Hotel Golebiewski Karpacz

For me and family too crowdy, so many people, we was 3 day stay with all features included. Location in the heart of the mountain resort Karpacz, good place to start hiking. Next time we would like to find some much more familiar place.

We have chosen this hotel for a family stay during Easter holidays, the decision was made mostly based on the photos we have seen. But this turned into a huge disappointment when we actually arrived there. The hotel is quite old, judging from out fashioned design of the interior and rooms I estimate 20+ years. It is enormous, about 800 rooms, and during Easter it was completely booked. So approximately 2000 people were staying there at that time. Swimming pool, whirlpool areas are really old, the whirlpool tubs are molded , and the paint is chipped on the stairs when you enter. Showers are just horrible, plastic panels are cracked and broken. Sauna is more or less ok, but people don’t respect the hygiene rules that are common in most of Europe, which is sitting on their towels in sauna, they just sit there in swimming suits, some of them not even on the towel, which isn’t a common thing even in Poland. The whole area of swimming pool is very dark even during the day, the ventilation is really bad and it’s hard to breathe and humidity is very high in the whole area. The darkness however is not only in pool area but in all other areas, including the dining areas, it’s really depressing and we had to find free spots near windows. Food is something individual but it wasn’t good enough for my liking. Every day you get the same more or less, there was a live cooking are which was alright, but the rest like salads , snacks etc I couldn’t even look at it, 90% of it is processed food, coffee is terrible, deserts were horrible. You could buy alcohol but it was overpriced, a bottle of local beer 5 eur. I saw many people going to a nearby shop to get it for 1 eur. And overall this culture of full board for some people in fact means that they will put so much food that they will never manage to consume, so half of the food goes to trash. Some things like cheese were obviously re-used next day as they were already dry. Or for example sliced pineapple was used next day in a shape of a pancake with pineapple. Overall this reminds me of Turkish All inclusive hotel. Rooms were good , no complaints there. But if you are unlucky you might get a room where there is a pillar between 2 beds 😀There was a huge underground parking included in price it was quite convenient. You could get a trolley for your luggage and it was really needed because you might travel like 500m from your car to your room depending on where you were staying. The size of the hotel was enormous as I mentioned so to get from one place to another like for example to a dining area or some place for kids entertainment it was taking some time and you had to use elevators that are working in a strange manner. Build quality of the hotel was also questionable, in many places there were cracks where you could fit your finger. So to conclude this hotel is not worth the money, we paid 300eur per night for 2 adults and 2 kids. For this amount or even less I would recommend to look for something smaller, and more modern in Poland, because we’ve stayed in other hotels and we were astonished how modern and stylish they were so our expectations were really high on this one but unfortunately we were disappointed. As a proof of some things I mentioned I attach some photos.