Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto – hotel check-in

Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto – hotel check-in is written by Jens Skovgaard Andersen.

Location, location, location

A few minutes' walk from the main railway station, surrounded by shops and restaurants and overlooking both the port's industrious cranes and the medieval town's proud spire, is a cozy hotel. Can it get better?

In the middle of Gdansk princes the hotel Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto over the city roofs. 'Stare Miasto' means the Old Town in Polish, and the hotel is also right in the middle of the cozy old town.

The views are excellent, the rooms are modern, sustainability is the focus and the staff is impeccable. The holiday benefit starts immediately when you check in at Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto.

You can also stay at the sister hotel Ibis, which is right next door. See more here.

Sightseeing from bed

A definite plus at the Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto is the excellent view from the rooms – of course, especially if you are on one of the upper floors. You can actually go sightseeing without leaving the room. Armed with a map of the city, you can quickly get an overview of the entire center of the city Gdansk.

The city is characterized by both the large industrial harbor with the historic cranes and the great importance for both the economy and politics in the modern Poland. It was here that the Iron Curtain during the Cold War was shaken by large demonstrations led by trade union leader Lech Walesa. And it was here that the rug was finally completely pulled from under those in power.

Another part of the harbor is dominated by old warehouses, cozy medieval streets and alleys and lots of tourists along the quayside. Gdansk is a lively city, and there is always activity in the city's squares and squares. And not least on the historic pedestrian street Dluga.

However, Gdansk's skyline is dominated by the many beautiful church spiers that stretch towards the sky between the houses. You can see it all from your room at the Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto. It is of course not enough to experience the exciting city from bed, but it is a good start.

Between new and old

The hotel is furnished modernly and with everything you could need on holiday. Both the common areas and the rooms are decorated with many really fine details from the city's history.

Reliefs, patterns and black-and-white photos from a dramatic and now-gone past testify to the hotel's embrace of Gdansk's role in world history even today. It gives extra color to your visit to Gdansk, that history is in this way everywhere.

The decor is kept in happy colours, and that in itself is a contrast to the often dark imprint of history. In today's Gdansk, there is room for both. Here the new and the old go hand in hand.

Sustainability is in focus at Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto

For Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto, sustainability is top priority. In the rooms, there are no small soaps, small plastic bottles with shampoo or water in plastic bottles. They do it in a different way. Soap and shampoo are filled up in containers that must not be thrown away.

Towels are washed as needed, and you yourself help to determine the need. You just hang a sign on the door if you think you can get by with the towels you have. If you don't need to house keeping and just want to sleep for a long time, then of course there is also a sign for that. Nicely easy.

It is important to have something to drink, and of course you must not do without drinking water. There is a decanter in the room, which you can fill yourself with fresh water from the water dispenser in the hallway as often as you like, and you have no plastic bottles to throw away. Both you and the climate will be happy about it.

Taste Poland at the Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto

The hotel has a very nice restaurant and a cozy bar on the ground floor, where you can meet the other guests and digest the day's impressions with a small one. It could, for example, be a nice cold draft beer from one of the city's many breweries - or perhaps the local liqueur Goldwasser with real gold in it.

For breakfast you will be spoiled with delicacies.

You will of course find everything you are used to from hotel buffets, but Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto goes a little further when it comes to local specialities. Here you can replace the croissant and the jam food with Kashubian herring marinated in ginger and lingonberries plus sauerkraut and smoked cheese. It can really do something.

When you have finished filling up the depots from the breakfast buffet, the restaurant's funny and smiling cleaning robot comes and collects the used crockery. Quite clever.

Ibis Gdansk Stare Miasto – family-friendly alternative right next door

If you're looking for a slightly cheaper hotel with the same excellent location, it really couldn't be much easier. The neighbor is Mercure's sister hotel Ibis Gdansk Stare Miasto.

Here you get stylish, bright rooms with everything you need. Ibis has a well-known concept that works perfectly all over the world. Here the family can relax and be together in fine surroundings with high service and comfort.

At Ibis, the pizza restaurant is open for a long time, and it can quickly prove to be an important saving grace when you have been out and about Gdansk all day. The breakfast buffet is included, and it provides a good start to a busy day in an exciting city.

If you are going to Gdansk, Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto and the neighboring hotel Ibis Gdansk Stare Miasto obvious places to live. It's easy, convenient and just the way it should be.

Good trip to Gdansk, good trip to Poland.

5 good reasons to visit Gdansk and stay at the Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto hotel

• Experience history up close at the exciting new museums on the Second World War and Solidarity
• Enjoy summer life along the Baltic Sea on the beaches between Sopot and Gdansk
• Go shopping in the old streets around Dluga and the old harbour
• Learn about the dark history of the knight's castle Malbork and the concentration camp Stutthof an hour from Gdansk
• Enjoy your holiday in delicious hotels with delicious food and quite reasonable prices