Hotel Szelców

Having spent over 25+ nights in this hotel over the past few years, I always enjoy staying at the Szelców Hotel while in Lesko. My visits are usually 10 days or more in length and the staff always advises me of wedding functions over the weekends. My room of choice is Room 2, which is directly over the banquet area; I can put up with the noise (usually Friday or Saturday nights only) for a few hours, opting for the views during the day time from the numerous windows. One window faces the side of the building overlooking Lesko allowing a view of the church tower and town in the distance over the trees. The other window overlooks a small portion of the hotel parking area in the back giving you a nice view of the forest and hills. Great thing about these windows is they open two ways to vent the air, love sleeping with the windows open. I have also stayed in room 11, which is much larger, a room on the opposite side, but I prefer room 2. I understand in the near future a larger banquet center will be added to the opposite end of the building away from the guest rooms. There are other hotels and accommodations to choose while in Lesko, depending on your needs, by far this hotel is superior to any other at this time in Lesko. Trust me a few years back I took my wife to the more historic hotel near the city center in Lesko, after the first night we had to check-out. We switched to Szelców and since then I have only stayed here. The guest service, housekeeping, and dining room staff at Szelców are ALWAYS very pleasant and professional. For Americans or visitors from Great Britain the hotel employs numerous members of the staff who speak English, while other employees speak enough to understand you. If all else fails you can read the menu in the restaurant they offer in English and Polish. The guest rooms are very clean; Szelców offers larger towels, which are softer, bigger, and white in color. Believe me I experienced towels at the historic hotel in Lesko and other places in Poland that have bath towels the size of hand towels and are very rough and gray in color. The breakfast with the room offers a different selection of salads, cheeses, and cold cuts, fresh bakery items, tea, coffee, and juice, but I like the choice of having a different style egg if you choose which a good thing especially if you stay numerous nights in a row. My favorite dinner item is a regional dish on their menu “Placki ziemniaczane po Bieszczadzku”, it is a potato pancake dinner plate prepared in the Bieszczady Mountain style covered in a goulash type gravy, topped with sour cream. The restaurant also has a coffee/espresso bar along with great selection of sodas, bottled waters, liquors and beers. It is clear the owner, management, and employees take pride in the operation and the grounds with the landscaped bushes and flowers. A daily visit by the resident alpaca that walks the grounds freely is an added amenity.