This old-fashioned small hotel has a wonderful location and without doubt the slowest elevator in Warsaw (staff even make a joke about it). The views from 3rd-floor rooms, sporting wood-beamed ceilings and formal decor, over the Old Town are stunning. Breakfast is 20zł per person extra.
The building is also the headquarters of the Polish PEN Club, a writers’ organisation, and plays, sometimes in English, are staged here.