Four Seasons Hotel Prague
The Four Seasons Prague was developed on the site of three historic buildings, and the staff worked closely with the city's Department of City Development and the Ancient Monuments Department to comply with its strict building and preservation codes. The city dictates that new buildings must not mimic a historical style, and that historical buildings must be preserved; so the local architecture firm Dum a Mesto faced the challenge of maintaining the original features of an 18th century Baroque building, a neo-Classical factory built in 1827 and a neo-Renaissance apartment building from 1883 and connecting them with a new sandstone structure to create a seamless interior space. The result is a hotel that reflects the city's rich architectural history, but offers modern amenities and total comfort.
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The Four Seasons' location on the Vltava means that many of the guest rooms and public rooms have panoramic views of the city's Lesser Quarter. If you're not fortunate enough to have a window on the river, reserve a table on the 45-seat terrace of the hotel restaurant, Allegro (patio is open from March/April until September), and watch the sun go down over Prague Castle.
Allegro is the hotel's only restaurant, but its Mediterranean-influenced menu will please with fresh, carefully treated ingredients and an extensive wine list that includes many Czech and Moravian selections. There are some winners among local reds, but the region's white wines and excellent beers are often a better bet. The truly adventurous can try an absinthe at the bar. |
The hotel's spacious rooms are among the largest in the city and filled with Italian furnishings and fabrics and wall coverings in gentle yellows, coral browns and greens. The in-room safe is large enough for a laptop and you can select from hundreds of CDs for the player in your room. All bathrooms have a deep, soaking tub; sleek marble and glass shower; a separate room for the loo; a lighted, magnifying make-up/shaving mirror; and verbena-scented lotions and soaps from L'Occitane. The bathrooms in the suites all have Samsung flat-screen TVs and Bulgari toiletries.
The Four Seasons' beds, created for the hotel by Sealy, are made even more comfortable by down comforters and pillows covered in milky white Rivolta linens. All of the kings are true king beds, without the limb-swallowing gap in the middle, and they all but guarantee a deep, jet lag-easing sleep.
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