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Hotel Imperial is one of the quality accommodation options in the Old Town that won’t bust your budget. The Toompea castle is up the hill and the Town Hall Square is two minutes away. The hotel boasts a renovated medieval building with a fragment of the old city wall smartly integrated into its interior. There’s a small conference room for 25 people and Tallinn’s only cheese restaurant downstairs, in addition to a decent pub.
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The only hotel on Viru Street, Tallinn’s main tourist promenade, hotel Vana Wiru is skillfully hidden behind a shopping centre facing the street. A labyrinth of tiny Old Town streets begins right behind the hotel, which has an impressive marbledecorated lobby and highly competitive prices for single and double rooms. The hotel’s restaurant offers Mediterranean cuisine and you can walk right onto Viru from the pub connected to the lobby. Hotel clients get a free pass to the Venus nightclub located nearby.
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Now a classy hotel set at the corner of the streets where a significant part of the city’s nightlife takes place, this art nouveau building used to serve as a bank during the early years of the 20th century. The overall interior design matches that of the quiet pre-First World War period, when carriages were more common in Tallinn than cars. Sauna services include a Turkish bath in addition to the usual Finnish sauna. The restaurant is a bit more expensive than others in the area, but certainly offers more privacy.
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This large new hotel with a stunning glass and steel facade is in the middle of a busy area where two shopping centres, main bank offices and a multiplex cinema attract lots of people most times of the day. Stylish Nordic interior design, free morning sauna, an upscale nightclub and the steady tourist flow provided by the Tallink ferry company make this hotel a strong player in the accommodation market.
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Casandra Apartments offers 20 one, two and three-bedroom apartments ranging in size from 33 square metres to 170 square metres. They cost from 1,300 kroons to 16,000 kroons per day for up to four persons. The classier ones have a sauna and a view. The modern building stands across the road from Stockmann shopping centre. Breakfast and car parking come at extra cost, but the building has 24/7 security. One of the apartments is in a different building at the Town Hall Square.
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A great option if you value a leafy neighbourhood and dead-calm surroundings more than a full-service package and proximity to nightlife. Across the road there are the Song Festival grounds and the Kadriorg park area begins just 100 metres away from the hotel entrance. Facilities include a sauna that can host 15 guests and a conference centre for 70 to 100 people. In addition to the French restaurant, the hotel opened an outdoor grill bar in summer 2005.
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A relatively new hotel (it opened in 2003) with funky design and a reasonable room rate. There’s a business centre and all expected amenities for business travellers, including internet access in all rooms. Pets are welcome at the hotel, so request an allergy-free room if necessary. Non-smoking rooms available on request. Facilities include a sauna, steam room, solarium and fitness centre as well as a chill-out area and a popular bar/bistro. Breakfast is a very well stocked buffet.
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Although it’s sometimes noisy due to tipsy Finnish tourists, Metropol’s location and services are too good to be neglected. ISDN and wi-fi internet connection will let you stay in touch with home for free, and some of the rooms have their own private sauna. You can also take a short trip from the hotel bar, called Berlin, to the hotel casino, called London. The hotel’s nightclub Panoraam caters mostly to the taste of the over thirties. Rotermanni modern art gallery and a multiplex cinema are a few steps away.
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This modestly priced and no-frills hotel’s biggest advantage is its location between the Old Town and the Kristiine Keskus consumer mecca. The controversial Soviet Second World War monument, known as the Bronze Soldier, is not far away, as is the National Library. The conference centre can host 40 people. The Estonian countrystyle pub on the ground floor has a cosy terrace which is open in summer. Don’t miss the morning sauna as it’s included in the room price along with breakfast.
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The conference and reception facilities of this upmarket Old Town hotel can host up to 100 people. The décor resembles that of the art deco period of the 1920s and 1930s when the Estonian Republic first gained independence.The hotel building includes the Nevski restaurant, which is good for traditional Russian cuisine, and a number of other European specialities. Kuldse Notsu Kõrts, the second restaurant, with an entrance from a neighbouring street, is one of the best places in Tallinn to taste authentical Estonian food.
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Set right between the airport and the country’s largest shopping centre, Hotel Ülemiste is a new and very successful glass, steel and concrete reincarnation of its Soviet predecessor. There’s a view over Lake Ülemiste, the city’s fresh water source, from the restaurant terrace (open in summer) and also from some of the rooms. In addition to a conference room for 80 people, you can also rent a fully equipped office.
