a nice hotel with a very beautiful garden to take your breakfast. Public areas of the hotel are very clean. Bathrooms are nice and renovated. On the contrary rooms are descent, partially renovated and quite small. The furniture is old as well as the tv is not LCD as supposed to be for a 5 star hotel. Breakfast is nice but with no so rich variety, the area where it is served is spacious and airy. The only drawback is its location which is far away, not within a walking distance, from the city center. Also Krakow has traffic problems and this will spend part of your valuable time.

stayed at the crown piast hotel for 4 days 3 nights may 26th 2009-may 29th,2009.This really is a wonderful hotel.Bright,clean and modern.staff are very friendly and very efficient in a human way.all tours for anywhere can be booked from the hotel itself and are no dearer than anywhere else.Food is also excellent at the hotel.breakfast is a banquet.help yourself to eggs of every description,sausages,bacon,ham,cheeses,cereals,toast,coffee,fruit juice.Evening dinner is excellent too save on the taxi fare into town and eat in the hotel.The taxi fare into town is 20zlt about £4.25 a little dearer coming back because of one way system .after 10.30pm it is 50% more.Hotel has own taxi service provider and though they don,t speak english(why should they your in poland)they provide an honest and cheap service.Auswich £40 return with 4hour wait at the camp.Krakow is too beautiful to describe and is very cheap a 1/2 litre of beer £1.25 and that is in the main square.Go now while it is still cheap.

Stayed there for a 3 night break. Hotel bar was very very quiet,so a trip into town is a good idea. Breakfst was very good with plenty on offer. Fried,scrambledor boiled eggs, sausage and bacon or if you prefer cereals,there was plenty to choose from. Rooms very clean. One thing though. DONT use the telephone! l was charged £45 for a 1 minute,a 6 minute and an 11 minute phone call home. RIDICULOUS! But if i had to,i would return to this nice hotel.

I was in Krakow having dental surgery and chose the hotel solely due to its proximity to the dentist. It's slightly out of the town and presumably due to this very reasonably priced (we had to extend our stay by a couple of nights and it was just as cheap to book direct with the hotel).

The hotel was dead dead dead - really quiet, and I assume this was time of year rather than a reflection on its year-round business. Staff were lovely and rooms were clean and perfectly well equipped.

A few minutes' cab ride gets you to the market square and cabs are cheap, so I'd say if you're not desperate to walk out of the hotel straight into starbucks it's worth considering staying here rather than paying for a 4/5 star hotel right in the town centre (plus I don't even think there is a starbucks). Do be warned, however, that at about 3pm the hotel will blame the "rush hour" (ten cars waiting at traffic lights for 2 minutes - it's not London believe me!) for having no taxis available and it'll be a potential 20 minute wait.

What really stood out at the hotel was the food. We never intended to eat there as I knew a few good restaurants in the town centre, one of which, incidentally, let us down tremendously (do NOT eat in Pod Aniolami - Under the Angels - before the chef arrives at 6pm). We did in fact have a dinner and a lunch at the hotel, both of which were truly divine. Steak with wild mushrooms and a steak tartare - both very obviously freshly made, seasoned perfectly, totally delicious.

All in all a really positive experience. And yes my teeth look amazing too.