Ulasan Ametyst Hotel Praha

Hotel Ametyst is in a quieter residential part of town which is just a 10 min walk from the nearest Metro station and in easy reach of many shops, cafes and good quality restaurants. I’d particularly recommend Ngo, A Vietnamese café around 9 mins walk away. There is a small convenience store next door with an impressive range of cold drinks and snacks. From the Metro station, the whole city is at your disposal and it’s a very easy system to navigate. It’s also not far to walk to Wenceslas Square. The hotel lobby has a bit of a dated feel about it but we were warmly greeted by reception staff and checked in. This did take a little while and much of it was done on paper which was a bit surprising. Be aware there is a city tourist tax you have to pay the hotel (we were not aware of this) of approx. CZK50 per person per day, so factor this into your budget. We were also charged a ‘mini bar’ deposit of about CZK2000. This was quite a hit to our pre-planned budget before our holiday had even started and another charge we weren’t aware of in advance. We had no plans at all to use the mini bar so this seemed excessive for that reason and I’d have rather have had the mini bar removed from the room. Maybe it was just a general hotel deposit but just badged as being about the mini bar or maybe we misunderstood that – anyway, just to be aware to also factor this into your budget. The deposit, as promised was returned to our credit card the day after we returned home. Our room was on the 5th floor and one of only 2 rooms in that particular corridor. We didn’t once hear our immediate neighbours or anyone else and had a lovely quiet stay. The room was nicely decorated, had a huge comfortable bed and a nice modern bathroom with walk in shower. Housekeeping tended to be a bit random in that some days we didn’t get a loo roll top up or fresh towels (didn’t need them every day anyway), and we didn’t get any further tea/coffee top ups past the first day. We were however left a surprise complimentary gift one day which was really kind and thoughtful, and many thanks for that. Sadly, the air con wasn’t working in the room which did mean some hot sticky nights as we visited in the midst of a mini heatwave and there was little breeze from the open window. We did report this but were told there was an issue throughout the hotel and it wasn’t just our particular room. It would have been lovely to have got out of the outside heat into an air conditioned room but it didn’t spoil our stay and these things happen. Although breakfast was included in our stay, we chose to eat in some of the lovely local cafes around instead just because there was so much choice, so I can’t comment on the quality of that. Check out was 11am and our flight home was in the evening but it was no trouble for the hotel to store our luggage for us to collect later. Given how busy the city was when we visited, I really liked the slightly out of town location away from the bustle of the crowds but withi