Wrocław · Lower Silesia · on the Odra
Forty-one rooms in a grain store on the river
Barges still pass under the windows. The brick arches on the ground floor were built to hold sacks of rye, and the hoist in the stairwell is still where it always was. From the top landing you can count four bridges without turning your head.
There's a small casino on the first floor of this same building, one flight up from the lobby. Breakfast runs late and the bar runs later, and the Rynek is a twenty-minute walk along the water.
Stay
Three ways to sleep in a granary
Forty-one rooms over five floors. The walls are thick and the window reveals deep, and no two rooms are quite the same shape, since the building settled the floor plan long before we did.
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Room type 01
Arch Room
Ground and first floor, set inside the original loading arches, with a window seat cut into a wall almost a metre thick.
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Room type 02
Hoist Gallery
Third floor, facing the stairwell hoist, with the old beam left exposed above the desk and a long view down the landing.
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Room type 03
Bridge Loft
Top floor under the pitched roof, river side, with two windows that frame the bridges and the lights on the far bank after dark.
Eat & drink
Four rooms with something in them
All four are on the lower floors and open to anyone who walks in off ul. Spichrzowa. The mood is relaxed, whether you're a guest or a neighbour.
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Młyn Kitchen
Lunch and dinner · ground floorSilesian cooking under the arches: duck with grey dumplings, river fish when the market has it, and a short list of Lower Silesian wine from Winna Góra.
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The Hoist Bar
From 4pm · mezzanineEleven stools, a zinc counter and the hoist chain running past the end of it. The rye whisky is good, the vermouth better, and the cocktail menu fits on a single page.
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Kawiarnia Odra
7am to 6pm · river terraceCoffee and cake on the quay side, six tables outside from April. Barges go past close enough to read the names on the hulls.
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Baker's Step
Breakfast until 11.30amThe old weighing room, now four long tables and a counter. Eggs are cooked to order, there are cured meats on the board, and the rye bread comes up from the bakery downstairs, baked at five in the morning.
On the first floor
Ostrow Yard Casino, the casino upstairs from our lobby
18+
Ostrow Yard Casino is inside this building, one floor above the lobby. Walk through the lobby and take the brick stairwell past the grain hoist, or the lift if you prefer. The trip takes under a minute and you never step outdoors. The casino is a single room, roughly the footprint of the old sorting floor, with a few tables and a bar in the corner, and it opens in the evenings, seven nights a week.
Please wear a collar; sportswear and beach shoes won't do. Entry is 18 and over, and door staff check photo ID on every visit, including for guests who are staying in the hotel. Limits at each table are set on the floor by our own staff and change through the week, so ask before you sit down. To exclude yourself from the casino, come to the reception desk and we'll arrange it with you in person. It can't be done any other way.
This is a land-based casino inside a hotel in Wrocław. The website describes the building, the rooms and the casino floor. It offers no online casino games, takes no bets and accepts no deposits or payments.
Getting around
Where the building sits
- Wrocław Główny station is about 2.5 km south. A taxi takes ten minutes outside rush hour; the walk along Oławska is pleasant and takes a little over half an hour.
- Trams stop two streets away. Three lines pass the corner towards the centre, and the same stop sends you east to Sępolno. Buy tickets from the machine on board or on your phone.
- The Rynek is a 20-minute walk upstream along the water, past the market hall. Ostrów Tumski and the cathedral are closer still: fifteen minutes over two bridges.
- Copernicus Airport lies 13 km west. The 106 bus runs to the main station in forty minutes; a car takes roughly twenty-five, more when the ring road is busy.
Find us
Come and knock on the river door
- Address
- Ostrow Yard
ul. Spichrzowa 14
50-237 Wrocław
Poland - Reception
- +48 71 418 62 30
Staffed 24 hours - [email protected]
- Casino enquiries
- Ask at reception, or telephone the number above after 5pm.