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Brief Hotel Description

Hotel Questenberk has a long and rich history reaching back to the 17th century. This baroque building began offering accommodations in very comfortable rooms in a romantic style after its comprehensive reconstruction, which took place in 2003 and partially in 2008.
The hotel is located just a short walk away from the Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral between the Strahov Monastery and Loreta right in the historical centre of “Golden Prague”. It offers a unique and very romantic view of the historical part of the city. You can easily get to the centre, to shopping areas as well as to entertainment and especially to the old part of Prague in a pleasant approximately ten-minute walk.

Hotel guests have at their disposal 26 double rooms included 4 king suites.
Each room is equipped by an original furniture an charming decorated.
They dispose of marble bathrooms with bathtub or a shower, hairdryer, direct-dial phone, sat TV,fax modem connection, private safe box and a minibar.

Family suites consist of two regular double rooms each with private bathroom and are connected by a lounge.

Business suites have separated meeting room for 6 people.

A non-smoking rooms and connecting rooms/suits are available.

Parking:
For hotel guests could be arranged safe and paid parking or underground garage near by.

Rooms


Each room is tastefully equipped with original furniture and all social amenities are a matter of course. We have single, double and deluxe double rooms (with a view of the Prague Castle or Lesser Town) ready for our guests as well as three Royal apartments (with two bedrooms and a living room with a sofa). Each room comes equipped with a television with a satellite connection, a fax/modem or internet connection, wireless internet throughout the hotel, a direct-dial telephone, safe and minibar. We can also lend you a DVD player, iron and ironing board, crib and children's seat, electric kettle and the like upon request. You are met by a doorman when arriving at the hotel. A twenty-four hour reception is at your disposal including services that have been prepared for you. These include, for example, discounts in the form of coupons for our partner hotels and in our other three restaurants in the historical centre of Prague, currency exchange, trips to the monumental spots in the capital city and beyond, to castles and chateaus, with or without a guide. We also arrange transport throughout Prague including rides in luxury limousines and also transportation beyond the borders of the Czech Republic. You can use our dry cleaning service, interpreters and translating service. We offer parking right at the hotel for our guests for a fee or a private parking lot 300 metres away from the hotel, protected with a camera system. All of the rooms are equipped with smoke and fire detectors. We have a stylishly-designed club room with an LCD television for our hotel guests.

The hotel breakfast is served daily from 7:00 to 10:30 a.m. in the hotel restaurant with a beautiful view of the Prague panorama. We prepare a buffet breakfast including a la carte selections, included in the price of the accommodations.

Restaurant
The hotel restaurant with a beautiful view of the Prague Castle, Lesser Town, Petřín hill or Strahov Monastery is located in the former baroque chapel (now deconsecrated) and it will certainly make your stay even more pleasant. In this unconventional environment we prepare lunches and dinners, banquets, conferences and we provide a pleasant environment for business meetings. The restaurant offers old-Bohemian, Czech and international cuisine along with meals from fresh fish and seafood. You can use the hospitality of our hotel bar and room service every day until midnight. On sunny days we open a garden restaurant in our hotel’s courtyard.

History
The building at the address Úvoz 15, Prague 1 – Hradčany, in which the Hotel QUESTENBERK originated following the extensive reconstruction in 2003, has a rich history reaching back to 1610. Questenberk Palace was built in 1665-68 along with the St. Elizabeth and St. Norbert Hospital by Hans Georg Gottwieck evidently from his own design. The façade went through high and late baroque modifications, during which a new staircase was built and the façade modified. Rudolph II contributed to the establishment of the hospital, as is evident from his rescript from February 18th, 1610. We actually know nothing about the actual hospital, nor when it was exactly built – its construction first appears much later, in 1622, under the Abbot Kašpar Questenberk, who is also the founder according to the descriptive panel above its entrance. While the construction of the original hospital grew from the foundations up, as period rhetoric reveals, it is likely that the structure of an older building got into the shell of the construction. The creator of this structure was evidently Melchior Meer, who worked for Questenberk in the 1620’s and 30’s. The foundation instrument from 1625 has been preserved and it tells us that while the hospital stood on the monastery grounds, it was beyond the monastery gates, and it was endowed with “splendid work along with the chapel of its patron St. Elizabeth.' Today you can visit these places in our restaurant. The surrounding terrain has also changed with respect to its original state, which was higher and only later dropped sharply to Úvoz Street. Access is provided by a later staircase from 1726 with stairs from the side, protected by a full balustrade, and supplemented by statuary with a Calvary collection. There is a striking statue of St. Mary Magdalene on one side of the reinforcing pillar at the accession to the stairs with a statue of St. John on the other side. There is a sandstone copy of a statue of the Virgin Mary of Sorrows under a cast-iron figure of the crucifixion from the 19th century in the middle of the staircase, projecting into the street in a semicircle.