The discount weekend price (by phone) for the least expensive room for two people was exactly 96.62 euros! Well, without breakfast. In the internet hotel webpage the price was some 10 euros higher. Larger rooms cost some 15 euros more. Other Warsaw 3 - 5 stars hotels at similarily convenient location cost only a few euros less. Those located in ugly downtown/centre cost some 20 euros less but you would probably spend that money for taxis to the Old Town.
GENERAL HOTEL TIPS FOR WARSAW
1. If you used to stay in 3-star hotels in, say, the USA or Western Europe, do not hesitate to start looking for a hotel in Warsaw from 5-star hotels, especially for weekends. You may start from here
2. Pay attention to location of the hotel, the best are in or close to the Old Town (Stare Miasto) or the Royal Way (Krakowskie Przedmiescie St. + Nowy Swiat St.) - safe area day and night; if it's important for you to have a nice setting for a walk do not take a hotel in ugly (and maybe not that safe at night) centre/downtown.
3. Prices are lower (10 - 50%) for weekend nights (Fri/Sat/Sun) as most hotels are used by business in Poland.
4. It's often cheaper (some 10%) to make a reservation by call. Think over it. You also may ask by phone about transfer from airport/train station. It costs extra and the price is usually not given on hotel webpages. If possible save money using skype for calls to Poland. It works quite good at least from Europe.
Haha, the best were those guys in costumes who opened doors for me then and back... :-). Well, the hotel offers comfortable transfer from the airport by Mercedes S with English speaking driver awaiting you in arrival terminal with a table with your name written on. It cost some 90 zl (23 euros), back to the airport some 60 zl. It's strange but the hotel doesn't have own guarded parking (only on a street). They offer (extra charge) valet guarded parking lot in nearby Sofitel Victoria hotel. It may take some 15-20 min. to bring a car from there, I guess.
Numerous hotel facilities are given in hotel webpage. My room was not very large but fully equipped and had very comfortable bed and window view to the Polish White House, the Presidential Palace (we had a new one since a month but I didn't see him through my hotel window).
The staff at reception was ready to do whatever we wanted. When I asked about re-booking Tasia's train ticket back to Minsk, Belarus they wanted to send a driver with the ticket to the train station (it was Saturday afternoon and all tourist offices were closed). When Urszula wanted to sew a button back a chambermaid brought her a sewing set in a minute. When lifts/elevators didn't work I called to the lobby (there are phones by each lift doors) and a hotel boy came to us by the lift and excused that they were forced to have 15 min. technical break each day.
For those having a laptop an Internet in hotel room is expensive, some 70 zl per 24 hours (compare: 4-6 zl per hour in internet cafe). Urszula lent Toyin her favourite and lovely cap and the cap disappeared from his room. The next morning they found it, the cleaning lady took it out, probably by mistake, it was nothing expensive but it shouldn't have happened!
