CZECH REPUBLIC
In the Heart of Europe

Introduction - History - Vaclav Havel - Culture - On the international scene - For Travellers - The regions of the Czech Republic -
What to do/Where to go - Did you know


What to do/Where to go

WHERE TO GO

Castles and châteaux

konopiste castle

Castles and chateaux are frequently a dominant feature of the Czech landscape. The oldest often only as mediaeval ruins adjoin wild forests or bizarre rock formations. Hunting lodges, romantic palaces, or the residences of later times adorn the meadows of the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has over two thousand castles, ruins, chateaux and fortresses, which are open to visitors from April to September.

karljstein_castle

Historical cities

Cheb town

Located at the heart of Europe, the Czech lands were confronted with various cultural influences and constructional styles during the course of history. It was one of a few countries that suffered less by both the last war and the clearance projects of modernism, its cultural inheritance was preserved. As an example: Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Brno, Terezin, etc.

Spas

the boiling source in Karlovy Vary

The Czech Republic is noted for its extraordinary number of mineral and thermal springs. Thanks to their abundance and our knowledge of their advantageous medical effects a unique spa tradition has been created. The most famous spa towns - Karlovy Vary, Marianske Lazne and Frantiskovy Lazne - with their hotels, dance halls and promenades, in the past became places where the European aristocracy frequently gathered.

National Parks

The countryside of the Czech Republic, its forests and mountains, has always been home to settlers who cultivated it. Despite this it is still possible to find wonderful, untouched, wild places, unique in respect of their scenery and geological formations.

Source: Lonely Planet

 

WHERE TO STAY

Prague

Hotel Inter-Continental Praha

Námestí Curieových 43 / 5
Praha 1
Tel: +420 2 96 631 111Fax: +420 2 24 811 216
E-mail: prague@interconti.com
Website: http://www.prague.intercontinental.com

Hotel Inter-Continental Praha

The Inter-Continental Hotel in Prague is in one of the most beautiful locations of Prague. All 372 guest rooms and suites, whether with a river or city view offer an excellent comfort, luxury and elegance to all the tourists and businessmen willing to spend a journey in the capital of the Czech Republic.

Ostrava

Hotel Imperial

Tyršova 6, 701 38 Ostrava 1,
Czech Republic
tel.: 00420 599 099 779 or 099 or 113
fax: 00420 599 099 599
Website: www.imperial.cz

Hotel Imperial

The Hotel Imperial is attractively situated - in the centre of town.
The hotel has a capacity of 210 beds and a possibility of 50 extra beds in single rooms. Every room is equipped with bathroom, WC, minibar, direct dial phone, satellite and pay-TV and ASIS is the hotel communication system. Higher level quality rooms are with air conditioning. They are located in a more peaceful area and are larger than the other rooms we offer. Beds can be arranged according to the guests choice either as twin beds or a double bed. Breakfast is included in the price of the room. The Imperial Hotel is a Congress Center itself in the hart of Ostrava. As the centre of the cultural and social events the hotel can organize all kind of congresses with its four different halls. The cuisine is also a distinction of this hotel, that takes care of every single client.

Harmony Club Hotel

28. ríjna 170
Ostrava - Mariánské Hory 709 00
Ceská republika
Tel: +420/596/ 652 111, 652 132
Fax: +420/596/ 611 520
E-mail: harmonyov@harmonyclub.cz
Website: www.harmonyclub.cz

Harmony Club Hotel

The Harmony Club Hotel has a total of 156 rooms of which 83 are single rooms, 68 are double rooms and 3 are suites. All the rooms have their own private bathroom and WC, a television and telephone with its own direct line. The suites also have a mini-bar. Special features of the Manager's single rooms are the business facilities including computer so that you can carry working in your room. Congress services with different rooms and a capacity ranging from 8 to 80 persons are also available.

