Хороший отель, но летом номера "Фонтанки" перегреваются! Good hotel, but Fontanka's rooms overheat in summer!

We lived in Azimuth for a week and a half in July 2014. The hotel is very well located near the picturesque canal, it is easy to find, one of the attractions is nearby - the cathedral, several canteens, Dixy and Semerochka stores, the metro stop is literally a stone's throw away, and the bus from the Hermitage and the Winter Museum, where most of the excursions end, stops right in front of you! Although most of the center reached on foot. From the Admiralty and the Hermitage, depending on the pace, you can walk on the map in an hour and a half. It's impossible to get lost!
The hotel has 2 buildings - the main and Fontanka. Fontanka has its own entrance from the side of the canal, it is very convenient to return from walks in this way.
Breakfast is served in the main building, which can be reached via a covered walkway. The food is quite decent, no worse than in European hotels (in Debrecen, Hungary, it came across much worse). Sausages, sausages, cheeses, eggs - boiled and scrambled eggs, various vegetables, bananas and oranges, cereals, pastries, milk, coffee, tea, juices. . .

Everything was great, except for one moment... The rooms are terribly hot and stuffy! There are no air conditioners on the Fontanka. And the heated towel rail in the bathroom fries so... Both open windows did not help much. After complaints from tourists, the "degree" of the dryers was slightly reduced, but this did not help much. The employees explained that it is often damp and cold in St. Petersburg, so usually the locals have the opposite problem - how to install more batteries and keep warm.
In the summer of 2014, both buildings were being repaired with might and main. But we must admit that they did it quietly, carefully, at the time of day when the hotel was empty, they did not cause any inconvenience to anyone.
In general, the hotel is good. The furnishings of the "Standard" room were quite satisfactory. The room is of a normal size and does not seem small, and in general you can dance in the bathroom - too spacious. Tables, bedside tables, beds look brand new. The TV, however, is by no means flat, but it showed normally. After all, when you show up to your room late in the evening after the tours, there is not much time to look at the screen. The main thing is the sound! And the news was perfectly audible even from the bathroom)). But in the summer, I would advise tourists to take rooms in the main building - they say it is cooler there and there are air conditioners almost everywhere. But in winter and in cooler weather, you can go to the Fontanka.