- Gareth Southgate’s England squad will arrive at the ForRestMix Club Hotel, near Saint Petersburg, on Tuesday
- The £104-a-night hotel has an in-house gym, communal swimming pool and games room with snooker tables
- Despite four-and-a-half star TripAdvisor rating guests slammed it for being ‘dirty’ and serving tasteless food
A selection of images take you inside England’s four-and-a-half star World Cup hotel – but not everyone thinks that it’s up to par.
Gareth Southgate’s squad will arrive at the ForRestMix Club Hotel, near Saint Petersburg, on Tuesday ahead of their opener against Tunisia the following Monday.
Photos show the £104-a-night hotel with an in-house gym, communal swimming pool and games room fitted with snooker tables.
England’s four-and-a-half star World Cup hotel ForRestMix, located about 40 minutes north of Saint Petersburg, doesn’t look like much from the outside
Gareth Southgate’s team will arrive at the ForRestMix Club Hotel on Tuesday and sleep in suites like this one ahead of their opener against Tunisia the following Monday
A guest from Russia claimed the spa was filthy and said the swimming pool was filled with ‘lots of chemicals’
But despite all of its amenities and four-and-a-half star TripAdvisor rating, ForRestMix doesn’t look like much from the outside.
It’s located in the rundown village of Repino, which has lots of construction going on around it.
There’s nothing to entertain tourists other than a wine shop, supermarket and disco.
One reviewer criticised the swimming pool for having too much chemicals while others moaned about the size of the bedroom TVs.
A reviewer from Germany wrote on TripAdvisor: ‘Maintenance is below standard. Breakfast is simply tasteless.’
A guest from Russia said: ‘The spa is dirty. The swimming pool is poor with lots of chemicals.’
One British expat from Saint Petersburg wrote: ‘Breakfast seemed to have been cooked an hour before as it was tepid.
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