This hotel seems to be too big and unwieldy for the management to cope with. We were mystified by how it managed to rate 5 stars, unless this is just a tick-box scheme which is completed by the hotel itself. Our first stay there, earlier in the month was dire (and we have reviewed it as such). Our second stay (which, to be honest we regretted having booked) was a bit better – the hotel seemed to have got itself together, and our room was ready for us, the staff were no longer ignoring or glaring or shouting at the guests. It was surprising that the safe in the room was too small for a laptop computer and there was, apparently, no other form of safekeeping for valuables in a hotel of this supposed stature. And the tea/coffee making facility in the room still consisted of one sachet of Nescafé instant coffee and one Hibiscus teabag. Altogether, the Hotel Europe was quite a strange experience, which didn't do justice to the beautiful, interesting and otherwise welcoming town of Sarajevo, which has done so much to recover from its painful history.