There are thousands of places in the world that are divine in their unique beauty. One of them is the small town and resort of Karlovy Vary. The Imperial sanatorium is its best health resort, the complex of which includes a medical department, cafes, restaurants, sports facilities, a park and a pompous hotel. Its building can be called an architectural monument. It was built in 1912, and almost immediately many celebrities of that era chose it as their vacation spot. For more than a hundred years, the hotel has been reconstructed more than once, but has never violated the special color that makes every guest feel here as an aristocrat from high society. You can simply stay at the Imperial Hotel on an excursion to Karlovy Vary, or you can perfectly improve your health by buying a full-fledged spa vacation ticket or one of the wellness programs offered here.
Location, how to get there
The sanatorium and its Hotel Imperial in Karlovy Vary are located on a quiet, shady street of Libuszyn, on a small hill. A funicular comes here from sources for guests of the Imperial. It works every day until 9 pm, but on weekdays the movement starts at 5-45 in the morning, on Saturdays at 7 in the morning, and on Sundays at 8 in the morning. The interval of motion is approximately 15 minutes. The place where the sanatorium is built has a great advantage - it offers a panoramic view of the whole town, and the territory is surrounded by a forest, which lovers of hiking will certainly appreciate. But those who do not like or cannot move much will enjoy the clean air, in which the aromas of flowers, herbs, conifers and deciduous trees are mixed.
A big plus for tourists is that it’s very easy to get to the Imperial. Karlovy Vary, although a small town, but only 4.5 km from it there is an international airport. Transfers can be arranged here upon reservation. The cost of the service is 8 euros per person.
For those who have arrived in Prague, getting to the health resort is also easy. Karlovy Vary is located 130 km from the capital. There are many bus services to the resort. Travel time is a little over 2 hours. A bus ticket can be purchased for 160 CZK. If you go by taxi from the airport, the journey will take about an hour and a half, and you will have to pay at least 2,000 kroons. Transfer to Prague airport costs 29 euros per person.
general description
The Imperial Hotel in Karlovy Vary invariably attracts the eyes of admiring tourists. The photo captured his frontal view. The six-story building was built in the neo-Renaissance style. Designed by a French architect. Outside, it impresses with its slender and at the same time majestic forms. Inside, everything, starting from a spacious hall, is immersed in luxury. Especially spectacular are the old candelabra made of Czech glass, carpets on the floor in the hall and in the corridors, tapestries on the walls, numerous arches and sculptures, marble columns. The hotel reception is open 24 hours a day. The staff speaks not only Czech and English, but also Russian. At the reception, they not only give out room keys, but also record procedures, and also solve all current issues.
The territory of the Imperial Hotel in Karlovy Vary is an amazingly beautiful old English park with neatly trimmed lawns, flowerbeds, trees decorated in a topiary style. Among the greenery on the shady alleys, comfortable benches are installed, and tennis courts and mini golf courses are set aside.
In the park and in the forest, routes of paths are laid, where everyone can improve their health and enjoy the healing air. In Karlovy Vary, it is a mixture of aromas of herbs, flowers, needles and medicinal fumes emanating from hot springs. Their waters flow into the Teplá River flowing through the center of the city. A light curtain of vapors saturated with useful trace elements is constantly kept above it, and thermal fountains beat along the channel.
Medical profile
The Imperial sanatorium in Karlovy Vary, like other local health resorts, specializes in gastrointestinal tract diseases. Also, the main indications for treatment here are metabolic disorders in patients and the presence of diabetes mellitus.
In addition, they provide physiotherapeutic treatment to people suffering from diseases:
gynecological organs;
-heart and blood vessels;
- organs of the apparatus of movement;
- skin diseases (psoriasis, acne, eczema and others that are not contagious);
-patients who underwent surgery;
- recovering after chemotherapy in oncology.
For proper treatment you need to buy a ticket for 21 days. But you can take a ticket for a week or two to undergo treatment according to one of the proposed programs:
- “Diabetic” - 14 days.
- “Shortened” - 14 days.
