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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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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