Review: Art Hotel Sibiu, Romania

Ah Romania... I was there last week and at two properties I had to turn on the air conditioning to balance out the heat at night 😉

Ah, church bells. My hometown in Eastern Europe has the same thing. One ding at 15 minutes past the hour, two dings at 30 minutes, three dings at 45 minute and four dings on the hour followed by a different-sounding bell announcing the actual hour (1 ding for 1 am/pm, 2 dings for 2 am/pm etc.) Charming 😀

I stayed at the Hilton. Rooms are massive and good service.

Agree with @Lukas. This is particularly great at midnight, when you get a full 16 chimes 🙂
I'd say it's quite typical for many European towns and cities, though.

Sibiu is a fantastic town that really has a lot to offer for the visitor. Hopefully the city will profit a lot from that in the future.

The furniture in the room looks like it's from Ikea.

Some hotels lock guest windows due to bad experiences in the past (neighbors being disturbed by noisy tourists, stag and hen parties and the like). In these situations, I immediately ask the reception for the keys or for another room, and promise I won't be noisy. Sometimes I have to threaten to dispute the credit card charge. After all, what you pay for at a hotel is a good night's sleep, and in rural Europe at least you should expect to be able to open your hotel room's windows.

"there were church bells going off all night, about every 15 minutes… why on earth?"
To give you the time every 15 minutes! Also during the day!

Hah!!

You are used to stay in big cities.

It is everywhere in Europe in small or secondary cities, at least when you are in the center or close to it, including in countries like Spain, France or Germany.

And if you are in Paris on the first wednesday of every month, you will hear a strange noise at lunch time...
(if you are close enough of a district town hall)

Too funny to read that, that you mention it and discover that only now, you the great traveller on earth.

:-))

Oh, my eyes hurt taking in the décor! Looks like it was done by the central committee of whatever who all had competing ideas of taste, or lack of. The bedside exercise bike was, umm, unusual.

As I mentioned earlier in your postings about your plans, the Hilton was brilliant for us. And if memory serves it is situated in a very nice park area and only a few minutes from the old town. I remember walking streets for the culture and then almost instantly being back in the Hilton.

We stayed in the Hilton twice, once as we traveled south to the Black Sea and then on our way back to Warsaw where our flights arrived/departed.

Today's price for Sibiu was $90 US or thereabouts upgraded to an empty executive floor where we were given a suite.

Why is it that some people complain about Church Bells but not about the Call to Prayer? Is one more PC than the other?

I'm sad you didn't stay at the Hilton. The rooms are so ornate and ridiculously decorated that it was kinda fun and felt like a time capsule. But the service, restaurants, and spa were the true highlights of that hotel. And it had a nice, peaceful location outside the city but close to the (really cool) zoo and ASTRA open air museum.