- “Geriatric” - 7 days.
- “Beauty” - 7 days.
- “Romance at the resort” - 4 days.
- “Relaxation weekend” - for 3 days.
Diagnostic and treatment base
Over more than a hundred years of work, the Imperial health resort in Karlovy Vary has helped a lot to improve its health. Reviews about the medical staff and medical procedures that are carried out here are mostly favorable. In the diagnostic center of the health resort, you can perform tests:
blood (general);
urine (general);
-kala (coprogram);
blood (biochemical);
Ultrasound
-ECG.
The price includes two free visits to the doctor. In addition, for an additional fee you can get advice from a cardiologist, gynecologist, pulmonologist, surgeon, orthopedist, ENT doctor, pediatrician, urologist, dentist, gastroenterologist, nutritionist.
In the health resort “Imperial” in Karlovy Vary, treatment is carried out using procedures of various categories. Lightweight are:
-hydrotherapy;
-hydromassage;
- a visit to the sauna;
-traction;
climatotherapy;
- gymnastics in the pool;
- inhalation;
-paraffin applications;
-electrotherapy.
The main procedures included in the price of the tour include:
- two types of bathtubs (pearl or carbonic);
-torfotherapy;
Massage (on one area of the body);
-parafango;
bowel lavage;
-individual gymnastics;
underwater massage.
For an additional payment and on the recommendation of a doctor, you can get the procedure:
medical laser;
-magnetotherapy;
gas injection;
- pneumoacupuncture;
-Any kind of massage;
-diathermy;
- mud compresses;
intestinal flushing;
-mostimulation;
vaginal irrigation;
- Any kind of treatment for the organs of the oral cavity.
Each vacationer at the Imperial Hotel has the right to use the thermal thermal water free of charge, the pump room of which is located on the ground floor in the lobby.
Residence
To accommodate tourists, the Hotel Imperial in Karlovy Vary offers 219 rooms. Reviews about them are only enthusiastic. Categories:
"Standard" for one or two people. These rooms are not located in the hotel, but in the neighboring three-story (no elevator) Hoffman villa. The area of single rooms is 19 m2, the area of double rooms is from 29 m2 to 44 m2. Layout - a living room, an entrance, a bathroom with a toilet and a balcony (50% of the rooms have it). Equipment - bed, wardrobe, table, chairs, TV (2 Russian channels), safe, hairdryer, refrigerator. The hygiene room includes bathrobes and slippers.
Views from the windows to the city or to the park and the forest.
The rooms of the Hotel Imperial in Karlovy Vary look very solemn and at the same time unusually cozy. The photos presented in the brochures correspond to what is in reality.
Categories:
"Deluxe" for one or two people. The area of a single room is from 18m2. Its equipment includes a bedroom set, a soft sofa, a refrigerator with a minibar, a safe (in a wardrobe), a hairdryer, and a TV. The bathroom has a bath or shower, washbasin, bidet, toilet, bathrobes and slippers.
Not every room has a balcony.
"Apartments" with an area of 47m2. Layout: bedroom, living room, hallway, hygiene room, two balconies. Equipment - bedroom set, upholstered furniture, safe, modern flat-screen TV, hairdryer, telephone, refrigerator. Bathrobes and slippers are provided to all residents of the room, a set of shower products is provided in the hygiene room.
All rooms of Imperial have carpeted floors, beautiful drapes on the windows that block sunlight, and spectacular lights.
Nutrition
There are two restaurants in the Imperial sanatorium in Karlovy Vary. The first is called "Prague", where those who stay in the rooms of the categories "Standard" and "Deluxe" eat. This restaurant is decorated in the best traditions of the Czech Republic. Guests are provided with European breakfasts, hearty dinners, exclusive dinners, during which pleasant music sounds. Type of food "buffet". The menu includes delicious Czech dishes made from cottage cheese, meat, vegetables, original desserts and sweets. On the recommendation of a nutritionist, you can choose diet meals.