Brno

Hotel Voronež****

Krížkovského 47
603 73 BRNO
Tel.: +420 543 14 1111
Fax: +420 543 21 2002
Email: accom@voronez.cz
Website: www.voronez.cz

Hotel Voronež

The quality of accommodation meets the highest standards of those most demanding guests. The dining services are provided in the restaurant and Grill-bar, and you can also spend the end of the day in the traditional luxurious nightclub "The Balvenie" which features live musical production. The indoor day bar is designated for short meetings with your friends or with your business partners. The 369 rooms, suites and business suites are equipped with bathroom, WC, mini-bar, telephone with direct-dialling option and connection for PC/fax modems. The hotel also offers the largest congress centre in the region with the most modern technical amenities including equipment for videoconferencing. The congresses might include up to 800 persons, the balls 350 - 500 persons and we offer also facilities for company presentations.

Decin

Hotel Ceská Koruna

Masarykovo namesti 60
405 01 Decin 1
Czech Republic

Hotel Ceská Koruna

Tel: 00420 412 516 104 and 00420 / 412 / 516 250
Fax: 00420 412 519 086
Email: info@hotelceskakoruna.cz
Website: www.hotelceskakoruna.cz

The hotel Ceska Koruna is located in the central part of Masaryk Square near the Decin's castle. The town Decin is an ideal starting point for tours and trips to the Bohemian Swtitzerland and Labe Sandstone Region. The town itself offers to its visitors a wide range of cultural and sporting entertainment such as the museum, two thermal swimming pools, tennis courts, indoor sports stadium etc. The hotel offers accommodation of a total capacity 86 beds, in rooms equipped with a bathroom, telephone, colour TV set with Satellite programmes, PC network interconnecting suites especially for entrepreneurs and businessmen. A distinction of the Hotel Ceská Koruna is the winter and summer garden which can be alternatively modified according to individual wishes of customers including musical performance suitable for collective tours or other events.
Karlovy Vary.

Grandhotel Brno

Benešova 18-20
Brno - 65783
Czech Republic
tel.: 00420 542 518 111
fax: 00420 542 210 345
Website: www.grandhotelbrno.cz
Email: reservation@grandhotelbrno.cz



The Grandhotel Brno is located in front of the Brno's Main Railway Station and the city center is only a step away. It would be one of the most convenient hotels in Brno, for business men. The hotel has 110 rooms and suites with bath/shower, radio, minibar, satellite- and Pay-TV, direct-dial telephone (analog modem ports RJ11, voice-mail), hairdryer, electronic safe deposit box and international press.


The possibility to have a non-smoking room is always available. For those travelers with car, there is also a guarded parking in front of the hotel. Other facilities we can find in Grandhotel Brno are: Sauna and fitness-room. A beautiful Garden Restaurant and a Bistro, a Night-Club and a Grand Casino are also good reason for choosing this hotel. Grandhotel Brno offers to its clients the possibility to arrange conferences, meetings and celebrations with many different rooms and halls available depending on the number of attendants.


This interesting and comfortable hotel offers to his clients the possibility to have special rates by making the reservation by internet.

Grandhotel Brno belongs to the prestigious group of Austria Hotels International (www.austria-hotels.at)

· Karlovy Vary

Parkhotel Richmond

Slovenská 567/3
36001 Karlovy Vary
Czech Republic
tel.: 00420 353 226 326
fax: 00420 353 177 111
Website: www.richmond.cz
Email: reservation@richmond.cz



The Richmond Parkhotel is located in a very nice and calm part of Karlovy Vary, on the bank of the Tepla river and it is surrounded by an English-style park. In this park we can find an original Japanese meditation garden and a lovely small pavilion with a well called Stephanie. The Richmond Hotel can be proud of its history of more than 160 years already. The entire capacity of the hotel is 147 beds. Each room is equipped with a satellite-TV, telephone, minibar and safe box. In the hotel you will also find a tasteful and stylishly furnished restaurant, café with a summer-terrace, piano bar and a billiard - lounge. Hotel Richmond's pride and joy is the banqueting hall built in the classicist style for up to 250 people. It is possible to take advantage of the free guarded lot.



