Rooms

Forty-nine rooms, four shapes

The granary settled the floor plan five hundred years before we arrived, and four arrangements came out of it.

Hotel room with a bare brick wall, a plank ceiling with a dark timber beam and a wide oak floor — Hoist Beam Room, third floor

Hoist Beam Room

14 of them

Each of these has one of the granary's hoist beams across the ceiling, the squared oak timbers that used to carry the pulley gear, and one long wall where the brick was never plastered. The beam is low at one end, and a guest of 190 cm will meet it by standing up on the wrong side of the bed. That is why the bed sits where it does, and why a felt pad is nailed to the underside.

These are the quietest rooms in the house, facing inward with thick walls on three sides and no road outside. They take the back corner of the third and fourth floors. Beds are two singles as standard, pushed together and made up as a double if you ask when you book. There is a luggage rack instead of a wardrobe, since a wardrobe would hide brick we want you to see.

Size: 26 to 28 m²
Floor: Third and fourth
Sleeps: Two
Outlook: Courtyard
Beds: Two 90 cm, joined on request
Bathroom: Walk-in shower, twin basin

Riverwall Room

21 of them

These rooms are on the river side of the building, on floors three to five, with two windows in each lining up with the Wisła. The embankment road runs between the hotel and the water, so there is traffic until about ten at night and very little after. Secondary glazing went into the reveals during the conversion, set back far enough to be invisible from inside.

Beds are 180 cm, made up with a flat sheet and a single duvet; if you prefer the Polish two-duvet arrangement, the desk will change it over. The bathroom is cut into the thickness of the old wall and tiled floor to ceiling, with a walk-in shower. This floor plan has no room for a bath.

Size: 24 to 26 m²
Floor: Third to fifth
Sleeps: Two
Outlook: Wisła, west
Bed: 180 cm double, splittable
Bathroom: Walk-in shower

Embrasure Room

9 of them

The smallest rooms, and the ones people write to us about afterwards. The original wall openings on the fifth floor were cut for ventilation, so each window sits at the back of a reveal more than a metre deep, with a stone sill wide enough to sit on. We put a cushion there and left the rest.

They suit one person, or two who don't mind a compact room. The bed is 140 cm. A hanging rail takes the place of a wardrobe, a writing shelf runs under the window, and the shower room is behind a brick arch that was once a doorway between two storage bays.

Size: 17 to 19 m²
Floor: Fifth
Sleeps: One or two
Outlook: Courtyard or gable
Bed: 140 cm
Bathroom: Shower room

Rafter Attic

5 of them

The top floor sits straight under the roof, with the rafters and collar ties left exposed and painted lime white. Each room has two roof windows, one of them over the bed, which gives you rain on the glass in October and a clear view of nothing much in February. The ceiling is high down the middle and low at the eaves.

The lift stops at the fifth floor, and the attic is eight steps up from that landing. The steps are steep and turn a corner, so these rooms are a poor fit for anyone who finds climbing hard. Tell us when you book and we will put you lower down.

Size: 30 to 34 m²
Floor: Sixth, under the roof
Sleeps: Two
Outlook: Roof windows
Bed: 180 cm double
Bathroom: Bath and shower

The same in every room

Whatever shape you end up in.

Oak floors, original where they survived, matched where they did not.
Blackout blinds set inside the window reveal, and secondary glazing on the river side.
Air conditioning, and underfloor heating in the bathrooms.
Kettle, loose tea and a grinder with beans from a roastery on ul. Szeroka.
Wired and wireless network, free and fast enough for a video call.
There is no minibar, but The Hoist Bar is open until midnight and reception keeps cold water all night.

Booking

You cannot book or pay on this site. Write to [email protected] or call +48 56 412 87 30 and the desk will reply with what is free. Check-in is from 15:00 and check-out by 11:00, and luggage is held either side of that.