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Opened in 2004, this hotel has invested heavily modern building and interior design. Set in a quiet and green area just a few steps away from the Old Town’s Toompea hill and the British embassy, a savvy client should make sure the room has a bath and a view of the Old Town. There’s no wi-fi, but you can hook up your laptop to the internet via a cable in the room.
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The ‘Spa’ class rooms face the sea in this hotel built next to the Olympic yachting centre in Pirita district. Renovated in 2003, Pirita Top Spa is the sportiest of all Tallinn hotels as it has a swimming pool, saunas and spa treatment services. The restaurant’s menu is quite short and mostly European. While absent in the rooms, wi-fi is available in the café downstairs. Saunas and the pool are free for guests.
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Perhaps one sign of the quality of the Radisson SAS is that Israeli president Moshe Katsav stayed here in autumn 2005 during his visit to Estonia. The hotel’s conference centre is also among the best in the city. The Radisson SAS is worth including in your city sightseeing tour for the breath-taking view from the café on the roof, which is open in summer. The hotel has unfortunately closed its cigar store in the lobby, but it has introduced free broadband internet access for guests from September 2005—and there’s wi-fi too.
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Thoroughly renovated a couple of years ago, this hotel now has a huge European cuisine restaurant for 455 guests and an impressive conference centre that can welcome about 1,000 people. You can look down on the city while relaxing in Olümpia’s sauna on the 26th floor. The hotel was built to provide quality accommodation for the participants of the 1980 Olympics yachting regatta, and since then has become popular both among locals, who frequent it’s great café, and tourists.
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A good compromise on location and price, Park Hotel also has a beauty saloon in the same building and a very decent casino with both tables and slot machines. The ‘Casino’-style rooms of the hotel, designed with a hint of the 1960s red and black casino-house colour scheme, are larger and have a view to the Old Town, which is a five-minute walk away. Kadriorg park is as close as the Old Town and there’s also a small park right next to the hotel.
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This hotel perfectly fits the classical image depicted in books and films about the 1930 and 40s. A modest yet stylish building, it stands at the busy intersection of Vabaduse (Freedom) Square and some of the rooms have a great view on the Old Town about 500 metres away. Both The Rolling Stones and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexius II have found the Scandic Palace a good place to stay.
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Cream of the crop of Tallinn’s accommodation market, this hotel was the first in the country to get a five-star rating. A popular place to stay for high-ranking diplomats and international celebrities. The lobby is among the cosiest in town, with traditional limestone walls, massive dark oak beams on the ceiling and a fireplace. The rooms also have craftily renovated details of the authentic interior which don’t let you forget you’re in the Old Town. There are also two fully equipped conference rooms for 58 people.
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When the Finns took over this Soviet hotel built for the 1980 Olympics regatta, they quickly turned it into a respectable enterprise that has since become a city landmark. Apart from having one of the newest conference centres and the Viru Keskus shopping centre right next door, Viru has a strategic location just 100 metres from the Old Town. Live rock music in the hotel’s nightclub Amigo attracts a semi-Finnish, semi-local crowd.
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A new, modest hotel set next to the office building that used to host all the editorial offices of Soviet Estonian newspapers. Wi-fi is only available in the lobby and the bar, but the rooms are shining with new decor and the Old Town is only a 10-minute walk away. You’ll have the chance to see many colourful wedding ceremonies as the wedding registration office is just around the corner.
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Tourism guru Tarmo Sumberg knew what he was doing when he announced that he would turn three rather shabby medieval residential buildings—built next to each other and known as the Three Sisters— into a top-class hotel. All the rooms are spacious, equipped with TVs and DVD players in addition to the full variety of communication lines, and the hotel itself is bustling with tasteful luxury. One suite even has a piano. The conference facilities include one 60-seat and one 12-seat hall. This five-star hotel is one of Tallinn’s most interesting and combines historical charm (the original buildings are from the 14th century) with modern functionality.
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This trendy hotel has recently expanded by opening a second building right next to the old one. Amenities include a free-to-use computer terminal with free internet connection in every room, and free coffee and tea. The more expensive ‘Zen’ rooms also have a whirlpool bath with aromatherapy accessories and a comfortable, gravity-free chair. Massage is available at extra cost. For a piece of rustic atmosphere in this high-tech home, visit the Tricky Ants pub theatre in the courtyard.
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