Best Western Hotel Sumadija

We recently stayed for 2 nights. Rooms are small but modern and clean. Staff are friendly and the breakfast is quite good - although quite greasy and not too many healthy options. The rooms and hotel do smell like cigarette smoke though. The hotel is outside the centre but taxi's are quite cheap. A recommendation if you want somewhere clean and modern. A little dear though for Belgrade and distance from the city.

I stayed in hotel BW Sumadija for a week in october and I get a discount. Breakfest was exellent, everything is clean, good service.

Hotel is not in a city center, but you can reach the center by taxi in five minutes.

Reccomend!

I went to the Tesla Symposium in Belgrade and stayed at the Best Western Hotel Sumadija for 3 nights. The staff was extremely helpful and nice. The restaurant was very nice and the venison soup was fantastic.

The room was much nicer than I expected and the internet connection was reliable and fairly fast (cost 200 dinar the first hour and 100 dinar per hour thereafter).

The free buffet breakfast was expansive and quite good.

Overall I was very impressed with Belgrade - everyone there was very nice. Lots of smiles, well dressed people, everyone polite and helpful. I mention this partly because I have been living in Prague for the last year. Quick summary: the city of Prague is beautiful but the people are rude, mean and ugly. The city of Belgrade was not very pretty but the people were beautiful, helpful and nice. If I could do it again I would live in Belgrade and have made a short visit to Prague!

Two things to be careful of.

1) if you tell the taxi driver 'Best Western' they will assume a different Best Western and take you to the wrong location. Make sure to specify "Best Western Hotel Sumadija".

2) Night clubs in Belgrade have some very strange requirements that I still don't understand. You are likely to be turned away at the door if you don't have a 'reservation'. The hotel will happily call and make arrangements at any disco/club you like otherwise you can spend the whole night being turned away from one nightclub after another. Club Bardo was particularly rude and I would recommend avoiding them completely.

On a side note... the Tesla Symposium was amazing and Serbia and the scientific community put on a most incredible event which was educational, enjoyable and the social events were luxurious.

Hotel is quite new, well equipped and comfortable. The staff was friendly and helpfull. The only remark I could make regards the breakfast. The menu was the same for 5 days in line. No freshly squeezed juses. Everything else was worth money we had paid for. If I should return to Belgrade I will certainly go for this hotel again.

Being unfamiliar with Belgrade, we had to ask a cab driver to take us to the hotel (we could not find it at all). Once there, however, staff were very friendly, arranging a late diner (excellent !). Our room was ready (with nice baby cot), and beds were indeed superb !! Breakfast was good (but not especially copious).

The hotel is quite new, well equipped, climatized and comfortable. The staff is courteous and helpful. Nice breakfast and large choice of very fresh and nice food in the hotel restaurant (stylish service) for a very low price. No doubt that I will book in that hotel if I return to Belgrade.

Nice hotel, far away from the center but very nice and good comfort. Breakfast is not so great, but the room is definetly worth the money. Close to the river in a residential area. Not too far away from the airport, tough no noise at all. Great and comfortable bed.

Nice hotel, but between 3 of us, with a single + twin roon, the price was about £50 each, which is ok value normally for a Best Western Business style hotel, but on the whole very expensive for Serbia.

We chose Best Western Sumadija as we wanted a bit of luxury for a night after a pretty average stay the previous night at "Hotel Belgrade" outside the Rail station - one of our group said the "Hotel Belgrade" was the worst hotel he'd ever stayed in! But "Hotel Belgrade" wasn't that bad (if you ignored the horrid smell in all the hotel & dirty bathroom), £10 each including brekky - you get what you pay for!

However, Best Western Sumadija was lovely overall! Beautiful shower, small rooms - nice though, cable tv etc, buffet style western breakfast, bacon eggs etc.

However, location - over an hours walk from the city, taxis are reasonble, approx 10 Euros for the journey to/from Railway station/city area.

Overall a nice brief stay, if its what you're after!

The night of luxury was well received, but the down side was the taxi costs on top of it!

One extra bonus was the reception staff were very good, & even booked our next hotel in Budapest - another Best Western of course!!

What I like about the hotel:

Furnishing in the rooms are standardized, all items are good enough: the double bed, the large desk, abundant closet space, the well-lit and clean bathroom. Everything functions properly: the individual air-conditioning unit, the TV, and good shower pressure.

Dinner is not bad, and the breakfast buffet offers good choice. Eggs can be made to order.

The neighbourhood is residential, quiet and safe. There are a few convenience stores across the street from the hotel.

The only thing that bothers me: the hotel staff smoke inside the hotel (their supplies room is directly across from my room). The smoke fills the corridor and my room.

This is a very average hotel, but its shortcomings strangely give it character (local flavors, perhaps).

I travel to Belgrade on a regular basis, and stayed in this hotel three years in a row in the month of April/May.

Location: Away from the city centre, you can reach it by taxi or the local tram. Convenient for people familiar with the town, but not for first time visitors. Locals recognize it as Sumadija, and not Best Western, so use that name when asking for directions. Also, if you have business in the New Belgrade part of the town or the Fair, the hotel's location will suite you fine, but do not go there if you want to spend your days in the older part.

The staff is very polite and helpful. The breakfast is ok, with fresh food and a variety of choices.

If booked early through their website (one month or so in advance), the price is about 20% lower than the regular applied.

Every time I went there I got a decent clean room, non - smoking as requested.

However, the business travelers will find an unpleasant surprise with the hotel internet fees. In similar hotels, the wireless internet is free of charge for the guests, but here I had to pay 20 euros for unlimited 24 h access.

