Grand hotel Stary Smokovec

We stayed at the beginning of August for 3 nights over a long week end. We stayed in 2 deluxe rooms as the standard ones had sold out. We think that there is no significant difference between the deluxe and standard rooms in terms of size, bathrooms and furniture, apart from the deluxe rooms have a nice balcony you can sit out on and the standard rooms have no balcony. The rooms are quite large as well as the bathroom. The bathroom is good though will need updating at some stage. The side of the bath to step into the shower is quite high so probably not ideal for elderly guests. The hotel has a really good wellness centre which is continuously staffed and maintained such as clearing up water on the floors which can be a bit slippery. There are two types of sauna plus steam bath, and cold plunge pool, two jacuzzis and a reasonable sized swimming pool. We did not eat dinner at the hotel but the breakfasts were very good and well up to standard of any international 4 star hotel. There was plenty of hot and cold options, plus fresh fruit and you could have omelettes made to order by an omelette chef included in standard breakfast price. The omelettes tasted really good and the coffee from the machine was also good. The hotel is in the centre of Stary Smokovec village and just one minute walk from the funicular railway lift taking you up to Hrebienok. The stay at the hotel includes one ascent and descent per day on any of the lifts in the High Tatras which makes the hotel room price good value. There is a nice comfortable bar and lounge area. All in all a very nice hotel to be recommended.