Warsaw – A Welcome Wow great for corporate conferences, incentive travel and more.
“So I stopped in my tracks when I turned a corner and saw a range of pastels — cream, peach, blue, light green — on façades that had previously been uniformly grey concrete, crumbling with neglect. It was quite like spring.” (Martin Sandbu)
Spring has moved into high summer. Warsaw has turned from ashen phoenix to a city of many colours and shade.
Warsaw has become a food lovers’ city, a party city, a corporate conference and travel incentive city, a shoppers’ city, a city of jazz and blues, museums and more.
The Old Town is a triumph of national pride, a devastated medieval city lovingly recreated with market squares, quaint streets and mysterious shops, shops that invite you to explore, along with hidden coffee bars and street cafes/restaurants.
The financial centre is a mini Manhattan and soon to host Europe’s tallest building. Close by is the present tallest building in Poland. The Palace of Culture and Science. Not truly a palace from the outside but inside – over 3,000 rooms, the ability to host over 2,000 for a gala dinner and many event spaces.
In other districts, what a pleasant surprise, from the street you see seemingly long rows of older elegant buildings, restaurants, cafes, bars and shops with apartments above. The elegant facades left intact. And, behind these elegant fronts you will discover the buildings form blocks with side and parallel streets and inside each block large internal courtyards and gardens. Urban Warsaw must be a delight to live and work in.
Across the river from the old town you will find communist industrial buildings that now house the urban chic with upmarket apartments and restaurants. While the river provides a great party venue and permits many activity options.
And strung along the river- beautiful parks, botanic gardens and elegant palaces. Over one third of Warsaw is green space.
Hotels range from Warsaw’s 1901 Grand Dame – The Bristol – through to the elegantly refurbished Marriott and on to a new generation of hotels. Palaces and other building of architectural interest are being converted to award winning urban boutique hotels.
Across the road from The Bristol, on the Old Town’s doorstep, a new luxury 5 star is being created in a grand old building. An all-suite Raffles complete with a very up market shopping mall.
Warsaw offers so many activities from city experiences to river bank and park that there is no need to travel far.
However, Warsaw’s high speed rail enables a two city event or city and countryside. Hold a conference element in Warsaw and party by train, with privatised rail carriages, to Krakow, (and nearby Tatra Mountains), for an incentive element or take a car rally into the “land of a thousand lakes” and dine in a Teutonic castle.
Warsaw offers so many options – all you need is Poland Concept to propose those that fit your event brief and budget.