Garni Hotel le Petit Piaf

I have a trip in 9 days and my reservation was just cancelled by the hotel, without any explanation. The reservation was made months ago and now I will have to look for another hotel and pay more. A total lack of respect for the customer. I do not recommend that you trust such an establishment.

This hotel is quirky and in a fantastic location. The rooms were very clean. The staff, especially the restaurant manager are great. I did not catch his name, but the restaurant manager at breakfast everyday was phenomenal. Very friendly, and remembered what we liked every morning. Location is a bit disguised when looking for it the first time. The hotel is in a VERY noisy part of town. There are local musicians and locals singing. Heard them after midnight. NOT a fault of the hotel, but bring ear plugs. AC worked great, and breakfast was ordered off a menu with lots of options if you are gluten or lactose free. I would stay here again.

I was there for a one-week business trip. The local organizers of the conference recommended the hotel, which proved to be an optimal choice, indeed. Its location is unique in Belgrade, in the heart of the old town - now the bohemian district - which has a very special, cosy atmosphere. Though the hotel is in a pedestrian area, it has a garage that can be approached from the rear side of the block. The rooms are comfortable and clean, equipped with all things you need. The staff is very kind, the breakfast is tasty and plentiful - from an a-la-carte menu. Gagi, serving the breakfast, is super polite and helpful. When I return to Belgrade, I certainly come back here.

Parking was an absolute nightmare. After a four drive we arrived and attempted to follow the quirky instructions for parking our car. The hotel parking is situated within a separate private open air car park - right at the very end of it. Their idea is that you should park your car outside of this huge private car park, go looking for the hotel reception, obtain a car park entry ticket for the car park (barrier) and then return to your car, enter the private car park, drive to the far end, locate their car park and the access it. IT DOESN’T WORK! When there is zero parking anywhere near the private car park or the hotel. You are smack in the city centre of BELGRADE!!! And the hotel is located within a pedestrianised area. Forget their picture posted on ***********, that implies that parking nearby is easy - it was impossible. We pulled off the very busy main road, after going around and around three times (major stress) only to have cars appear behind us by the entrance to the car park. We had no choice but to take a ticket. We drove to the far end, spotted the tiny sign for The Petit Piaf Hotel, pressed the buzzer and the shutter opened revealing a massive parking vault. We parked our car unloaded all our luggage, hiked up the outdoor metal stairs, meandered through some cobbled passageway and eventually found reception feeling somewhat elated that we had survived the nightmare. When we mentioned that we had parked our car in the car park, we were instructed to remove it. We had to remove the car from their car park, drive through the other car park, exit the barrier manoeuvre adjacent to a very busy road, use their car park entry ticket and re-park our car in their hotel parking bay. There was no way of circumventing this ridiculous situation, none. The location of the hotel was excellent, the room was big, but the bathroom tiny. I mean really tiny less than one sq. meter to dance around the shower, sink and toilet lol. And the bathroom door opens into that less than one square meter of space. But worse of all, THE NOISE! at night. I hardly slept. The only relative quiet came after 4.15am - I know this because I was awake. Forget the ambiguous comments on other reviews, their windows are inadequate to surpress the laughter, loud music, cheering, singing etc etc. Don’t get me wrong if you are there to get lashed and party until 4.00am (ish) return to your room and hit the bed, no doubt you’d have a great nights sleep. For anybody else, I’d say forget it. To recap, archaic, totally inconvenient parking. Tiny bathroom. Good bedroom. Poor sound exclusion (little sleep). Great location and wonderful city. The free breakfast? We honestly could not wait to get out of this hotel, so we simply left on empty bellies. Never again, unless I’m invited on a rowdy stag do, without a car and it’s booked by somebody else!