Apart from the traditional complete spa treatment Parkhotel Richmond also offers special programs, such as an anti-stress program, diabetic program, program with gerovital treatments, weight-loss-program and others. All the medical treatments, such as aquatherapy, underwater-massages, carbonic baths, medical mud wraps, paraffin, acupuncture and others are performed in the medical section of the hotel.



Spa Hotel Richmond specializes in treatment of obesity, diabetes mellitus arteriosclerosis, gastroentrerologic diseases, (diseases of stomach, liver gall bladder, pancreas and intestines),
locomotor system diseases (spinal column and joints).

Richmond hotel has also a nice swimming pool, and a sauna.

Spa Hotel Smetana-Vysehrad****

Krale Jiriho 7
360 01 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 17 32 42 111
Fax: +420 17 32 21 080
Website: http://www.hotel.cz/smetana
Email: spahotel.smetana@plz.pvtnet.cz

Spa Hotel Smetana-Vysehrad

The Spa Hotel Smetana-Vysehrad, completely refurbished in 1993, is located in a beautiful part of the famous spa town of Karlovy Vary. The hotel has 7 apartments, 5 single and 42 double rooms, all equipped with bathroom, WC, mini-bar, satellite reception, telephone, TV. Dogs are permitted. During the spa treatment stays, the hotel provides the guests with bathrobes and slippers. Spring water for the guests is delivered to the hotel every day. Restaurant with Czech and international cuisine, coffee-house, garden-terrace, parking, safe, wash and ironing, shoe cleaning, children attendance, medical services, exchange office, lift, sauna, solarium, horseback riding, mountain-bike rental. One of the most specialized hotels in the bath region of Karlovy Vary, the Spa Hotel Smetana-Vysehrad is also visited by the crew of Aeroflot Airlines every year, where their pilots get to relax and enjoy the anti stress therapies during two entire weeks.

The Spa Hotel Smetana-Vysehrad offers a full treatment focused primarily on curing the metabolic disorders, gastro-enterologic diseases and providing regeneration stays. The treatment is provided in a friendly setting of the on-house spa treatment facilities providing all types of massages, baths, etc. The hotel specialties: metabolic problems, disorders of glands and the digestion tract. Additional spa treatments: bubble bath, carbonated bath, hydroxeur, underwater massage, reflex massage, classic massage, galvanic bath, phangowrap, curapulse, acupuncture, oxygen-therapy, gas injection, inhalation, pneumopuncture, dry carbonated bath, bionic-lamp, cryotherapy, medical gymnastic, sauna, whirlpool.

Hotel Dvorák

Nová Louka 11
360 21 Karlovy Vary
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 353 102 111
Fax: +420 353 102 119
Email: dvorakkv@mbox.vol.cz
Website: http://www.hotel-dvorak.cz

Hotel Dvorák

The Hotel Dvorák, managed by Vienna International is one of the nicest and most famous hotels in Karlovy Vary. The Hotel is open all year round and offers 106 modern rooms (76 standard rooms, 20 comfort-rooms and 10 apartments). All rooms are fitted with bathroom, direct-dial telephone, satellite TV, PAY-TV, radio, mini-bar and hair dryer. The comfort-rooms are additionally equipped with individually controlled air-conditioning, trouser press, in-room safe as well as a connection computer or fax. The hotel is equipped with its own treatment centre run by a medical specialist and his staff. Treatment and dietary programs are tailored to the individual needs of the patient. The treatment centre is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day of the week, allowing guests to organize their schedules as they wish.
The Hotel Dvorák is your Spa Hotel in Karlovy Vary. Situated in the heart of the city centre, it offers a nice and warm atmosphere for all the guests ready to enjoy the relaxing pool, sauna and steam bath. In order to present the better conditions for the treatment centre, the precise number and type of treatment procedures are prescribed by the doctor, according to the condition of the patient's health. The hotel offers has to a fitness centre, a piano bar, and a restaurant.

