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Sitting on a quiet corner in an quaint Baroque building that is, by Prague standards, simple, the 987 Prague Hotel (Map | Book) is a refreshing clean space in an increasingly crowded city. Especially if you visit Prague during the summer, you will find the city near filled to capacity with admiring visitors all clamouring to get a good look at just what makes the Golden City so golden.
Run by 987 Hotels, the 4-star Prague 987 has a sister hotel in Barcelona, and there is another in Prague, confusingly called the 987 Soho. It’s not surprising that we’ve been hearing a lot of Spanish around the breakfast area each morning, and the clean design seems to have attracted plenty of Scandinavian guests, as well.
The theme here is an incredibly modern, almost-space age atmosphere, complete with white bubble furniture and an orange, plastic, see-through lift, but all is done in autumnal hues of orange, brown, red and grey, lifting the warmth of the place over its incredibly stylised aesthetic.
A double room here is spacious enough by European standards and comes as a fully remodelled space within an older room, so you still benefit from the tall Central European windows and lofty ceiling. An outer sink is situated between the shower and toilet, which are very conveniently located in their own separate water closets.
Downtstairs, the lobby is punctuated by a long breakfast nook-slash-bar, where you can take in your free morning fare (which is quite an impressive spread of cold cuts, cheeses, fruits, breads, pastries, muesli and beverages) or eat a later meal or have a drink. The 987 Prague also offers room service.
Being that this is Prague, it is difficult to escape the familiar rumble of the street trams that constantly chug through the city, and indeed there is a tram line that runs adjacent to the hotel. The sweet sounds of trams running into the night is not enough to bother but the most sensitive sleepers, though, and has not even remotely been a problem for us.
The 987 Prague Hotel’s location is also quite convenient, as it is not entirely in the middle of the city, but on a less congested corner a few streets away. It takes about 5 minutes to walk to the gaping Wenceslas Square, and perhaps another 10 to make it to Old Town Square and the Charles Bridge. All things considered, they could not have picked a better locale if they tried.
The hotel’s free wifi service (in-room and lobby) has been an incredible convenience, as well, and the room has perhaps the largest number of outlet plugs of any hotel room I’ve ever stayed in.
To find a fault in the 987 Prague Hotel, for the first 24-hours we were staying here, our keys had to be re-coded at least four times, which was only a slight inconvenience, and the staff has been more than helpful with the process each time.
A night’s stay in the most basic of rooms at the 987 Prague Hotel (which still comes with wifi, flatscreen TV and minibar) runs an astonishingly cheap £71, while the Junior Suite, which has its own living room, is only £129 per night.
987 Prague Hotel
Senovážné náměstí 15, 110 00
Praha 1
+420-255-737-200-4
www.987hotels.com
