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The Hostel City Center boasts the swankiest lobby we've seen yet for a hostel—that's because it shares a lobby with the three-star Hotel d'Opera. Besides the cable television in the lobby, the advantage of this is that reception is open and waiting for you 24 hours a day.
Upstairs, the ambience is bright, peaceful, and calm with high ceilings and an old-fashioned look, though it's markedly less glamorous than the 19th-century theater-cum-breakfast room. Standard rooms, which have two, three, or four beds apiece, are décor free. Lots of it-will-do furnishings are made of the type of wood used for grammar school desks.
You can opt for a private, old but clean, bathroom and add a few euros onto your bill. If you're in the mood for more creature comforts, then upgrade to a three-star room. These have air-conditioning, satellite television, and en suite facilities
Now back to that breakfast room: Feast your eyes on this former Italian dinner theater. When Wathek, the manager, showed us around, we entered stage right, from the hostel hallway, to an audience of breakfast tables. Overhead, vaulted ceilings displayed some of the most beautifully detailed plasterwork we saw in all of Prague.
Breakfast is not included in the price. However, we'd say the CZK 150 is worth the interior show.
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