So, all in all, fairly new and in quiet surrounding, but difficult to reach and with a nonsense internet fee.

I stayed at this hotel a couple of weeks ago because of its convenient location for my, but it is quite a distance from the center of Belgrade.

The rooms were a bit small, but quite nice, somewhat trendy certainly to the (lower) Belgrade standards with free Internet, a good shower & airco. Maybe the most imporant item: the bed was very decent: comfortable, clean and the down bedding was large enough for me to cover both my feet and neck ;-)

Positive other points: free internet, possibility to completely open the windows, ATM in lobby

Lesser points: desk in room is too small, breakfast is very poor with local items only (don't expect Nutella or any imported breakfast items anywhere).

Last week I spent two nights in this hotel. After having thoroughly researched the Belgrade hotels web-sites and reviews at this site, I came to a conclusion that the ONLY positive side of the hotels located downtown is that they were right in the centre of Old Belgrade and that the ONLY negative side of the hotels in New Belgrade was that they were not in the city centre. And since I prefer enjoying indoors just like outdoors, I decided for this hotel. (And I did't feel like paying as much for Hyatt). It is true the hotel is far away from the city centre, but taxi fare to the centre costs cca. € 5. The hotel staff is very professional and helpful. They sent a taxi-driver to pick me up from the air-port and he was waiting for me with my name on the board. (the taxi fare from the air-port to the hotel cost cca. € 25). I arrived to the hotel very early in the morning, a long before the check-in hour and there was no single-room available and they kindly gave me a double-room at the same price. The room was very nice and perfectly clean, but small. I guess for two people it would be pretty squeezed. The bed and the pillow were extremely comfortable, the air-conditioning was running perfectly well, the mini-bar was nicely supplied and cheaper than any mini-bar I have ever seen in a hotel. The breakfast room was very nice and breakfast offered a huge selection of food, which however was more acceptable for a lunch than for a breakfast. The only attempts of healthy food were brown sugar, muessli and fruit. But this is the Serbian diet in general - delicious, but not very healthy. I have not visited the wellness area of the hotel.

This hotel is your basic Best Western standard of quality and it's obviously a recent renovation but it's VERY FAR from the center of Belgrade. Without a car, it's a big problem to get there. We were upgraded to a SUITE but it was a tiny outer room with a very small bedroom inside. Basically the size of a regular room but split in two...The bathroom is basic (no tub) but clean and recently renovated. Our room had a smell of smoke and everyone in the hotel, including all the cleaning staff, were smoking so it was barely avoidable anywhere. The breakfast was served in a decent room but the food wasn't anything special. The best thing about this hotel was definitely the bed! It was EXTREMELY comfortable and the good night sleep made up for everything else. One other funny thing is that the fitness center is open from 9:00 am so it's useless for anyone staying on business.

We recently stayed for 2 nights. Rooms are small but modern and clean. Staff are friendly and the breakfast is quite good - although quite greasy and not too many healthy options. The rooms and hotel do smell like cigarette smoke though. The hotel is outside the centre but taxi's are quite cheap. A recommendation if you want somewhere clean and modern. A little dear though for Belgrade and distance from the city.

Suburban renovated hotel requires taxi to anywhere in Belgrade - so watch out for the rip-off taxis waiting outside, always phone a real taxi (they have 2 signs).

The rooms are very small, the shower cubicles tiny: not recommended for normal or large sized people! The mattress in my room seemed extremely old and sagged in the middle like a banana. The air conditioning unit hangs over the bed.

They didn't clean my room when I stayed 2 nights and only put in new towels that were stained and dirty. When I complained (only the second time in my life) the manager called me a liar! I was shocked to say the least and very glad I could find another hotel in town.

They wanted to charge me EURO 180 x 3 nights (I stayed 2). After an hour the rude manger agreed I could pay 2 nights at EURO 162. But no apology. I should have walked out really.

A sad advertisement for Belgrade. Otherwise I found local people very nice and helpful.

I booked 2 rooms on the website of the hotel. Then, once in Serbia, the day before I phoned the reception asking for confirmation. The man on the phone confirmed the rooms and the price: he said it was a special price for internet booking. The following day I had to phone again because the hotel is very far away from the centre of belgrade and I could not find it. The person in the reception was very nice, tried to help me, but it happened to be too complicated and he advised me to take a taxi and follow it. I took his advice, thanked and paid the taxi, and waited to be served. When he was about to proceed with the booking, he said that the price had been changed January 14th (2 months before) and he could not keep the price I got on Internet without permission of the manager. He tried to contact him, we waited half an hour and finally he said he was sorry but we had to pay the standard price. I filled out a complaint on their complaints's book (surprisingly my complaint was the very first and only one) and we left.

Fortunaltely It was easy to find a better and very central hotel. This was the first time I had to face a problem like that, and it is the very first time in my life that I write a report about a service ( or lack of a service in our case). The rest of our trip through Serbia was wonderfulI; people were very nice and helpul all time.

"That´s their culture" meinte der junge Mann von der Rezeption, nachdem ich ihm von der vergangenen Nacht erzählte. Etwa gegen 5 Uhr morgens erwachte ich recht unsanft, weil laute Gespräche vor meiner Zimmertür im 4. Stock stattfanden. Vier Erwachsene sassen in den Sesseln und unterhielten sich bei Chips und Cola anscheinend schon eine ganze Weile. Ich empfand dies als Ruhestörung und als Verstoß gegen die Hausordnung des Hotels. Das hat nichts mit Kultur zu tun , sondern ist rücksichtlos. Und die Antwort des jungen Mannes an der Rezeption dieses immerhin recht teueren Hotels einem Gast gegenüber. empfand ich als Unverschämtheit.......