Now I have stayed at 4 hotels in Bojnice and Prievidza in the last few months I think I am in a good position to do a good comparison.
The Pod Zankom advertises with 4 stars. I think this comes though more from the facilities than the rooms. I was in a room on the " renovated" 1st floor. The room had 2 single, identical, beds which looked like they had been designed to fit against a wall so looked quite strange next to each other i.e. bed ,cabinet, bed , cabinet. The furniture did seem quite new but not of a high quality. The " renovated" room seemed to have new wall paper which was already coming off at the corners and the new carpet had been fitted around the furniture leaving gaps where it had not been fitted correctly. The plastic swing top bin in the room was also not really of 4 Star quality. The worst of all is the bathroom. This has old looking facilities and the craziest thing is that the shower is a standard mixer tap in the bath but there is no shower curtain or anything to stop you flooding the bathroom. This is also quiet dangerous climbing out of the bath with a wet and slippy floor.
On the positive side the hotel has lots of free parking and the public areas are really quite nice. It has a large restaurant and bar in the building. The problem here though is that breakfast is served in the restaurant which tended to smell of old cigarettes. Not the most welcoming smell first thing in the morning. Breakfast is reasonable but not the best in Bojnice. There is a buffet with hot and cold selections or the hot selection is offered seperatly if the hotel has only a few guests. There is also a Saeco self service coffee machine, which when it works, makes all of the right noises but then produces a cup of Nescafe. The staff were very friendly.