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PTTK Wyspianski is a modern, business-class hotel. It's got all the amenities expected of hotels of its ilk. (Conference rooms accommodating 100? Check!) Huge for Krakow, the 158-room PTTK Wyspianski is set back from busy Westerplatte.
Rooms exist in the aesthetic valley between sterile and folky. Plush bright red carpets, cherry-brown headboards and bed frames, and swirl-patterned bedspreads are formulaic in the global business hotel vein. That's the sterility. But just as you are ready to write off PTTK Wyspianski as boring if reliable, you note the more upcountry, charming touches: funky upholstered chairs, little wooden sitting tables, and odd wooden lamp stands, all suggesting the 1970s.
Other rooms are considerably more understated, with blue wall-to-wall carpets flecked with white dots and neutral-tone floral bedspreads. Irrespective of aesthetics, rooms have an unquestionably freshly-scrubbed appearance that extends to the newly tiled bathrooms.
All this stands in contrast to the hotel's floor landings, which feel more like impersonal Eastern-Bloc digs than a newish business hotel.
Business hotels like PTTK Wyspianski may be a bit antiseptic for those chasing charm or authenticity. For the rest of us, sparklingly clean rooms, a bar on the ground floor, and proximity to Krakow's Main Square do the trick.
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