Ljubljana isn't exactly blessed with top hotels, so I chose the Intercontinental. Apart from the Intercontinental, there is only one other 5-star hotel in the city, the Grand Plaza opposite. The hotel is located in a high-rise building that it has all to itself, so a touch of the big wide world.

The lobby is quite modern, although not really appealing to me.

Since groups often stay at the hotel, the lobby can sometimes resemble a zoo. It's definitely not an Aman, but then again, it doesn't have Aman prices either.

But there are cocktail classes.

Incidentally, birthday parties in the presidential suite were advertised with the following photo:

Probably only profoundly evil people like me wonder whether the lady is included. For me, this is an example of when marketing goes really wrong.