IC Warsaw

We stayed twice in the last two weeks as a Diamond Ambassador with lounge pass for 4 days each stay on points. Total points were 131,000 for the first stay and 111,000 for the second. Each stay included the 4th night free credit card thing. These would be our 4th and 5th stays in the last 18 months. This is one of our favorite IC’s in the world.

Another thread has been discussing points inflation. We are finding that here. While still excellent “value for points”, the points rates have indeed gone up.

We went up to Gdansk in between these stays and had a great time at the Holiday Inn. The train station being only a block from the IC made that easy.

These visits, like all others, resulted in real and good upgrades to large corner rooms facing the Culture and Industry building. The room numbers seem to end in 08 and 11. We are always happy with these rooms and so I did not attempt to use a Suite Upgrade certificate.

The lounge continues to be excellent. The desserts at tea time are fancy and delicious. Happy hour food continues to be elegant but real and substantial. There are plenty of staff and they are incredibly friendly and pleasant.

They have a new reservation system to use the pool, but my wife did not use it this trip, so no review of that.

We had a good time eating at Aruba, a rib place about 4 blocks south on the same road beyond the train station. Also, The walk to the big Holy Cross church is not too bad.

What else can I say, this is just a great hotel.