In a "quiet and secluded" location in the Mala Strana district, the hotel is a Renaissance-Baroque-contemporary mélange built around a 14th-century monasterythe spa's glass floor reveals the ruins of the former chapel. Perfect-scoring rooms have high ceilings and are individually furnished, though all come with parquet floors, woven rugs, and polished limestone bathrooms. Service goes "beyond expectations." Essensia mixes Asian and European influences in contemporary preparations such as Beskydy Mountain veal ossobucco.