Warsaw Is No Prague

Where: Wilcza 73, Warsaw, Poland

5/09/2005 at 10:19 AM
Tags: Hotels

Whatever you do, don't call Warsaw "the new Prague." The city does not want to cash in by marketing themselves as a cheap Eastern European alternative for parsimonious westerners, instead, Warsaw is aiming to become a true cultural capital.

Ya know if you wanna be a cultural capital you gots to have a hot boutique hotel, right?  The 44 room Hotel Rialto is Warsaw's first boutique hotel.  The property doesn't skimp on amenities--flat-screen tvs, cd players, heated towel racks, marble floor, and spacious stone baths all make the Rialto a top notch Warsaw crash pad.  

What else?  You can snag a room for around $120 US dollars, and the Rialto has a young, eager to please staff, plus the property is the only boutique game in town.  

So what is missing?  An ironing board in the rooms.  Then again, who has time for ironing while touring through Eastern Europe?

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