Gdansk Trip – Hotel Mercure Gdańsk Stare Miasto

OK, so this Accor hotel doesn’t blend into the background of Gdansk, but at least it’s easy to find as it’s visible from most of the city centre.

My room was on the fifteenth floor. The staff member at check-in was charming and I was surprised and delighted when I was told that I had been upgraded.

The room was a bit jam packed of stuff, but it was clean and comfortable.

Beautiful. That’s it, that’s all I’m going to write, this is beautiful.

Welcome to my complex world. I had been upgraded to a privilege room which usually come with free drinks and a little snack. However, the minibar door mentioned they were chargeable and there was no bottle opener. I was fairly confident that they were free, but I didn’t want to go to reception and ask as that would lead to a potential staff member having to disappoint me. And I usually carry a bottle opener around with me, but I haven’t been recently, although I’ve now fixed that omission. So, I compromised in case the mini bar was chargeable and just had the chocolate and coconut pieces. It was a suitable compromise with myself.

The hotel bar. My free drinks voucher wasn’t working on the app and the barman politely mentioned that I’d need to speak to reception. The helpful man at reception said that Accor had rolled out a load of stuff that didn’t work properly, promptly writing a voucher out by hand for me.

There were a decent amount of craft beers, I was suitably impressed, it felt testament to someone wanting to please beer drinkers by giving some thought as to the offering.

The view from my hotel room at night. Pretty special I think, the amber glow of the street lights, the spires of churches illuminated and people milling about. I rather liked being able to trace the footsteps of the city’s history below, the areas that had been rebuilt after the war, the buildings that had survived the centuries. It was possible to sit in the window and just watch the world, I struggled to recall many other hotels that I’ve stayed with such views of so many city landmarks.

This is what the rooms the other side of the hotel had as their view. I’d add I didn’t invite myself into someone’s room, there was a window by the lifts.

I loved this hotel, it was around £65 a night, but I thought that was entirely reasonable given the elevated views. This hotel was one of the few Accor hotels in the Gdansk wider region that I haven’t visited before, but I’m sure that I’ll be back here.

Oh, and I wasn’t charged for the chocolate in the minibar to avoid either of my two loyal blog readers having sleepless nights with the worry.