Prague in the palm of your hand and only yours. How to sleep in an apartment for 100 thousand
Maybe I think you’ll just turn off perfectly far out in the mountains. That it is necessary to escape from Prague for adventure. But we tested the ultimate stay for you. This is the kind of vacation you don’t go anywhere but stay at home. More precisely – from work instead of home you take a tram to Charles Bridge. Target? Four seasons.
The first thing everyone, but everyone who knew where I spent the night, asked me was: So what? It was worth it? No good morning or how are you, but straight to the point.
So I’ll get to the point too. Happened. Mom, boss, friends, it’s worth it. Sleeping in the Premier Suite of the Four Seasons Hotel in Prague and waking up with a view of the sun-drenched Prague Castle is a blessing, even though the 100,000 they charge for the night may come to you as non-Christian.
You may be reassured that this seventh-floor room, which is exactly four times larger than my apartment, is not the most expensive Four Seasons has to offer. The first belongs to the presidential suite in a baroque residence two floors down. It comes to a nice 150,000 – and more, depending on the season – per night, but the view, the absolutely fantastic, unobstructed view directly from the bed to the panorama of Charles Bridge, Lesser Town and the Castle, is a fous better from here.
It is said to be a place made for those who know that Fabergé’s eggs do not belong in a pan. But before they let you into the bowels of the most expensive hotel in Prague, you have to pass another test.
„36.1. Thanks, all right. Welcome to Four Seasons, ”the porter tells me after he stopped me at the door with a helpful apology and pointed a non-contact thermometer at me. I sit at the front desk, where I hear another echo of the time: “Can I add water, disinfectant or a veil?”
A few minutes later, Martin Dell, the hotel’s manager, explains to me that this is what a new era of luxury looks like. Make every effort to ensure that guests are sure that their holiday will be covid-free. That’s why you always ride alone in the elevator, they don’t accommodate you in the room next to other guests, and at the entrance they measure everyone without temperature. “Me,” Dell adds.
If the thermometer measures you over 37 degrees Celsius, you will get a chance to cool down first, if you just haven’t been overheated on a hot day. “We’ll put you in a special rest room, offer you a glass of water, exhale, and measure you in no time,” Dell said. If the temperature does not drop, you will be given the opportunity to book an appointment, or you will be accommodated in isolation, where the room service will come to you in a special protective suit.
At the same time, these rules are the same for all Four Seasons hotels around the world, lined with experience from the weeks when the flagship of the entire chain in Manhattan accommodated front-line paramedics. The management thus gained invaluable experience in keeping the place where hundreds of potentially infected people meet disinfected every day.
At the end of May and with bottles scented with essential oils, a new era of luxury has arrived in Prague as well – so you can turn off the vigilance against the virus to fully immerse yourself in old-world luxury.
It will remind you how you love carpets with hair so high that the trunk wheels almost get stuck in it, and so soft that as soon as the room door clicks behind you, you drop your pumps and want to wade through the carpet. To sink into it like a bellows.
That’s exactly what they thank, because it can easily happen that you simply kick your ass after entering the room. And it’s always better to land in the soft. Yes, the view has fallen, but until you see it for yourself, you just won’t believe it.
The castle, the picturesque roofs and alleys of Malá Strana, but also Charles Bridge without tourists who stayed outside the borders, as if they belonged only to you. Just reach out and touch.
No other hotel in Prague has such a view, and when you see with your own eyes, you will immediately understand why Madonna, Sean Connery, Lionel Messi and the crowds of presidents are choosing this place as their Prague base.
I can’t help but wonder if they also had the urge to run around the apartment and start counting how many steps it takes to get from one side to the other. In the end, your legs almost hurt.
But the luxury of the night here is not just about the endless space he is used to, or the marble bathroom, or the cabinets you enter and walk through. Although, of course, they have it all here and they do the most comfortable scenery.
The secret of a holiday in your own city – yes, in the last two weeks, the Four Seasons have really welcomed the most guests from Prague – is already cursed in that word. Afford. Let go of all the ordinary worries down the Vltava, let the foam of the days flow and switch to the “I don’t need anything” mode, which you normally experience in Venice, Manhattan or Bali.
But the world, wonder, it goes here too, in the center of Prague. And damn good.
All you have to do is jump the arrow into the bed and roll in the silk duvets, from which you won’t even want to get up in the morning. The best part is that you don’t have to. Because you have a vacation, and on top there is breakfast in bed.
Of course, it also makes sense that you are the Hollywood star today. They simply manage to treat guests here, surrounded by an aura of care, attention and the knowledge that nothing is impossible. That he will fulfill your every wish, whether you sleep in a room for 100,000 or ten times cheaper.
And that is the resolution of the questions why you should go on holiday to the Vltava and sleep in the most expensive hotel in the Czech Republic. Because now, right now, it’s a mouthful.
If you are not yet ready to give as much for a night at the hotel as for a used car, you will find almost the same view in other premium rooms and suites, which in Four Seasons in a limited offer offer for a fraction of the original price.
The hotel does not advertise it publicly, but if you call Four Seasons, you will learn that until the end of July you can stay in a room overlooking the river and the castle for 230 euros. And in a 70-meter apartment with the same panorama for 330 euros. Current price before the crisis? Two thousand.
In addition, a generous discount is not the only thing the hotel wants to attract home guests. Welcome drink on the terrace starts, ends with late check-out. In addition, a voucher for five hundred to one of the hotel’s three restaurants, a 30 percent discount on treatments at the local AVA spa and the possibility to accommodate children under 12 free of charge.
All this is a part that Prague palms call here.
But you know what? Leave the children at home. Give them to Grandma and enjoy it here yourself. Be for one self, it’s insanely liberating at times – and completely impunity here. Just take a dip in the hotel pool, which you will only have for yourself at the time of the coronavirus, and let yourself be massaged with bubbles and a feeling of well-being.
In Cotto Crud, the larger hotel restaurant, then start the evening with Onsen egg with mushrooms and black truffles and have a delicious dairy veal as a main course. If you are more of an Asian fusion, you will be thrilled by the MIRU pop-up on the roof terrace, with five tables, it’s a pleasantly intimate affair outside.
And if you are desperately missing Italy and balmy summer nights. in the gardens of the taverns, the local Piazzetta, with a glass of wine and a magical view, will help you from the withdrawal symptoms.
This is how la dolce vita – da Praga tastes. Ultimate staycation, ultimate brain restart after two months in quarantine, ultimate luck with a single hook.
That you won’t want to go home from here.