BoHo Prague Hotel

Accounts differ on what BoHo's building in the New Town used to be: a post office, by most of them, or the city newspaper's office, by one. Either way it was in the business of sending news out, and the height gives the past away: high ceilings, tall windows. The street sees a dark brown shopfront with the name in raised letters over the door, above a pavement of black and white cobbles. Inside, the conversion went minimal and left the height alone, with pale panelled walls and oak floors, and slim black pendants hanging in a row over the reception desk. The library is the room to sit in: a mustard-yellow sofa under a cluster of glass globe lights, and shelves that go up the whole wall, with a ladder for the top ones. The restaurant cooks international and Czech dishes in an open kitchen, behind a wall of glass onto a paved terrace under a cream parasol.

Recommended for a city break spent on foot by day and in the spa by evening, for couples and for families with older children. Old Town Square is five minutes' walk, Wenceslas Square about 500 metres, and the hotel arranges the transfer from the airport. The spa puts its hot pool among alcoves of gold mosaic, with black loungers along one side, and keeps a sauna and a steam room as well as a treatment room for massage. The gym never closes, for anyone who has not walked far enough. The Family Room sleeps four, and babysitting can be arranged. The rooms keep to grey-green and oak, with an orange cushion for warmth, and in one the picture over the bed is the Dancing House, traffic streaking past in front of it: the only thing in the room that will not keep still.