Yes, I took pictures in all of my hotel rooms, even of the toilets. I wanted to remember what they were like, and perhaps you are curious as well, so I’ll tell you all about them in general. You can see all the hotel room pictures here: http://poland.leonkonieczny.com/images/2010PolandTour/Hotel%20Rooms/index.html. We stayed in 8 different hotels in the 14 nights we were in Poland.
First of all, we stayed in very nice hotels everywhere we went. Before going, I had done a lot of reading on the Internet, trying to understand what I may need and what I may run into. Some places talked of rough toilet paper–I found none of that; rather, the T.P. was general, run-of-the-mill, ordinary hotel room stuff. Not your super-duper extra fluffy Charmin, but certainly adequate.
Then there were the warnings about the towels. They too were adequate. I’d say that only in Kraków and Wrocław were the towels extra-fluffy. The rest of the hotels, they were adequate though not overly soft. Still, they did their job.
There was not a washcloth or facecloth to be seen anywhere I went.
Most or all of the hotels put that fancy little “freshly disinfected” paper wrapper over the toilet, by the way.
Many of the toilets were dual flush. That is, there were two buttons, one for a short flush, and one for a more heavy duty “whoosh” of a flush. You get the picture and I’m sure understand the reason for the difference.
Several of our hotels had hotpots and instant coffee and tea in the rooms, but several did not. Where they did, there were also sugar packets (never sweetener though) and a little creamer cup or two.
Some of our hotels had only showers, some had shower tubs. All had showerheads with a flexible hose so you could remove or readjust or whatever.
One hotel, the one in Kraków, did not have a shower curtain. The tub was bigger than normal and somewhat round and also had like a seat on the side of it (it’s in the pictures, this one: http://poland.leonkonieczny.com/images/2010PolandTour/Hotel%20Rooms/slides/DSC_1214.JPG). The first day, I got quite a bit of water on the floor. Oops! I learned my lesson and was more careful the second day.
Some had towel warmers in them, that was a nice touch. They also served well as sock dryers, by the way.
All of my hotel rooms had Internet connections, some WiFi, some wired.
All or almost all of them had a device right by the door where you put in your magnetic room card. When you removed the card (as when you were going out), the lights went off. Thus you had to put in your card to keep the lights on. A good, energy efficient idea. Only my Kraków hotel did not have this feature, but then again, they didn’t even have magnetic door entry cards, they had old fashioned keys on huge metal keychains. Kinda quaint, though.
Most or all of them had a refrigerator and bar in them, stocked with an assortment of liquors, beers, and water. There was a price list nearby and you just paid for what you used when you checked out. Pretty cool, actually, though I never used it (there was always a liquor or other store close by with better prices).
All of the hotels were very clean, the staff was very friendly and helpful, and the rooms and bathrooms well kept. I’d stay at any of them again, in a heartbeat.
One thing that did strike me as different, though. In this country (the USA that is), I’m used to hearing a language other than the native language of our country spoken by the maids in the hotels–Spanish. And most of them seem to speak barely a lick of English. But in Poland, all of the maids and help appeared to speak Polish, the native language. I guess they were all in Poland legally….
I did not spend a lot of time in my hotel rooms when I was in Poland, mostly to sleep, clean up, and write my blog. The rest of the time I was out and about. But all of the rooms were very nice, I was very impressed with the accomodations there, and with their modernness. Very nice!
