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Palace Hotel Prague |
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26/07/04 (102 review reads) |
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Advantages: Location , Staff , Rooms
Disadvantages: Bar Prices
The Palace Hotel is situated on Panska street about 100 yards from, and parallel to, Wenceslas Square and so is well placed for Prague's underground and the main shopping streets. You're literally 200 yards from Debenhams, Zara and M&S if that's what you want or you're opposite the Mucha Museum if you're there for culture.
Further afield, the 'Municipal House' is about 400 yards away in one direction (beautiful architecture, a fine restaurant and music recitals) while tyhe Czech National Museum is 400 yards the other way at the top of Wenceslas Square. Hracdany Castle and St Vitus Cathedral are about three stops on the spotlessly clean metro.
We travelled as part of a package deal from the UK and paid £350 for four nights B&B, including scheduled British Airways flights. At that sort of price it's just not worth skimping. We didn't notice a hotel car park, but there is an undreground car park about fifty yards away, connected to a shopping mall.
The hotel's public rooms are luxurious and the bedrooms large, well appointed and kept clean by the excellent staff. Our room had a huge king-size bed with monogrammed bedlinen and four large pillows (and two small pillows - the first time in living memory we haven't had to ask for extra) a mini-bar, satellite TV and kettle with a selection of teas and coffees. The wardrobe had more than enough hangers, how often does THAT happen?
The bathroom was large and well lit, with a comfortable bath (with shower) and a marble washbasin stocked with all the little niceties you come to expect with 5 star. And this hotel IS 5 Star by any yardstick - they days of 'East European 5 Star' are happily in the past.
Breakfast is a well-stacked buffet that is kept replenished, cold meats, cheese, breads, pastries as well as the usual selection of hot breakfast dishes.
Prague has so many interesting restaurants that we ate lunches and
dinners outside the hotel, but always within walking distance.
The staff are the jewel in the crown of this particular hotel. They speak very good English, are always friendly and eager to help and, when on my last day I left a £20 note in my room, it was waiting for me a few hours later when I returned having realised my mistake - and that was probably a week's money for a chambermaid!
The only downside was the bar... okay, so it's a five-star hotel, but there is no excuse for charging international prices for local beers (60Kc for a small beer) when a bar 50 yards away charges 17Kc for a large beer.
The hotel's website is at http://www.palacehotel.cz/ but the hotel is not as gloomy as the website would have you believe.
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- 26/07/04 Sorry: it's not that you hardly read, you don't read at all. |
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- 26/07/04 Hi and a friendly welcome! Read around a bit, so that you get the hang of dooyoo! Of course, you can do what you want and I don't want to appear patronising, but some pieces of advice might make your dooyoo life more successful. I've noticed that you hardly read other people's ops, you've got only few reads for your own ops and that you post one op after the other.
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- 26/07/04 This was an interesting read, but for a higher rating I would really like to have known more about the hotel itself, perhaps a description of the bedrooms and what about the bathrooms? I'd also like to know what the prices are like, how easy it is to get there and if there's any parking. Could you let me know if you decide to add to this opinion, as I'd like to reread it! |
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