Jalta Boutique Hotel ★★★★★

The Boutique Hotel Jalta is a magnificent hotel, blending Prague's avant-garde culture within its quaint, timeless setting, as highlighted by the sumptuous façade of modernist balconies held up by statues of courting couples, and the original Andy Warhol print in the lobby. The hotel is entirely done up in Art-Deco inspired chic by the celebrated architect Antonín Tenzer, a break from the tradition of dark, heavy oil paintings and obscure tapestries that often adorn the halls of such establishments. It is no wonder that this striking building is regarded as a National Cultural Monument. The rooms, in turn, are done to the height of cutting-edge sophistication with little wonderful extras such as the complimentary L'Occitane products in the opulent bathrooms.

After revelling in your marvellous room, you can enjoy a meal at the adjoining COMO restaurant. They serve Mediterranean and Asian and Czech dishes, all of which are exquisitely prepared and devoured in the gorgeous, glowing setting of one of the hippest restaurants in town. Fuelled for your site-seeing adventure, you can make the short walk through the centre and across the Charles Bridge to the Kafka Museum. Here you can discover more about the man and writer through personal letters, publications, articles, photographs, all within a dark, murky atmosphere to evoke Kafka's brooding world.

If Kafka is not your cup of tea, there are hundreds of alternative museums, galleries and sites to see, be it the enigmatic Astronomical Clock around the corner from the hotel, the DOX art centre for leading modern art, the array of doleful gargoyles in Staré Mêsto, or the fairy-tale Gothic spires of Prague castle, the biggest in the world.

Marrying together Prague’s past and present, the Boutique Jalta Hotel is the ideal place to be introduced to this enchanting city.