Name: Hotel Karolina
Address: Novy Svet 101, Krkonose National Park, Krkonose National Park, Krkonose National Park, 51246, Czech Republic
Rating: 6

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The "Formanka" of Hotel Karolina is  a wild ride, replete with frothy pitchers of Gambrinus and VERY generous plates of Svitchkova and local game.

My old Ski School had meal tickets for the Formanka (It's still part of the Karolina), and we cold, hungry instructors were well-warmed and fed here.

This is NOT a tourist place; avoid at all costs if you refuse to try to speak Czech, or if you have an aversion to being stared at by muttering glass factory workers and ski resort employees.
If, however, you possess the chops to get past all that, you are in for a very unique, warm, drunk and filling experience.

The Hotel Karolina's "Formanka" has some of the best chow in Harrachov.

Tak, Cau!

Czech out the "Formanka", around to the side...

We had a dinner in restaurant which is a part of the Hotel Karolina. Although the portions were generous, unfortunately the food was rather bland. I had "segedinsky gulas" literally with three small cubes of meat. Waiters were not attentive and looked bothered to serve us.

Personal restaurace vypadal jako by je obtezovalo nas obslouzit. Jidlo bylo bez chuti.

Bland food, poor service

My husband and I just spent 3 nights at this hotel because it was 3 k from the start of a World Loppet race in Poland.  The person at the desk spoke no English and seemed to be unaware of the big event, which had brought several international travelers to her hotel.  We were told we would have free wireless internet, which was untrue for us because they put us in their apartments, (without our having requested them), adjacent to the hotel,  Although the apartments were more spacious, we were depending on the internet to help us prepare for the race.  Also, they had us sleep on two narrow mattresses, which had been placed next to each other, on a frame that was a foot too short on each side.  I almost rolled out of bed several times!  We did have a good place to park our car, however.
The food, especially dinners, wasquite good.  If it weren't for a kind Dutch tourist, who translated the menu for us, we would not have known what to order.  They only had one waitress, occassionally helped by the bartender, to serve the entire dining room, which had at least 30 tables.  Of the entire staff in the hotel, there was one woman who spoke English, and she didn't work weekends, when we were there.  Our Spanish and French were of no help to us, either.
In general, the hotel was quite run down, broken shower, broken bathroom fan, broken handle on closet door, lights out by entry,  We needed to walk through a smoky bar or along a busy street, with no shoulder, to get to the restaurant.  While there we could not charge anything to our room or use Visa to pay for our dinners...Czech cash, only!
I realize I probably sound like a whiney American.  We travel extensively and use trip advisor a lot.  It would improve Karolina a great deal if they would fix the few little incidendals, get an English translation for the menu, and get the staff to smile a little more and be a little more welcoming.  After all, they all are in the tourist business.

What you should know before choosing to stay here

Ski holidays are always a bit risky... you may brake a leg on a slope while skiing :) However in Harrachov, slopes won't hurt you, as Hotel Karolina may... a property that I would qualify as a post soviet union hotel( I have my own sources for that...believe me!). Indeed during your stay in this hotel, while leaving it, you may be reversed by a car (as website photos don't show that the hotel is right at a main streets crossroads); you may also break your coxis on access stairs (both of us felt on the ice while leaving and nobody in the hotel noticed) or hurt your feet fingers on tricky doorways in your room... Satellite TV? Yes... in the pub...as in your room, just count on 2 blurry czech channels on a 36cms TV...room are spacious but... kind of failing post soviet union electricity, shower head and shower cabin were about to fall into pieces and the room had an undefined smell... An appeal for opening wide your window to remember how good is the fresh mountain air :) Swimming pool was out of order... and sauna schedule was full (meaning probably out of order too:) ...etc... Location is far from slopes (1.5 kms) but right next to bus station lines.
Evening staff was fun, friendly and nice (even though german skills needed)... Day staff was 'friendly' because 'had to' :)... 'helpful' because 'had to' :)
We have paid a high season discount rate (49€ per night) which is far away over evaluated for the quality of the stay (really nice hotels in Prague for this rate)... hopefully we were here for skiing and enjoying fresh mountain air :) Next time, if I go there, I'll choose a more humble pension...at least you know what you may have for a lower price...
Good points for being as much as possible objective: Nice and funny local antique design in the pub, enough to eat for breakfast (but no fruit juice except lemon sirop), wifi is all right, nice family atmosphere in the hotel
To end, this hotel is worthing MAXIMUM 2 stars according to western standards.

Are u post soviet union nostalgic?

Hi ,
I stayed in this hotel for two nights.  I thought the hotel was ok but had a serious problem with the staff this morning while booking out.  I was in the bar on Friday night and the chair I was sitting on was very old.  It collapsed under my weight and all hell broke out.  A local in the bar wanted to fight me and I had to leave the bar with my friend to avoid trouble.  I thought that would be the end of the issue.  I was very embarassed that the chair broke and I hurt my neck and back when the chair collapsed.  
The staff told me this morning that I would have to pay 100 euro for the old chair.  I FOUND THIS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.  He claimed I was swinging on the chair which I think is complete lies.  If I had broke the chair by standing on it or by throwing it I would have no problem but I was SITTING on the chair.  By right they should have tried to compensate me and not the other way around.  When we questioned this they told me that they would call the Police.  I PAID 100 Euro for a chair that was old and decripid and well past it sell by date.  I think they are ripping off the tourist and would be wary of other scams in this area.  If I was Czech I know I wouldn't have paid 100 euro but because I was Irish they presumed I had loads of money.  I FIND THIS TERRIBLE AND VERY POOR SERVICE.
IT LEAVES A VERY BAD TASTE IN MY MOUTH.

I would not stay in this hotel for that reason alone.  It was also very noisy but I would get used to that.

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