This tasteful reincarnation of Katowice’s most celebrated prewar hotel offers high levels of comfort and friendly, helpful staff. Rooms are full of stylish walnut and chrome surfaces, and bathrooms feature huge shower heads. There are also two restaurants, a fitness centre with two saunas, and a swimming pool. Check out the handsome 19th-century mosaic under glass in the foyer.
Once the natural choice of stars of the cultural and political firmament visiting Katowice (including a young Charles de Gaulle), the Monopol was converted to office space under communism, became defunct in the mid-1980s, and was only rescued in 2001.
