Prague, Czech Republic Hotels and Apartments

It\'s fair to say the Waldstein is a pretty hotel with it\'s wooden features, courtyard and cellar breakfast room. It\'s even prettier when covered in 6 inches of snow but it soon loses its attraction when you try to walk on those cobblestones Prague town planners are so fond of!

However, for all its genuine attractiveness, I was a little disappointed with the Waldstein which wasn\'t especially cheap. We stayed in an alleged \'Deluxe Suite\'. To me, you shouldn\'t have to share a bathroom if you have a deluxe suite! I was very uncomfortable with the arrangement, especially as the people sharing our bathroom were rather noisy. The room was quaint and nicely decorated but very small and the double beds were pushed together, not usually a problem but it was a bed with a raised wooden part in the middle which was very uncomfortable!

It is impossible to get a decent sleep-in in this hotel due to the amount of wooden staircases which creak and wake you up. Lucky we took our earplugs...

The breakfast (included) was buffet-style and more than adequate and most of the staff were friendly enough by Prague standards (i.e. not very) aside from one reception worker who would barely crack a smile.

All in all it was satisfactory but definitely nothing special. Oh, and take some comfortable shoes.

We stayed at the Ave Waldstein for 3 nights, this being a Christmas present from our Son & Daughter in law. We arrived quite late on Sunday night and was greeted in \'reception\' ( a tiny office) by a scruffy young man with shirt hanging out who picked up a bunch of keys and asked us to follow him. We went back outside the hotel and through a locked gate into a concrete passage which led onto a small courtyard. surrounding the courtyard were balcony,s leading to apartments- very Soviet era style. Our \'luxery room\' was up some bare concrete steps, along a bare concrete coridor to our room. The style to say the least was original, no heating in the entrance corridor, no heating in the bathroom and a 40 year old tiled nightstore heater in the bedroom that did not work for the first 36 hours. (The Hotel had no portable heaters to help either). This is the first hotel I have stayed in where the toilet is in the middle of the floor! i.e. not fixed back to any wall or framework. Putting the shock of all the above to one side the hotel is very clean, the breakfast room full of atmosphere and a good selection for breakfast. The location is excelent with all the best attractions within walking distance. But 4* - absolutely no way!

Lovely little hotel right in the centre. 5min. walk from Karlov most. Very clean, good breakfast, impressive furniture, free internet, but I would give it 3 star. I would recommend this hotel. I also would recommend to visit museum of Medieval torture instruments ( just of the Karlov most, entrance about £2.50) and Sex mashines museum ( of square, entrance about £3-4). If you love beer and good food you must go to Brewery and restaurant Pivovarsky Dum (Jesna/Lipova 15, 120 44 Praha2, tel.[--]. There you can try champagne beer, cherry beer, banana beer and other 5-6 flavours, I know some of the flavours seems strange, but banana and champagne beer very nice. Very good food in that place too, we have been there twice and in very cheap. Don\'t go to Prague by night with dinner cruise. Prague very small, you see nothing when on the bus or boat, food very bad. It waist of time and money, but Karlstejn Castle must. It very good, not too long and nice lunch included. We had great time in Prague, go there and stay in our hotel.