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6 Kupelna
Strbske Pleso
Slovakia
Tel: 421 52 3262 222
On the shores of a lake in a fairy-tale resort town by the magnificent Tatras mountains, which straddle the Slovakian-Polish border, the 98-room Grand Hotel Kempinski High Tatras is set to put Europe's wildest peaks on the map for skiers and hikers in search of something different. The turreted main building, originally constructed in 1906, has been gloriously renovated and expanded, with an annex where many of the rustically chic guest rooms are now situated. Front-desk staff welcome you with a glass of mulled wine, and the cozy rooms have ginger-stained waxed oak floors, big built-in wardrobes, a deep-in-the-woods color scheme of fawn, butternut, and spruce green, and dramatic black-and-white photographs of the surrounding mountains. Other details lend the hotel an updated old-world atmosphere: A settee upholstered in a pretty fawn-and-bronze cut velvet looks like something from a 1930s first-class carriage in Central Europe. At the stunning Grand Restaurant, complete with a huge stone fireplace and a high coffered wooden ceiling haloed by turn-of-the-twentieth-century-style brass globe-light chandeliers, the focus is on Continental cuisine.
Which room to book: A lakeview double in the original hotel building, not the annex.
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