Prague has a handful of luxury hotels whose best suites are something special – historic buildings, views of Prague Castle and the rooftops of Malá Strana, and interiors you will remember. Here are five of them, with what makes their top rooms stand out. Suite prices depend on the season and are published on the hotels’ own websites. For more top-class hotels, see our list of 5-star hotels.
Aria Hotel – Art at Every Step
The Aria Hotel is a music-themed hotel in Tržiště street in Malá Strana, almost next door to the US Embassy. Its 51 rooms and suites are spread over four floors dedicated to contemporary, classical, opera and jazz music, and every room is named after an artist or composer.
Music is everywhere. The light-filled Winter Garden atrium, the heart of the hotel, has a concert-quality Bösendorfer grand piano, and the music library offers a large collection of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays covering every genre. There is also a private screening room, and the quiet Fireplace Lounge has shelves lined with hundreds of books, many of them about music. The hotel’s fine-dining restaurant is called CODA.
Suites with a garden view
Guests have their own entrance to the Vrtba Garden, Prague’s oldest Baroque garden and part of the UNESCO-listed historic centre, which is open from April to October. Six signature suites crown the hotel. The finest is the two-bedroom Mozart Luxury Suite on the fourth floor, with a splendid view of the Vrtba Garden; the Blues Luxury Suite is a spacious duplex with ceiling windows that also looks over the garden.
Golden Well Hotel (U Zlaté studně)
Romance with a homely atmosphere
The Golden Well Hotel, the Aria’s sister hotel, stands just below Prague Castle in Malá Strana and has a cosy, homely atmosphere and wonderful views of the city.
Even the way in is unusual: the hotel stands at the end of U Zlaté studně, a narrow dead-end lane. Rather than a presidential suite, it has rooms and a few suites, and the Tycho de Brahe and Rudolf II suites can compete with many presidential suites – the first looks over the Royal Gardens, the second over Prague’s skyline.
Many of the rooms have unforgettable views of Prague, and you can enjoy the same views from the hotel’s restaurant, Terasa U Zlaté studně, which serves Czech and international dishes on three terraces, two of them heated.
Le Palais Art Hotel
Belle Époque suites in Vinohrady
The five-star Le Palais Art Hotel is in U Zvonařky street in Prague 2, within walking distance of Wenceslas Square. It occupies a carefully restored 19th-century building where the painter Luděk Marold once lived and worked, and his original ceilings are still there. History and art are reflected in every corner: the interiors are decorated with works by Czech and international artists.
The hotel has 72 rooms and suites. Two of the largest suites, the Le Palais Suite and the Belvedere Suite, each have a bedroom, a hall with an antique desk and a large living room. The Belle Époque Suite has original ceiling frescoes, and the Balcony Suite has the hotel’s only balcony, looking out over the rooftops of Prague.
Mandarin Oriental
Oriental experience with an elegant terrace
The Mandarin Oriental, Prague is in a historic former monastery in Nebovidská street in Malá Strana. Many features of the original building have been kept, and its layout and relatively small size give it a calm, intimate feel.
The Two-Bedroom Presidential Suite is in a private tower in the Baroque wing, with a bedroom on the ground floor and the living room upstairs. Its terrace has panoramic views over Malá Strana and Prague Castle – modern comfort and old architecture side by side.
The Mark Luxury Hotel (formerly Kempinski Hybernská)
A Baroque palace near the Powder Tower
The Mark Luxury Hotel Prague opened in 2008 as the Kempinski Hybernská and is in Hybernská street, close to the Powder Tower, the Municipal House, the Old Town and Wenceslas Square, and to the shopping and business areas of the centre. The hotel occupies a restored 17th-century Baroque palace.
Its top suite is the Presidential Suite, one of several suites alongside the Bohemia, Executive, Duplex and Family suites, and the hotel has a fitness centre and spa.
