Prague, Czech Republic Hotels and Apartments

klasse Lage: 5 Min zu Fuß von der Karlsbrücke entfernt auf der Altstädter Seite in einer Parallelstraße zur Smetanova nabrezi, daher nicht laut (im Februar), aber trotzdem zentral. Frühstück im Kellergewölbe, gute Auswahl. Zimmer super, dritte Etage, sogar mit Dachterasse (waren im Februar dort, daher zwar nicht wirklich nutzbar, aber dennoch..). Jederzeit wieder. Dem Hotel angeschlossen ist ein italienisches Restaurant (haben wir nicht getestet), weitere Restaurants (mindestens 5) zu Fuß innerhalb von 5 - 10 Minuten gut erreichbar.

My husband and myself visited Prague over the August Bank holiday weekend, It was magnificent. Nothing can prepare you for the breathtaking beauty of Prague. Every corner, every street reveals more mind blowing vistas and buildings.

We chose to stay at The Leonardo as its location seemed to be quite central and it was reasonably priced.
The hotel itself is a little non descript from the exterior but inside the rooms are warm, clean and spacious and beautifully decorated. The bed linens, towels, bathrooms etc are to a very high standard and bathrobes and slippers are a nice touch in all the rooms.

The breakfast room and restuarants are very authentically Czech and beautifully renovated. The breakfasts themselves were reasonable, though the hot breakfast was the same 3 items each morning. The location is excellent, just a couple of blocks away from the old town square. Waking up after an afternoon siesta to a man playing the piano and a fountain tinkling away in the courtyard was lovely.

The strange thing about this hotel is the air of \'lifelessness\' that abounds. it surprised me as the hotel seems so perfectly arranged but just lacks any atmosphere, but I think this could be due largely to the surly attitude of a lot of the staff. Our chambermaid and the doorman were lovely and very kind, helpful and friendly. The desk staff a different matter entirely..

I had emailed the hotel to request a river view room to which they had agreed, I was most dissapointed to find that when we got there we were told we could only have the river view rooms if we paid £50 per night to upgrade, Both myself and my husband thought this was a ridiculously large increase and so we declined. This seemed such a shame as one must assume that as we declined to upgrade the room it lay unused anyway.

On the Saturday evening we returned to the hotel, hoping to enjoy a couple of glasses of wine in the bar, it was closed on a Saturday night, with no explanation which we also found dissapointing.

To summarise if we were visiting Prague again I would not choose to stay at the Leonardo, When you stay in the city you will come across so many places to stay that are so charming and full of character you would not choose to stay in this really quite souless hotel again.

Whilst there try a restuarant called Bella Vista this is up near the vineyards around the monastery, the views there are breathtaking and encompass the whole of Prague city we spent a lovely afternoon there. The food is very good. We ate at a different restuarant every lunchtime and evening and never had a dissapointing meal, the food is superb.
We travelled around one afternoon in a horse and carriage which was a fantastic experience.
We loved our visit to Prague and will definetly be there again in the not to distant future. We fell in love with this City.