Old Riga Boutique Hotel "Vecriga"

Pros: friendly staff, easy and early check in, nice toiletries, mini fridge in the room, quiet, fantastic location
Cons: hair all over the bed linen, almost no natural light in the room, marks and stains on the wall and some places, mould in the bathroom, cold room despite leaving the heater on maximum on all day.

Overall, I wouldn’t recommend because of the hair issues.

The only thing good is location. Staff is not welcoming especially in breakfast restaurant. And even I am not russian for some reason staff tries to speak in russian straight away, even though you're in Latvia, so that was strange..
Breakfast was not great, very oily pancakes, and some old and stale sweets, and not all fruits are fresh. The only great thing about it is location.
Rooms are not clean. Looks like they clean where they see, but if you move things you can see that it is dusty, and curtains have never been washed or changed.

I would not recomment staying there.

Rooms are not soundprooof. You can easily here from inside the room when people talk outside in the hallway, even if they are just speaking in normal voices.

It is 7degrees now here inside the room since the heater doesn’t work. We informed the staff and they kindly gave us another heater since they agree that the current heater was already at maximum heating without really doing anything.

The bed is right there when you opened the door, it’s literally right next to the door.

There are no tissue boxes offered. The towels look very old, no longer white and been used so many times.

Parking is at 20euro additional per day. We found another parking space at 3euro until 8am the next day and then 3euro additional after that but it’s 15min walk. There is only one staff and she has to go away all the time to open the gate so other cars can get inside the parking space. I feel bad for her because although she’s nice, she’s a one woman show who does everything. It feels like this hotel is trying to earn as much while keeping the costs so low. The other staff on the second day was lovely too. They are the only good thing about this old hotel.

They mark themselves as a 4-star hotel but it doesn’t seem to be true as it’s a very outdated hotel.

Old lamps next to bed, only for meant decoration and they don’t work at all.
No telephone connected to the reception. Not even some drinking water offered like the usual “4-star” hotels. Fake flowers in the reception area.

They spray such strong room freshener it is very strong it seeps to inside the room. Some people are allergic to chemical scents but they don’t seem to know this and be considerate to their guests.