This is a standard 3-star hotel on a central Prague location, inside an Arcade just off the Wenceslas square. It’s ridiculously overpriced. We were put there, first in a single and a double and then in 3 single rooms, by another hotel after a failure in our room. The double room was indeed very good, large, airy and comfortable. The single ones were not – they were small and claustrophobic. They were all clean, as was the luggage storage facility of the hotel, surprisingly. All the rooms featured keycard locks, which also cut power on exit. The keycards had to be used in the elevator, too. The room’s bathrooms were basic but functional. The staff were polite and friendly, and continued to be helpful and courteous even after we caused a scene in their lobby, arguing about payment with the manager of the other hotel that put us there. The only internet connection available in the hotel was through a PC by the reception. The PC was running Linux (A customer was asking the reception ”What is this Fedora browser, don’t you have explorer”, as we went in). The breakfast was served in a caf? in the arcade outside the hotel, and had to use vouchers from the hotel to be served a normal 3-star breakfast. The breakfast was nothing special, but the ambient post-industrial atmosphere of the caf? was nice.

My family of 5 checked into 2 rooms in the Hotel Elysee for the week after Christmas 2007. The hotel had just been renovated. The rooms are bright and cheery. The bedding comfortable. Nice staff, hot water, private bathrooms. Good security. The hotel is on Wenceslas Square. An excellent location. Just a short walk to the Mustek entrance to the subway and the main station for the street cars. A Christmas market was at the West side of the square and the National Museum at the East side. Within walking distance to Prazsky Hrad Castle, Old Town Square, St. Charles Bridge, and the National Theater. The only negatives: There is no internet in the rooms. There is a slow workstation in the lobby running on Linux Redhat. It has a slow connection and kicks you off every 30 minutes. The hotel charges 60 Krown for every 30 minutes. There is a daily charge for the room safes. The reception controls the heat in the room. They never got the temp right, even after several calls. The room was either very hot, or too cold. We picked "too hot" and left the window open. The TV was a small analog model with very limited channel access. No restaurant or room service in the hotel. They give you coupons for breakfast at a restaurant in the mall corridor downstairs. But the restaurant is nasty. It's dirty and the food was poor. The coffee was gritty and looked like mud. Overall the hotel was great. There's plenty of shopping, attractions, restaurants, bars, casinos, cabarets, night clubs and transportation within a couple of blocks to keep even the pickiest traveler happy. I would stay there again!

Stayed for 2 nights early in Nov. Hotel is in a great location, right on Wencless Sq, right in the middle. The Hotel entrance is accessed via a shopping arcade. Booked & paid for a single room, (£82 for 2 nights), got a Twin Room which was clean & nice. Building work going on out the back, but no noise. Shopping arcade gates close about 23:30, after this time, you have to ring a doorbell for the security to come & open the gates for you. Safe enough location. Breakfast was in a nearby restaurant within the shopping arcade, OK, cereals, breads, cheese, ham, jams, Orange Juice, Tea & Coffee, basic but OK. Hot water took a VERY long time to get warm, on the 2nd day I got up late & showered at 9:30am, I think all the hot water had run out, so it was a cold shower!!! Not sure if this happens for everyone, or if it was because I checked out at the same time as a group of 10 other lads, but I had to wait whilst the maid went & checked the mini bar to make sure all was OK - even though I had left an imprint of my CC on arrival. I guess this is better than finding out they have taken money on the CC a few days later? Overall, OK, not great, but have also stayed in worse

(Try Hotel Savic instead which is 10/10.) Do not use the Hotel Elysee taxi, which is not a registered taxi company. I was charged 350 crowns by them and 99 crowns on the way back by AAA taxis. The next time they refused to phone me a taxi unless it was theirs. Also no room service or bar and the restaurant was through a shopping centre. The rooms however are OK and the staff are friendly.