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It is located in the outskirts of central Riga, so either use of public transportation or a 15 min. walk must be calculated in your schedule. (Taxis - only the red (Rigas Taksometru Parks) and the salad-green (Baltic Taxi) are worth trying, the rest is a risky business as we experienced and may result in major rip off and generally grumpy russian driver of the most dubious kind). Room was standard, just about big enough, nice sized bathroom. True water at times was brownish, but I guess that is not unusual with old pipes, let it run for a while, it should get clear. Airconditioner works only as a heater, we would have liked a cooling function, too as it was +30 or more during our stay. Other than that absolutely worth a try if you get a good deal which in our case was less than half of what others closer to Old town were asking. Service? By local standard it was fine enough, do not expect all smiles as that is not usual in Latvia, if they give you your keys and respond to your questions you are doing just fine.

LatviaArrived on 18th May only to be greeted by the receptionist with 'we have a slight problem'. The three rooms we had booked had become unavailable the previous night. So we were offered a choice of 2 hotels to go to and return the following day. We went to the Elefant which is way out of the city for walking.We returned the next day to find we had 3 rooms. Unfortunately there is a brown tint to the tap water, worries you a little when having a shower. I would not swallow any water. Work men still doing something to rear of hotel.

This hotel is in a quiet area, a fifteen minute walk from Old Riga. Excellent service in reception and a good sized, clean room. The free WiFi is a perfect way to use your i-gadgets to plan the Riga visit.

My fiancee and I stayed here for a long weekend in May. Good points - good central location to the city, nice range of foods available for breakfast. Bad points - beds in rooms were very hard, we both had a bad back after leaving. Staff on reception desk were very unhelpful and didnt really want to help when asked about local attractions etc. I asked one of the women on reception what the exchange rate was from sterling to lats and she looked at me like I was crazy and just shrugged her shoulders. There was however one man on reception on Monday 13th May who did give us some info. The thing that spoiled the stay for me the most was during check out. We went to settle our room service bill and were told ' you have a 90 lat penalty for your room also' (well over ¿¿100). We were shocked and asked what was it for, we were then told 'oh no wait a minute it is for 20 lats because you have ruined the towels!' When I questioned this the lady then said that we had ruined the towels in the room. Now I have a skin disorder which means I cannot go in the sun and I am naturally very pale. So this means that I wear fake tan occasionally and as we were on a weekend away I wanted to feel nice so I had had a spray tan before we left. Yes I did get a little fake tan on the white towels but I have had this happen whilst staying in hotels all over the world and it has NEVER been a problem. Fake tan is made to wash out, I wash it out at 30 degrees at home and I am guessing that for hygiene reasons the hotel has to wash their towels at temperatures much higher than this yet they stated that I had ruined them and they had to be thrown away! I also am not sure if they have fake tan in Latvia because the way the woman looked at us and made us feel like the fake tan was something of a similar colour that had been put on the towels if you get me!! We were made to feel like we had done something really bad when all I had done was dry myself and fake tan had come off on the towel. Had i not been tired and wanting to get from there when we left I would not have paid the 'fine' and kind of wish now in hindsight that I had told them what to do with their towels. All in all this experience left a bad taste in my mouth for not just the hotel but for Riga which is a shame.

This hotel is at a 10-15 minute walk from the very central Old Riga and the central railway and bus station. The hotel has a good standard to it - clean, nice, feels like new.We had a fairly large room with a large enough bathroom (with a bath!). Our room did not have any view but of the inner yard, but because of that it was very quiet. The carpeting on the floor in the hallways and in the rooms also contributed to the quietness. Breakfasts were fine, with a good enough selection. There was sparkling in the morning for hotel guests (free of charge). However the staff could do a better job of looking after availability of plates, glasses, and cups. The one problem we had was lack of hot water for the first two days. It was lukewarm, not hot, but after we gave notice to the reception, it was fixed quite quickly.The whole hotel has wi-fi coverage which is nice.