Mercure Warszawa Centrum

Liked - the hotel. Perfect for the station, for shopping, and being a base. Disliked - not near the old town. But two stops on metro for tiny cost and you can reach everything, so still recommend.

The hotel is very nice and Warsaw is such a "Business City" that weekend prices for higher end hotels are usually inexpensive. It's a very nice hotel with comfortable rooms, though by now it is a bit old and the decor seems a bit dated - the beds are comfortable, but don't seem as high quality as most of the rest of the hotel - some of the appliances seem like they should be replaced (they work fine, just are old). The highlight of the hotel is definitely the fitness room and sauna for me. The location was ideal for the first couple nights of a long stay, mainly in Warsaw, because Centrum West is next to Zloty Tarase Mall and Centralna Train Station and the underground passages to Centrum -so I could easily run some errands to the pharmacy, get a Sim card and Polish Cell and data service, change money and get a transit pass renewed... that said, if you like to explore the city using public transit like I do, this location is actually kind of "awkward" - unless you're leaving by taxi from the front, it's not easy to cross the street to the main Centrum Square, so you pretty much have to walk through the mall and walk through the train station to get anywhere else in the city (or walk to the NW corner but this is the limited E-W subway line) - personally, that's actually a fairly major negative for me most of the time. The breakfast was good, not great, but jammed with a large tour group that was kind of obnoxious when I went early in the AM - later was packed but not obnoxious