The second restaurant is called "Paris". It is intended for tourists living in the "Apartments". This restaurant is decorated in the best traditions of France. Fresh juices, tea, mineral water are always available here, and the menu offers international dishes. In addition, visitors can order the best Czech wines.
Guests of the hotel and the sanatorium are cordially invited by the cafe called Vienna. It is decorated in retro style. Here, as if transported to the era of the first years of the twentieth century. The cafe offers coffee, juices, tea and cakes.
In the lobby of the hotel there is a lobby bar where everyone can order alcoholic drinks, cocktails, Pepsi, juice.
In the evening, the hotel runs the Club Imperial bar, which offers dozens of drinks and light snacks. The bar is always fun, music plays, a disco takes place.
Leisure
The infrastructure of the Imperial health resort in Karlovy Vary has a spacious indoor pool. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. here people undergo procedures, and in the evening from 18-30 to 21-30 you can swim for everyone.
For guests, a fitness center is available for a fee, and there are tennis courts on site.
In the evenings, concerts are held in the health resort, and films are shown in the cinema. The park is equipped with a pavilion where artists perform.
In the restaurants of the hotel there is an opportunity to celebrate a solemn event - a wedding, an anniversary.
In addition to festive events, the infrastructure has several halls of various capacities for business events - meetings, business meetings, negotiations.
Resort Activities
It is difficult to find someone who is not admired by the Czech Republic, Karlovy Vary. The Imperial Hotel is located not in the city itself, but a little higher, but you can always go down to the center for free by funicular. In Karlovy Vary, the main attractions are colonnades with mineral thermal springs. There are four of them. There are two sources in Sadovaya, five in the longest Mill, two in the most modern Geysernaya, and two sources in the most beautiful colonnade called Market. The water temperature in the springs is from 43 to 65 degrees. Drinking it is recommended after consulting a doctor.
In Karlovy Vary, you can walk not only through the colonnades. The city has a wonderful park "Flower Garden" or "Flower Garden". There is a unique flowerbed where workers make up the current date from fresh flowers every night.
It is interesting to look into the Dvořakovy Gardens, where hundreds of roses are fragrant. And for the rest there are benches and gazebos.
It is very interesting, walking along the fabulously beautiful streets of Karlovy Vary, to look into the local church of Mary Magdalene. You can not miss the building of the city theater, which is also a local attraction.
While relaxing in Karlovy Vary, you should definitely visit the Becher Museum, because the Becherovka tincture is jokingly called the “Thirteenth Medical Source”. The museum not only demonstrate an interesting exhibition, but also give it a taste of tincture. Unusually decorated gift sets are also sold here. It will be a pleasure to present them to your friends.
Additional Information
All year round it accepts tourists who come for treatment or just for a tour the Hotel Imperial in Karlovy Vary. A tour for a couple of days can be ordered without treatment. The program will include accommodation, meals, swimming in the pool, sauna, one type of bath, one type of massage, oxygen therapy.
For treatment in this resort accept children from 6 years.
There is no capacity for cots in the rooms.
The hotel is pet friendly. The cost of 20 euros per day.
Room rates are:
-from 98 euros per day for "Standard";
-from 119 euros per day for "Deluxe";
-from 168 euros per day for the "Apartment".
A consular fee of 35 euros must also be paid.
You can pay for services by credit cards or cash.
Sanatorium "Imperial" (Czech Republic, Karlovy Vary), reviews
This health resort is considered the best in the Czech Republic. Tourists from Russia celebrate its advantages:
-location in a fabulously beautiful place;
-beautiful rooms, everything is new and functioning in them;
-high-quality cleaning;
-tasty dishes in the restaurant;
Friendly staff
- availability of the pool;
- A wide range of procedures.
Noted disadvantages:
-organization strictly in time of not only procedures, but also nutrition (for this reason it can be difficult to keep up with treatment or lunch);
-Refusal of personnel to carry out procedures after being late for them (even for 5-10 minutes);
- at the Hoffman villa there is no lift, which is inconvenient for people with sore feet;
- the food is tasty, but there are too many salty dishes;
-high prices.