Habitaciones
Las habitaciones, que disponen de unos acabados de lujo, ofrecen una atmosfera cálida y acogedora. Algunas de las habitaciones disponen de techos con vigas pintadas de madera o en estuco barroco. Todas las habitaciones tienen su encanto particular y están situadas ya sea en el edificio principal o en la fascinante villa barroca del campo. Las dos alas del hotel están comunicadas mediante dos cómodos ascensores y también hay una encantadora escalera que conecta a un jardín tranquilo que limita con las antiguas fronteras del Castillo de Praga. Las habitaciones están equipadas con televisión vía satélite, radio, teléfono directo, acceso a Internet gratuito e ilimitado, minibar y caja fuerte. Las habitaciones del ático también están completamente climatizadas.
Restaurante
Cada mañana, os ofrecemos un completo desayuno buffet desde las 7.30 hasta las 10.30 en la sala de desayunos. Hay un Punto de Internet de alta velocidad gratuito a disposición de los huéspedes situado en un elegante rincón del salón.
Exterior
The building with its predominantly Baroque style has been carefully restored under the supervision of the Preservation Art Department with the purpose of renewing its original splendor.
Sala
The Royal Mile, or King’s Road (Kralovska cesta in Czech), was the route a future king had to take on the way to his crowning in the St. Vitus Cathedral at the Prague Castle. It has remained unchanged since about the 15th Century. Czech royals lived at the so-called King’s Court (today’s Municipal House) and rode to their coronation from the Powder Gate, through Celetna Street, across Old Town Square and through Nerudova Street up to Hradcanske Namesti (Hradcany Square), to St. Vitus Cathedral. The building The Golden Wheel Hotel stands in Nerudova Street, which has preserved its baroque character to this day, including original building signs, and remains as the most beautiful route up to the Prague Castle. It was originally named Ostruhova (Spur) Street, apparently because while riding its uphill slant on a horse, one often had to use spurs. The writer Jan Neruda, after whom the street is now named, lived near our hotel, at the house U Dvou Sluncu (The Two Suns). The first records of a building at this location go back all the way to the end of the 15th Century. In 1541, after a major fire destroyed almost three quarters of the Lesser Quarter in three hours, the building “The Golden Wheel” underwent a through renovation. At the end of the 17th Century, the building was owned by the painter Kristian Dittman, who performed another major renovation and also added another floor. Roughly a hundred years later, in 1814, the building is already mentioned in the Land Registry as having four floors and from that time onwards has stayed practically unchanged. You can see this for yourself on Langweil’s unique model of Prague from the years 1826 – 1835 at the Prague City Museum. The current appearance of the hotel “The Golden Wheel” is the result of a sensitive renovation of the baroque building, whose intentions were to conserve and revitalize its authentic charm. Thus inside you will find, for example, an original medieval well, or the chimney of a so-called black kitchen – from times when cooking was done on an open fire.