Ceské Budejovice

Hotel Gomel

Pražká 14
Ceské Budejovice - 37004
Czech Republic
tel.: 00420 387 311 390
fax: 00420 387 311 365
Website: www.gomel.cz
Email: hotel@gomel.cz

Hotel Gomel

Hotel Gomel has been for several years one of the most important hotels in the centre of Ceské Budejovice. It is located five minutes walking distance from the Old town and the city's main square. This hotel has 418 beds in single and double rooms as well as 6 suites, what makes a total number of 188 rooms equipped with bathrooms and hair dryers, color televisions sets with satellite reception, radio and telephone with the option of internet connection.
A comfortable sit-down lounge within the hall and the snack bar attached welcomes the guests, while in the reception part there is exchange office, information service, hotel taxi and gift shop at disposal. Those who like excitement are not likely to miss the hotel casino during night. The guarded parking site can reserve proper place for your car and/or coach. An excellent team creates the better atmosphere for guests to be in this nice and comfortable hotel.

Hotel Malý Pivovar

Karla IV, 8-10
Ceské Budejovice - 37001
Czech Republic
tel.: 00420 386 360 471
fax: 00420 386 360 474
Website: www.budweiser.cz
Email: sudek@budvar-hotel.cz

Hotel Malý Pivovar

The Hotel Malý Pivovar offers to its guests comfort in every season and luxury accommodation in 25 stylistic furnished rooms and 4 apartments in the most beautiful part of the historical centre of the town Ceské Budejovice. This hotel offers 12-hour room service, exchange-office, laundry, flower service as well as guarded hotel parking area. The reception will arrange a guiding and an interpreting service, tickets, cultural programs and sports experiences, including horse riding, fishing and hunting, according to the wishes of the guests. All rooms have a bathroom and WC, minibar, satellite TV and telephone with a direct line.
The refinement of the hotel is, among the gourmet public, associated with the repute of excellent cuisine with a wide selection of original South Bohemian and international specialties and beer with some body to it that comes directly from the Budvar´s kegs. The specialty of Budweiser Budvar being the host is also an invitation for the accommodated guests to the famous brewery, as well as tasting.
Every place in the hotel building has a unique atmosphere. The visitor can choose from the representative places of the U Královské peceti Restaurant, typical spirit of the U Haška Music Wine Bar, intimacy of the Café - Confectionery, lounges or summer garden. Popular South Bohemian brass bands often play in the cozy location of the traditional Budvarka Beer House.
The peaceful atmosphere that is filled with the fine aroma of the cakes is ideal for private meetings and talks to friends. All generations of visitors with pleasure spend an enjoyable time here.

Grand Hotel Zvon

Nám. Premysla Otakara II, 28
Ceské Budejovice - 37001
Czech Republic
tel.: 00420 387 311 384
fax: 00420 386 358 929
Website: www.hotel-zvon.cz

Ceské Budejovice

Grand Hotel Zvon is a cultural and historical monument with a tradition, which goes back to 1553. Its historical value is proven by the restored fresco decoration in the hotel´s main hallway of its hand-carved ceiling from 17 th century.
In the course of the last few years, the hotel has undergone a thorough reconstruction, both in its accommodation and restaurant sections.

The hotel has a capacity of 75 comfortable rooms, 20 of them overlooking the main square of Ceské Budejovice. Each room has its private bath with shower or bath-tub, a WC, a satellite TV set and a direct dialling phone extension. Some rooms are equipped with a mini-bar.gone a thorough reconstruction, both in its accommodation and restaurant sections.

For meals, hotel guests can choose their favourite place from four hotel restaurants. The first floor has two of them - Cafe Restaurant Mozart and Restaurant Gourmet Symphony. When entering the Restaurant Gourmet Symphohy you will be welcomed by our hotel bar. The hotel ground floor houses another restaurant - Staroceská rychta. Staroceská rychta is a brasserie with period furnishings serving specialities of the local cuisine.


Previous Read on Next