ACCOMMODATION
Finding accommodation in Zakopane is not a problem, because the city has been around for dozens (ba, even hundreds) years old is used to receiving guests; however better, especially during the winter holidays, be safe than sorry and book your accommodation in advance.
Zakopane offers accommodation to individual tourists in hotels – which is associated with higher costs. It is a bit cheaper in guesthouses or private accommodation. The cheapest accommodation is in hostels, at campsites, campsites or with friends.
Caution: in the season, especially during the Christmas season, accommodation prices may increase by 25%.
How to find accommodation?
An indispensable broker, operating throughout the week, 24 hours a day, there is the Tourist Information Office tel. 20122-11, fax 20660-51, which provides information about the possibility of accommodation in hotels, shelters and private accommodation. Apart from BIT, Zakopane tourist offices also provide information; you can also book a place individually on any, selected private accommodation, in a guesthouse or in the house of the FWP.
Hostels
PTTK TOURIST HOUSE
ul. Zaruski 5, tel.2063281.
A huge building covered with the largest shingle roof in Europe, under which he is waiting 640 sleeping places; there are rooms 1- and 2-person, 2- and 3-person, 3- and 4-person, 6- and 8-person, as well as 12 and 28-person; prices depending on the standard: from 180 from t per person per night in the apartment to 18 PLN for a place in an 8-person room, discounts for members of PTTK; The Tourist House serves a bar, café, i know, a common room, TV, shop, luggage and ski storage, by phone and a well-stocked tourist antiquities shop. It belongs to the surest places, where you can find accommodation.
EDELIE
PTSM Youth Hostel at ul. Nowotarska 45, tel.2066203.
It has 270 places; student discounts apply, teachers and members of the PTSM; break: 10.00-17.00 in the afternoon; there is a kitchen that cooks and serves meals, luggage storage, rooms 2-, 4-, 5-, 6- and dormitory at prices 15-17 PLN per day (no discount); foreigners pay yes, like working people. Showers, sauna, coffeehouse, common room, TV, sports field, place for a bonfire, Tatra guides.
STUDENT
Youth Hostel BPiT Almatur at ul. Marusarzówny 15, tel.2015706.
The hostel has 50 places, open all day in high season, 4-8-bed rooms, kitchen, shared bathrooms, convenient location near ul. Grunwaldzka; despite, that it is not very neat and not modern here, there is a great atmosphere; TV. Prices 13-15 PLN per night per person; discounts are not available.
Hotel
ORBIS – Kasprowy
Szymoszkowa clearing, tel.204011
4 km from the center of Zakopane on the slope of Gubałówka; considered the most modern hotel in Zakopane; 24 single rooms, 252 double rooms, 12 apartments, two restaurants, coffeehouse, grill-bar, snack-bar, rice aperitif, bowling alley, sports equipment rental, Currency Exchange, tourist service office; road hotel, prices start from 50 PLN, and they end above 200 PLN per person per night.
ORBIS – GIWONT
ul. Kosciuszko 1, tel.2012011.
In the city center, quite old hotel with traditional decor, cheapest place prices (in a double room. with bathroom per person per night) are within the limits 60 PLN, dearest (1-person apartment) come to 200 PLN.
HOST
ul. Zaruski 2, tel.2015011, fax 2015330.
In the city center; the hotel is a three-time winner of the Golden Key (the highest distinction of the Association of Polish Tourist Hotels), and therefore guarantees a high level of service;
ma 55 rooms, 99 places, single and double rooms. The prices are in between 70,00 a 270,00 PLN (breakfast is included in the price). The hotel offers a restaurant, cafes, Satellite TV, drink-bar. billiard club, sauna, solarium, massages.
Other hotels
• Imperial, ul. balzera 1, telephone 2014021;
•Helios, ul. Słoneczna 2a, telephone 2066253;
•Zakopane, ul. Czech, telephone 2015021;
• Chalubinski, ul. Chramcówki 15, telephone 2068001;
•Jędruś, ul. Krzeptówki 48a, telephone 2070953;
• Gladiolus, ul. Chramcówki 25, telephone 2068623;
• Olczanka, Road to Olcza, telephone 2011820;
•Smereczek, The road to Bystre, telephone 2014834;
• Varsovian, ul. Jagiellonian 19, telephone 2063261.