InterContinental Moscow Tverskaya

This classic luxury hotel, located in one of the city’s primary streets (Tverskaya), enjoys not only a fantastic downtown location but gorgeously appointed rooms, a fine dining restaurant, and a host of amenities that include a spa, lobby bar and club lounge. Staff are friendly and efficient.

Location

9 / 10

From the hotel it’s just a 15-minute walk to major downtown sights like Red Square, the Kremlin and the Bolshoi Theatre. There are cafés, shops and restaurants all around, as well as cultural highlights like the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Pushkin Square and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, which are all within a mile. There are also four metro stations around 300 yards away. Belorussky train station, which connects to Sheremetyevo International Airport, is a 15-minute walk.

Style and Character

8 / 10

The overall aesthetic of the hotel, created by London based Alex Kravetz Design studio, is classic corporate-luxe interspersed with contemporary splashes. Public areas and rooms are mostly decorated in rich browns, creams and golds with good quality woods and marble, and occasional nods to local architecture and culture such as cog-shaped reading tables that refer to Russia’s industrial era.

Service and Facilities

8 / 10

The hotel’s plush spa is a big draw, offering a host of massage services and other beauty treatments, a Turkish steam bath and modern 24-hour fitness centre. Parking is available for guests and the efficient reception and concierge staff can arrange everything from currency exchange to car hire; guided tours to restaurant bookings. The hotel also has meeting and conference rooms as well as a business corner for working guests.

Parking
Restaurant
Room service
Bar
Laundry
Sauna
Spa
Wi-Fi
Fitness centre
Steam room/hammam

Rooms

8 / 10

The 203 rooms are decorated in a fairly safe but modern and tasteful style. As well as vaguely contemporary furnishings and decent quality textiles, they include a laptop-sized safe, writing desks and tea and coffee-makers. Bathrooms are modern, spacious and fresh and the views from the upper floors are highly photogenic. A number of the junior and executive suites and three penthouse suites are named after famous Russian ballet dancers Galina Ulanova, Isadora Duncan and Vaslav Nijinsky.

Food and Drink

8 / 10

The smart 90-seat Chekhonte restaurant – which has an open kitchen and great views to Tverskaya – serves traditional Russian cuisine with a sophisticated European twist: think pike cutlets with red caviar and purple ravioli with duck parmentier. The P-Square lounge bar in the lobby serves cakes and pastries during the day and killer cocktails at night.

The buffet breakfast, also served at Chekhonte, consists of delicious dishes such as eggs Benedict, omelettes, pancakes and Viennese waffles.

Value for Money

8 / 10

Double rooms from 10,000 Russian Rubles (£140) in low season; and from 26,000 Russian Rubles (£320) in high. Breakfast not included and costs 1,500 Russian Rubles (£19) for the Continental breakfast, 2,000 Russian Rubles (£25) for the buffet and 1,900 Russian Rubles (£23) for the Russian breakfast. Free Wi-Fi.