Chowańcówka

There’s a big yard with a gazebo and fireplace, and the rooms have everything you need. The owners are very nice and leave you in peace. Prices are definitely much lower than in Zakopane. I’ve stayed twice already and will be back for a third time 😎

The bathroom is in the room, and there are lockers. Everything was clean and well maintained, including the bedding. The TV works, though you have to use one remote. I highly recommend it and will come back sometime.

I definitely DO NOT RECOMMEND! The location might be the only positive. The room had no wardrobe or shelf, the paneling and carpet were dirty, and the TV didn’t work even after I reported it to the owner. The bathroom and toilet were out in the hallway, even on the landing, and at night you have to go down steep, narrow stairs. The couches were very uncomfortable, and the bedding had seen better days. Calling it breakfast is generous: one cold cut, one oscypek, one salad and a jug of tea. To reach the dining room, you have to leave the main building and go to an annex, which is unpleasant in the freezing cold first thing in the morning. For that price per night, I’d be ashamed to list a place like this on Booking!

I warn people against staying here. The owner is extremely stingy and calculating, and they’re charging for something they know nothing about, cooking. If you’re going to offer it, do it properly. In my view, rooms here should cost no more than 80 PLN per person. There was no Christmas decor or decorations at all. We stayed with our family of five over the holidays, from December 23rd to December 28th. The rooms felt like they were from the communist era. The bathroom in our room had a shower and toilet but was so tiny we had to go into the room to dry off, it felt claustrophobic. There was another bathroom in the hallway, but it was unusable because of a very unpleasant musty smell. We’d arranged 150 PLN per person with the owner, including breakfast and dinner. On Christmas Eve, the hostess served sausages and cold cuts, including lard. For the meatless meal there was hardly anything, just six hard-boiled eggs for 14 people and some cheese. Anyone fasting on Christmas Eve would have had very little to eat. Breakfast was identical each day, with portions counted out per person. The dinners made by the “cook” were disgusting. At Christmas you hope for something different from your usual food, but what she served couldn’t be called soup. The cucumber soup had no cucumber or carrot, just cucumber juice with potatoes and rice. I’d never had “cucumber soup” with rice before. On our final day, the owner served “żurek,” made with a thin white sausage, and there were maybe three sausages in the tureen. Avoid this place.