Nouvelle Prague!
Ken Scrudato
March 16, 2008
Following a recent onslaught of trendy everythings in the once scruffy Czech capital, comes now a pair of gleaming 21st Century hotels. The sleek new 305-room Hilton Prague Old Town flaunts David Collins interiors inspired by Czech Modernism and Cubism, as well as an outpost of London’s Maze eatery, Gordon Ramsay’s first foray into the East. And the new Imperial Hotel, an Art Deco masterpiece that had faded into a grubby but weirdly opulent student flop, has just been glamorously gussied up.
Its dazzling, listed interiors left unscathed, it now has elegant furnishings and five-star service. The mosaic-lined Café Imperial, which recently appeared alongside Edward Norton in The Illusionist, has been reverently preserved. Au revoir, la bohème!
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Posted by mary robertson on Mon Jun 16, 2008 at 11.00 am
I stayed in Hilton hotel in Prague and was very happy as it has perfect location near Old Town Square. I could observe the astronomical clock Orloj from this Prague hotel and I heard clock Orloj was incorporated into the structure in 1490. Every hour, a small trap door opens and Christ followed by the twelve Apostles marches out. Crowds of tourists are always waiting for that moment, but I could see it from my window at any time!