I decided to review just two restaurants visited during our traveling in/around Brno, Czech ~ one good, one bad. Unfortunately, this review is bad. After cave visit, we stopped for lunch at the hotel/restaurant Skalni Mlyn at the main parking lot of the Punkva Caves.||It was a busy day at the caves, and parking area, but not many people in the restaurant. We set outside and ordered a simple lunch for two. The female waiter brought us meals but then disappeared for a while. I went inside to pay and waited for a while. Finally, one of the restaurant workers asked me, what I am waiting for and soon our waiter showed up. Since I was away from my table I told her what my order was, she punched a numbers and presented me a bill to pay. I started to laugh because inflated bill is the oldest trick in the book to take some extra money from clients. I knew approximate amount to be paid and a presented bill was like a few times larger. My laughing forced the waiter to punch the numbers again and she came with corrected amount. However, she took my money and didn’t bother to bring me a change. Since I wasn’t happy about waiter’s trick I didn’t want to leave any tips and I told her to give me my change. She ignored me and left! I gave it up, but my wife asked the man behind the bar for the change. He told her to go to the hotel reception. When we were leaving, he commented the situation in some nasty words. ||I don’t think people who read my opinion could avoid this restaurant, because it is a main source of food in the area. My hope is that a manager or owner of this place reads this and will make a proper adjustment so that the clients will not be subject to such bad practices...
Read moreMy husband, parents and I were traveling around the Czech Rep. and another one of our stops was in the Moravian Karst area. We stayed at the Hotel Skalni Mlyn. It's not a fancy hotel but is clean, quiet at night and comfortable. It is a very touristy area, especially with Czech tourists. The area is bustling with people during the day, buses and tours all day. At night is a different story.... very quiet and no night life. There are caves in the area as well as hiking and biking trails brining that bring in a lot of tourists. When we checked-in we were told that our rooms were cancelled 1 days earlier. We don't know what had happen but reassured the staff member at the front desk that we did not cancel. We suspect it was the company that we booked through the internet that made the error. She was very professional and reinstated our reservations and checked us in. I don't recall if there was a ceiling fan but there was no A/C. Up in the mountains it is quite comfortable at night with the windows open so no worries. In the evening there really is only one restaurant in the area. It was good. We all enjoyed our food and the service was also good. During the day the restaurant and the couple of food stalls are quite busy so be prepared to wait for seats and service. Oh..they also have hair dryers at the front desk...no extra fee. I would absolutely stay again. Loved the area and the...
Read moreYou can not find a better hotel to stay at when visiting the caverns of Moravian Karst. There is an info center in a building next to the hotel, where you pick up the tickets for the Punkevni cavern - we had reserved ours by phone a week earlier, they get sold out quickly! At another counter we bought return tickets to the little shuttle train and the cable car, the shuttle train stop is nearby and runs every 20 minutes up to the entrance to the main cavern.|The hotel receptionist was very sweet and helpful, my bad knees appreciated the rickety elevator to the second floor. We booked a studio with an amazingly huge bathtub, the room had a tiny seating area and a wooden wall with revolving TV separating the bed area from the rest of the room. We found the bed comfortable, with pristinely clean white linen, the pillows better than at most 3 star Czech hotels. The towels were perfectly clean and soft. A small fridge would be appreciated. The electric socket is hidden by the lightbulb in the bathroom mirror.|Check out time was 10 AM, we had plenty of time to have a lovely breakfast, there were many choices buffet style, the yogurt was amazing and the rolls nice and fresh.|I would not recommend the trout for dinner at the hotel’s restaurant, but that’s another review. Parking right outside the hotel was free. If I wanted to explore the area further, I would stay...
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