restaurant is really nice
Only thing that sucked when I was there:
* there was a heat wave (high 90s F) and the basic room I had was not air conditioned: a bit like an oven -- though using the room's fan and judicious ventilation (balcony door wide open with lights out to keep from drawing flies) I was able to sleep
In my case, I saved several hundred bucks by booking two flights that had something like 16 hours in between, so the cost of one night at the hotel was well worth it.
Good luck on your trip Muzzy, I hope you'll post here how things go.
Borispol is certainly within walking distance of the airport - a block or two - and there is a green courtesy phone attached to a pillar near the airport information desk.
Pick it up and make the arrangement - they will send a free courtesy bus within 15 minutes for your luggage. Very convenient.
Like most Eastern European Hotels breakfast is provided of course.
Stayed there a couple of weeks ago when Ukraine International couldn't provide a working plane for my 6:20 am flight to Amsterdam. I ended up flying the next day - and since that was earlier than the restaurant opened we were given a bag breakfast which was really a joke.
It was a chocolate bar, a package of cookies, a juice box, a hotdog bun, a shrinkwrapped piece of cheese, and a shrinkwrapped piece of sausage. Mmmmm mmmmm. These were all put into a bad in advance and I had to wake the cook who was sleeping on a sofa in the restaurant to get them. Very well thought out.
There is no way to open shrinkwrapping like this of course without a knife or a scissors - two items that one really isn't supposed to have in carryon at the airport.
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There are must cheaper and nicer hotels in Borispol City, it's just 10-15 minutes by taxi from the airport, the price for taxi ride about 50 grivnas. I would recommend to go to Galant Hotel, it's a nice private hotel with a cafe and WiFi Internet. The prices for rooms are cheap and rooms are nice, you can get one for 200 grivnas, that's about $25 now. Here is a phone number of hotel +380449562888 They do reservation on the phone, no extra charge for that.
Another hotel is Non-Stop, also small private hotel, but I wasn't staying there, so can't give any recommendation, the phone number of the hotel is +3804449563360
One more private hotel in Borispol is Laura, the phone number is +380449534461
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