Hotel Belarus

Minsk


Set in parkland a 15-minute amble from the city centre, this 450-room Soviet-built behemoth is now a full-service business hotel with smiling receptionists and fully renovated and functional (if small) rooms. But it's the swimming pool with a water slide and Soviet murals that really sets it apart.

Breakfast costs BYN22 and bike rental is available for BYN6 per hour.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Minsk attractions

1. Island of Courage & Sorrow

0.4 MILES

Standing on a small island connected to the Old Town by a walking bridge, this evocative Afghan war memorial is known colloquially as the Island of Tears…

2. Zaslavsky Jewish Monument

0.48 MILES

This extremely moving sight, rather hidden away in a sunken gully amid trees off vul Melnikayte, commemorates the savage murder of 5000 Jews from Minsk at…

3. Museum of the Great Patriotic War

0.5 MILES

Housed in a garish new building, Minsk's best museum houses an excellent display detailing Belarus' suffering and heroism during the Nazi occupation. With…

4. Trinity Hill

0.54 MILES

Trinity Hill is a pleasant – if tiny – recreation of Minsk's pre-war buildings on a pretty bend of the river just a little north of the centre. It has a…

5. Cathedral of the Holy Spirit

0.72 MILES

Off the northern edge of pl Svabody is the baroque, twin-towered Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, built in 1642. It was once part of a Polish…

6. SS Peter & Paul Church

0.73 MILES

Off the vul Lenina overpass is the attractively restored 17th-century SS Peter & Paul Church. The city's oldest church, it was built in 1612, looted by…

7. Pl Svabody

0.82 MILES

In the heart of the Old Town just off central vul Lenina is charming pl Svabody, lorded over by the white medieval Ratusha (town hall). Off the northern…

8. Ratusha

0.82 MILES

Minsk's ratusha has been rebuilt in the place where it was originally constructed in the 1800s and now lords it over pl Svabody, its pointed steeple…