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Minutes from the bustling carnival of the Schwedenplatz and five minutes from the Stephansdom, the Hotel Post is a big hotel on a little street. The three-star Post weighs in at 107 rooms. It's much bigger than surrounding properties and consequently it feels less cozy. It's a fair value for a hotel in the middle of the Innere Stadt, as the rooms are big and the amenities ample.
It may be big, but the Post offers fragments of character crosshatched with the chain-style anonymity. A hotel has stood here for centuries (Mozart slept in this very spot!) though the building only became the Hotel Post in 1942. Inside the building, there's a beautiful wrought iron elevator and a cozy lobby area.
It's too bad that the art nouveau frontage belies rooms that are anonymous. While the oriental rugs in the rooms are a classic touch, the desks and beds are banal, and look as if they were sourced from a U.S. Midwestern chain hotel. Rooms sprinkled over the hotel's six floors have satellite televisions and hair dryers but no wireless. Doubles are quite large, though some of that space comes at the expense of the en suite bathrooms, which are dark and cramped.
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