Where to Stay in Olomouc — Best Hotels & Areas
Curated by Our Guild Explorers · Updated August 2026
Olomouc is the one we would push hardest. It has the second-largest historic reservation in the Czech Republic after Prague, a UNESCO-listed Holy Trinity Column that is the largest baroque sculpture group in Central Europe, six baroque fountains, a cathedral, a university that has been going since 1573 — and almost no tourists. It also has something the rest of this book cannot offer: the historic centre is flat. Genuinely, reliably flat, with the squares and the streets between them level underfoot. For an unhurried traveller who has found Prague’s cobbled hills hard going, Olomouc is the answer. Below are the places to stay by style, each with an honest note and a Book Me link straight to Trip.com; every hotel here was verified against Trip.com first, and three candidates that failed the check were left out.
Choosing Your Area
The historic centre is small, level and where you want to be. That is very nearly the whole of the advice.
The two squares, the cathedral quarter, or out by the congress hotels?
The historic centre runs between Horní náměstí (the Upper Square, with the town hall, the astronomical clock and the Holy Trinity Column) and Dolní náměstí (the Lower Square) — a fifteen-minute walk end to end, level the whole way, with the baroque fountains scattered between them. Stay here. The cathedral quarter around St Wenceslas, a few minutes east, is quieter still and equally flat, and holds the archbishop’s palace and the university buildings. The congress and business hotels sit a little outside the centre; they are larger and cheaper and perfectly comfortable, and Olomouc’s trams make the distance trivial. Unlike almost everywhere else in this book, there is no hill to factor in and no bad choice to make.
Luxury & the larger hotels
Olomouc has no grand palace hotel. What it has are two well-run modern hotels of a good international standard.
NH Collection Olomouc Congress
The most polished hotel in the city, a modern international property with proper lifts, level access, a good breakfast and the reliability that comes with a chain that knows what it is doing. It is a short flat walk or a tram stop from the historic squares. If you want a comfortable, predictable base with no stairs to negotiate, this is it.
Book Me on Trip.com ›Clarion Congress Hotel Olomouc
A large modern hotel with a pool, a spa and extensive conference facilities, a tram ride from the old town. It is built for business travel and works very well for leisure travellers who want space, facilities and parking rather than a historic address. Excellent value for the standard of room.
Book Me on Trip.com ›Boutique & Character
Small hotels in the historic centre, and this is where Olomouc is genuinely lovely.
Orea Hotel Arigone Olomouc
A hotel formed from a group of restored historic houses in the quiet cathedral quarter, with vaulted cellars, a courtyard and a good deal of period character — and, unusually for such a building, a lift. It is a few flat minutes from the Upper Square and one of the most pleasant places to stay in Moravia. Our pick of the city.
Book Me on Trip.com ›Hotel Trinity
A comfortable small hotel in the historic centre, named for the Holy Trinity Column it sits near, and about as central as Olomouc gets. Straightforward, well kept and level with the square outside. A good-value base for two or three nights of unhurried walking.
Book Me on Trip.com ›Budget & Value
Olomouc is inexpensive even by Czech standards, and being a student city it does the cheap end properly.
Comfort Hotel Olomouc Centre
A dependable mid-price hotel in the centre — clean, modern, lift, decent breakfast, no surprises — at a rate that would not get you a hostel bed in western Europe. It is the practical answer for most visitors and it is on the flat.
Book Me on Trip.com ›Long Story Short Hostel & Cafe
A rather good design hostel and cafe in a converted historic building in the centre, with private rooms as well as dorms — the sort of place that has won awards and is pleasant to sit in even if you are not staying. The cheapest respectable bed in the city, and considerably more characterful than the price suggests.
Book Me on Trip.com ›Family-friendly
A flat city with fountains, trams, an astronomical clock and a park round the old walls — this is easy going with children.
Clarion Congress Hotel Olomouc
The pool settles it. A large hotel with family-sized rooms, a swimming pool, parking and lifts, a tram ride from the old town. For a family this is the most practical base in the city, and the tram journey in is itself usually a hit.
Book Me on Trip.com ›NH Collection Olomouc Congress
The alternative if you would rather be within walking distance of the squares. Larger, better-equipped rooms than the small historic hotels, proper lifts and level access — which with a pushchair or tired legs is worth more than period charm.
Book Me on Trip.com ›Adults-only — an honest answer
None verified, and we will not invent one.
No adults-only hotels here — but plenty of quiet
Olomouc is a small university city, not a resort, and we could confirm no formally adults-only property on Trip.com. What we can tell you is where the quiet is: the cathedral quarter east of the Upper Square is genuinely still after dark, and the small historic hotels there — Arigone above — are peaceful. The student bars cluster around the lower end of the centre and can be lively at weekends in term time, so book towards the cathedral rather than towards Dolní náměstí if you are a light sleeper.
Pet-friendly
Flat streets and a ring of parks round the old fortifications make this an easy city with a dog.
Confirm the policy — but the walking is excellent
We could not verify individual pet policies for Olomouc’s hotels to the standard we hold ourselves to, so we have labelled none of them pet-friendly rather than send you somewhere that will turn you away. Use the browse link below, filter for pet-friendly on Trip.com and telephone to confirm before you pay. What we will say is that Olomouc is an unusually good city to have a dog in: the old fortifications have been turned into a continuous ring of parks around the historic centre, the streets are flat, and the Bezručovy sady gardens along the river are a proper walk rather than a token green square.
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Why should I go to Olomouc at all?
Because it is the second-largest historic reservation in the country, it has a UNESCO-listed baroque column, six extraordinary fountains, a cathedral and a 1573 university — and almost nobody visits it. You will hear Czech spoken around you rather than English, pay half what Prague charges, and walk a beautiful historic centre without queueing for anything.
How do I get there from Prague?
By train, in about two hours, on frequent fast services run by both the state railway and the private operators. Olomouc is on the main line towards Ostrava and Krakow, so services are plentiful and cheap. The station is a short tram ride or a twenty-minute flat walk from the centre.
Is Olomouc really flat?
Yes — and it is the main practical reason we recommend it to unhurried travellers. The historic centre between the Upper and Lower Squares is level, the cathedral quarter is level, and the ring of parks around the old walls is level. There is no equivalent of Prague’s castle hill or Český Krumlov’s slopes. The cobbles are still cobbles, so bring proper shoes, but the climbing is gone.
What is the Holy Trinity Column?
A thirty-five-metre baroque sculpture group on the Upper Square, finished in 1754, and the largest of its kind in Central Europe. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in its own right, has a chapel inside its base, and is the single most impressive object in the city. It is free, it is outdoors, and it is right in front of the town hall.
Is the Christmas market worth it?
Very much so. Olomouc’s market fills the Upper Square around the column and the town hall through Advent, and it is the loveliest of the three big Moravian and Bohemian markets and by far the least besieged. Hot honey wine, wooden stalls, and room to move — which is more than can be said for Prague’s.
What should I eat here?
Olomoucké tvarůžky — a small, pungent, ripened Olomouc cheese with protected origin status and a formidable smell. It is a genuine local speciality and something of a test of nerve. Beyond that, Moravian wine rather than beer, and the courtyard restaurants around the two squares.
How many nights?
Two. One is enough to see the squares and the column; two lets you add the cathedral, the museum, the park ring and an evening in a wine room without hurrying. It also works well as a base for Kroměříž and the Moravian countryside.