
Hotel Robot
A long-running, trilingual hotel search bot: tell it a city and your dates in Russian, English or Ukrainian, and it returns a price-and-quality balanced pick with multi-currency pricing.
Key features
- Hotel search and booking by city and dates
- Trilingual — Russian, English and Ukrainian
- Multi-currency pricing
- Separate support contacts for English and Russian speakers
What Hotel Robot does
Hotel Robot's own bio states its purpose directly: "I'm designed to help you to search and to book hotels at any city of the world." Coverage of its 2016 launch on Lenta.ru describes the mechanics in more detail — you provide a city and travel dates, and the bot returns an option balancing price and quality, with the ability to ask for alternatives if the first suggestion doesn't fit.
Two details set it apart from newer, more minimal hotel bots in this category. First, trilingual support — Russian, English and Ukrainian — plus prices shown in multiple currencies, which matters for travelers booking across different countries. Second, longevity: having launched not long after Telegram opened up its bot platform for richer interactions in April 2016, and still resolving as a live bot today, its continued operation is itself a meaningful signal of reliability in a category where independent hotel bots often go quiet after a year or two.
Separate support contacts are listed for English (@moskovski) and Russian (@Timof...) speakers directly in the bio — a small but genuine sign that the bot is maintained for both audiences specifically, rather than being a Russian-only tool with an English label bolted on.
How to start
- Open @hotelrobot in Telegram and send /start
- Provide the city and your travel dates
- Review the recommended hotel, or ask for alternatives
- Contact support in your language if you have questions
Pricing and limits
Free
Pros / Cons
- Long track record, still active a decade after launch
- Genuinely trilingual with dedicated support per language
- Multi-currency pricing for international bookings
- Interaction model (one suggestion at a time) is less flexible than a full filterable search
- No visible monthly-user count
- No confirmed free cancellation or pricing transparency details
Score breakdown
| Criterion | Weight | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Functionality | 25 | 7 / 10 | |
| Reliability & speed | 15 | 7 / 10 | |
| Popularity & trust | 15 | 4 / 10 | |
| Price & free tier | 10 | 9 / 10 | |
| Usability | 10 | 6 / 10 | |
| Safety & privacy | 10 | 7 / 10 | |
| Freshness | 5 | 5 / 10 | |
| Localization | 5 | 9 / 10 | |
| No intrusive ads | 5 | 8 / 10 | |
| Score | 100 | 67.0 |
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What languages does it support?
Russian, English and Ukrainian, with separate support contacts for English and Russian speakers.
Can I see multiple hotel options at once?
The bot returns one balanced suggestion at a time, and you can ask for alternatives if it doesn't fit.
Technical details
- Inline mode
- Mini App
- Works in groups
- Works in channels
- Accepts voice
- Accepts files
- Requires phone number
- Requires registration
- Shows ads
- Works in Russia without VPN