Name: Hotel Karolina
Address: Novy Svet 101, Krkonose National Park, Krkonose National Park, Krkonose National Park, 51246, Czech Republic
Rating: 6

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Hotel Karolina

Krkonose National Park

Unfortunately our expectations were not met the hotel is Marode, which few staff could develop more energy, breakfast ok once 1 egg, not always just sausage, bread, buns enough, dinner buffet simple, but Pilsner original source rooms from standby would have to be overhauled, but the Giant Mountain gives compensation.

Winter

For us, it was the worst hotel in a long time. It's dark, completely rusty, the rooms are in poor condition, the bathroom was very shady and everything else left to be desired. It needs to be urgently renovated and remodeled.

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Three adults and three small children stayed at the hotel in August 2016. Very satisfied. The hotel is quite old, adding a certain aura. However, everything is very clean, neat, tidy. Excellent comfortable mattresses, good wifi signal throughout the entire hotel area.

Excellent hotel at a good price

The hotel is still in the old style for the area in the Riesengebirge but still cozy, good beer; easy to eat, breakfast enough, always everything on the buffet, the afternoon offer should be better.

hotel at the glassworks

We had a dinner in restaurant which is a part of the Hotel Karolina. Although the portions were generous, unfortunately the food was rather bland. I had "segedinsky gulas" literally with three small cubes of meat. Waiters were not attentive and looked bothered to serve us.

Personal restaurace vypadal jako by je obtezovalo nas obslouzit. Jidlo bylo bez chuti.

Bland food, poor service

The "Formanka" of Hotel Karolina is  a wild ride, replete with frothy pitchers of Gambrinus and VERY generous plates of Svitchkova and local game.

My old Ski School had meal tickets for the Formanka (It's still part of the Karolina), and we cold, hungry instructors were well-warmed and fed here.

This is NOT a tourist place; avoid at all costs if you refuse to try to speak Czech, or if you have an aversion to being stared at by muttering glass factory workers and ski resort employees.
If, however, you possess the chops to get past all that, you are in for a very unique, warm, drunk and filling experience.

The Hotel Karolina's "Formanka" has some of the best chow in Harrachov.

Tak, Cau!

Czech out the "Formanka", around to the side...

Traditional hotel with proper facilities (old photos, paintings, skis, butter pots... as a decoration), so no new-fashioned concrete cottage, bohemian cuisine (knoodles, lots of sausage, lots of cake), proper rooms, daily cleaning good location for hiking brewery and glass museum next door Very friendly, helpful staff, good knowledge of German and everything very cheap, so I can recommend it for a holiday in the beautiful Giant Mountains

Rustic, landscaped charm

My husband and I just spent 3 nights at this hotel because it was 3 k from the start of a World Loppet race in Poland.  The person at the desk spoke no English and seemed to be unaware of the big event, which had brought several international travelers to her hotel.  We were told we would have free wireless internet, which was untrue for us because they put us in their apartments, (without our having requested them), adjacent to the hotel,  Although the apartments were more spacious, we were depending on the internet to help us prepare for the race.  Also, they had us sleep on two narrow mattresses, which had been placed next to each other, on a frame that was a foot too short on each side.  I almost rolled out of bed several times!  We did have a good place to park our car, however.
The food, especially dinners, wasquite good.  If it weren't for a kind Dutch tourist, who translated the menu for us, we would not have known what to order.  They only had one waitress, occassionally helped by the bartender, to serve the entire dining room, which had at least 30 tables.  Of the entire staff in the hotel, there was one woman who spoke English, and she didn't work weekends, when we were there.  Our Spanish and French were of no help to us, either.
In general, the hotel was quite run down, broken shower, broken bathroom fan, broken handle on closet door, lights out by entry,  We needed to walk through a smoky bar or along a busy street, with no shoulder, to get to the restaurant.  While there we could not charge anything to our room or use Visa to pay for our dinners...Czech cash, only!
I realize I probably sound like a whiney American.  We travel extensively and use trip advisor a lot.  It would improve Karolina a great deal if they would fix the few little incidendals, get an English translation for the menu, and get the staff to smile a little more and be a little more welcoming.  After all, they all are in the tourist business.

What you should know before choosing to stay here

Ski holidays are always a bit risky... you may brake a leg on a slope while skiing :) However in Harrachov, slopes won't hurt you, as Hotel Karolina may... a property that I would qualify as a post soviet union hotel( I have my own sources for that...believe me!). Indeed during your stay in this hotel, while leaving it, you may be reversed by a car (as website photos don't show that the hotel is right at a main streets crossroads); you may also break your coxis on access stairs (both of us felt on the ice while leaving and nobody in the hotel noticed) or hurt your feet fingers on tricky doorways in your room... Satellite TV? Yes... in the pub...as in your room, just count on 2 blurry czech channels on a 36cms TV...room are spacious but... kind of failing post soviet union electricity, shower head and shower cabin were about to fall into pieces and the room had an undefined smell... An appeal for opening wide your window to remember how good is the fresh mountain air :) Swimming pool was out of order... and sauna schedule was full (meaning probably out of order too:) ...etc... Location is far from slopes (1.5 kms) but right next to bus station lines.
Evening staff was fun, friendly and nice (even though german skills needed)... Day staff was 'friendly' because 'had to' :)... 'helpful' because 'had to' :)
We have paid a high season discount rate (49€ per night) which is far away over evaluated for the quality of the stay (really nice hotels in Prague for this rate)... hopefully we were here for skiing and enjoying fresh mountain air :) Next time, if I go there, I'll choose a more humble pension...at least you know what you may have for a lower price...
Good points for being as much as possible objective: Nice and funny local antique design in the pub, enough to eat for breakfast (but no fruit juice except lemon sirop), wifi is all right, nice family atmosphere in the hotel
To end, this hotel is worthing MAXIMUM 2 stars according to western standards.

Are u post soviet union nostalgic?

Hi, I stayed at this hotel for two nights. Actually, I thought the hotel was okay, we just had quite a problem with the employees when we were going to leave in the morning. On Friday night, I was in the bar and my chair I was sitting on was already very old and broke under my weight. Then the hell broke out. A local wanted to check with me and I had to leave the bar to avoid an argument. It was really embarrassing to me and I got my neck and my head hurt. I thought that the thing was over. But the next morning the employees told me that I should pay 100 euros for the old one. But I found it completely unacceptable behind the old one. The owner of the ticket claimed that it was worth paying, so I just had to go to the old one. So if I didn't want to pay a lot more money for the old one, I probably would have to pay a lot more money for the old one, and I would have to go to the old one, so if I hadn't wanted to pay a lot more money for the old one, and I would have to go to the old one, so I would have to be

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