I found this to be a charming and comfortable little hotel in the heart of Plzen, close to many sites of interest, such as the Saint Bartholomew Cathedral and Pilsner Urquell Brewery and more. read more

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After our group checked in, I thought this was just a tiny hotel with really tiny rooms. It wasn't until my group and I went out drinking for the night and came back only to realize that our rooms did not come with a toilet. Not even sh*tting you. There's no baño, up in this b*tch. There were two beds, a desk, a dresser, a tv, a closet, outlets, and small bathroom with a sink and a shower. No toilet. Hashtag Predicament. I stood in the bathroom and scratched my head for a good minute before rejoining my travel mates in the hallway to see if they had a toilet, to which they confirmed that they did not. "So... between the shower and the sink we can use a work-around for #1... but what about #2?" Then we did an inventory of doors on our floor. There was my room. There was my friend's room. There was another room that was not ours. And then there were 2 other very slender, padded doors next to that room that had numbers on them similar to our room's. We decided to try our keys in there and sure enough, each on of our keys, corresponded to a single toilet in what was basically a broom closet in the hallway, that happened to have a padded door like you'd find at an asylum. Par for the course in my life. Just par for the course. We had a lot of questions about why our private toilets were located down the hall from our rooms, but decided not to ask any of them and just be grateful because the 3rd mystery room on our didn't have any extra hallway closet toilet, so maybe we got lucky. For $80 a night, it's just fine. Pricey for Czech Republic standards, especially considering that the cost of our much larger, nicer place in the Prague city center was only $50, and this place is kind of in the middle of not much, but whatever. They had an aquarium tank in the hallway that you'd expect to see filled with fish or something, only this aquarium had no water and instead, a diorama of plastic dinosaur figurines (see pic). It was like what you'd find in a hipster pet store, and you know I'm kind of really into that type of stuff. You'll def feel cramped staying here but it's in a central part of town, seemed safe enough, the kid working the front desk was helpful and friendly, and the woman who sets up breakfast in the morning (oh yeah, there's a nice breakfast spread in the basement) was centerfold-type gorgeous, smiley as heck, spoke no English, but encouraged me to eat to my hearts content... she was possibly the perfect woman. One thing I do have to dock point on is the thinness of the walls. You can basically hear everything... which for us involved a young woman crying absolutely hysterically for about 5 hours straight from the wee hours of the morning on. My roomie sleeps like log, so he missed it, despite my numerous attempts to wake him up and see if he wanted to take the over/under on what the chances were that she was being murdered or not. I tried to stakeout the breakfast bar in the morning to see if a girl with really red swollen eyes would come down so I could see the face of the woman who kept me up all night, but no luck there. All in all, it's a fine place to stay. Just know going in that it's more like dorm life (even though the rest of the clientele were all late-50s and older men) than a proper inn. Also, the toilet paper is pink and peach scented. Just FYI. read more

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