This hotel is extremely over-rated. My rating of this hotel is negative, negative, star-1. When we arrived, only one man was there to check us in. No one else was around, which was very odd. But we went ahead and stayed because we found it more difficult to look for a replacement hotel. We decided to join a couple of packaged tours. When we arrived from our tour, the hotel was very dark. We have to scramble on the walls to search for the light switch to turn on the lights. Even the surrounding of the hotel is dark too. So walking around in the area can be dangerous. They also listed available amenities on this hotel: shuttle service, high speed internet, restaurant. NONE of these exists!! The breakfast was bad too, they served us days old salami! The worst was there was NO HOT WATER!! We also had to arrange for our own transportation to be picked up. We never saw the man who checked us in. No one else was in the hotel except this one non-English speaking lady who only goes to the hotel during the day to probably clean. Very, very bad service. Very, very bad hotel.. Will never, ever recommend this hotel to anyone.

This place is clean and cheap but I would never stay here again. We arrived in Prague at about 6:30 a.m. and were told we could drop our luggage at reception and come back at 2pm to check in. When we got there, no one answered the door and it was freezing out, so we sat in front with our luggage. Luckily the woman who serves breakfast happened to show up around 7:30 and let us in. After this, we walked around for about 7 hours trying to kill time. Once we came back to check in (it's a long uphill walk from the city to this hotel) there was still no one to check us in. We called and finally someone came about 1/2 hour later. The room was ok, kind of small and no shower curtain. That night we decided to book a different room at Prague Centre Apartments for a few crowns more and that place was a PALACE in comparison, plus was actually in town. I would not feel safe walking through Kinsky Garden late at night to the Hotel Vanicek. Might be a good place for old folks and families w/ small children, but not for anyone looking to explore Prague and actually go out at night. Bad.

A nice little hotel but as other reviews have said it is a little out of the way. Buses are frequent so this is not so much of a problem. Otherwise it is about a 20-25 minute stroll through Kinsky Garden which is very pleasant but can be hard work as there are some very steep areas.

Staff were polite and very helpful and all the reception staff I encountered spoke excellent English. The hotel is very clean and the room was a reasonable size. Only real complaint was that there was no shower curtain which led to the bathroom floor getting very wet.

A very resonably priced hotel but rather too far from the city to walk. Surounding roads rather steep. Breakfast was fair but the staff are friendly and helpful.

Forget the taxi's as most of them are dishonest. The hotel is well served by an excellent bus service which links to the metro. Buy a day pass.

The city is lovelly, but eat and drink off the main drag if you want quality and value for money.