Hotel Most Slávy

We'd never heard of this place when we decided to overnight here based on a Slovak friend's recommendation. We were quite charmed by the experience. The art-nouveau-style hotel, once the gathering place for international stars attending an annual film festival held here from 1993 to 2015, is spacious and comfortable, with some quirky decorative touches remaining from its glory days. Our room had very high ceilings, lots of light, and a small balcony with views across the valley's burbling river to the lovely, expansive park beyond it. Many pieces of furniture, once clearly part of a whole-room set, were authentically old, done in a kind of vernacular Arts and Crafts style. Though not complete, the set gave our room quite an interesting look, while also offering a good amount of space to stash our stuff. Even the door was part of the same stylish scheme. Throughout the building, we found beautiful examples of the original decor. One of these was a large glassed-in passageway connecting one wing to another, with richly colored panels that evoked nouveau or oerhaps secession stlye. The hotel had a spacious, well-appointed lounge/breakfast room, with crisp white linens on every table and quite a nice assortment of delicious foods from which to choose. I gather that dinner is also offered here, but we arrived late and so missed it the first night, opting for a bite at a cafe in the park, and we left the following morning. The dinner menu looked appealing, so maybe "next time." Although we did not ourselves use any of these facilities, we noted that the hotel has its own spa, sauna, whirlpool bath, and swimming pool, and tgat it offered massage too. The Wi-Fi was reasonably good once we figured out to connect to it. Let me just note that during our short stay, there was no English-speaking person on duty, nor did anyone understand any of the other languages that we speak. But everyone showed good will and tried hard to be helpful, so we managed to bridge the language barrier well enough to do the necessary business, and we exchanged friendly pleasantries when we departed. Recommended.