Hotel Olecki

I have read the reviews of some travellers to Auschwitz and I find them to be quite incredible, especially the people who complain! This hotel is basic. It costs about £34 per night. With that price, you should not expect the hotel, the people who work there, the rooms or the food to be up to the standard enjoyed back in merry old England. It is Poland. It is not England. If you have a specific food allergy, upgrade to a hotel were you might pay £100 per night then all your dreams will come true. Who should stay here? I stayed and I loved the cheapness, the spartan food and the non responsive Hoteliers. Why? Because that is what you expect when you pay buttons to stay there. And almost finally, If those reasons weren't enough, Its Auschwitz, it's not the costa del sol were every whim is catered for if you are English. Surprisingly, they don't serve chicken nuggets or or pies. Given the size of Auschwitz, it beggars belief why anyone would spend longer than nights or breakfasts in the hotel. I have eaten superbly in Polish restaurants and bars. You just have to shake off the, "I'm English and expect English food to be served were ever I go and people to behave and rooms to be kept as if i am back in England," belief. Finally, the hotel is across the road from a death camp. While everybody complains about this and that and the kids are crying in a death camp and it also beggars belief why anyone would bring children to a death camp, how about sparing a thought for the souls in Auschwitz who didn't see their families again? The burned up bodies into dust in the grey lake, the belongings scattered at 'Canada' the prostitutes servicing the Nazi's in what is now the booking office at Auschwitz 1. The men, women and children in the crematorium in Auschwitz 1, or the death block and firing wall and torture chambers underneath. The hospital across the road were Josef Mengele carried out operations on twin children without anaesthetic. Armed with all of this information, how about getting your petty complaining lives into some kind of realistic approach?