Novotel Katowice Centrum

The smell of food greeted me as I walked into the Lobby - or perhaps I should say a smell of the kitchen. My room however was excellent and room service very speedy. The hotel is expensive though, almost 500PLN - this is very steep by polish standards for a modern 3/4 star hotel. So it's very much geared towards biz people with expense accounts.

Absolute bare minimum four-star facilities. Best you can expect in Katowice.

Staff were unfriendly. Would provide no information or assistance e.g. parking until we had presented a credit card. Beds were hard and uncomfortable. Nearly all the hotel stank of cigarette smoke, though to be fair our non-smoking room only slightly smelled of it. The walk to the city centre was unmarked and passed through badly-lit streets and goes via the prostitute district. Car parking was 30 Euros per night, an obscene rate for a hotel outside the centre of a medium-sized city.