Hilton Gdańsk
A modern glass volume set on the Motława river opposite the old crane, five minutes on foot from the reconstructed Hanseatic long market and the amber-workers' lanes.
“It sits where the shipyards used to reach — a modern building that reads the industrial grammar of Gdańsk without imitating it.”
The Hilton opened in 2010 on Spichrzów Island, a strip of land between the Motława and its old branch that for four centuries was Gdańsk's granary quarter. The site was left in ruins after 1945 and rebuilt slowly through the post-war decades; the hotel was one of the first major contemporary buildings to complete on the reclaimed embankment.
The architecture is unfussy: a horizontal glass volume with a pitched roof profile that echoes, without imitating, the merchant houses across the water. The front rooms look directly onto the fifteenth-century Żuraw crane and the Long Embankment; the executive lounge, on the upper floor, has one of the best framed views of the old town skyline in the city.
Gdańsk itself is having its long quiet renaissance — the amber galleries, the reopened Solidarity Centre, the new concert hall in Sopot to the north — and the Hilton is well placed to make sense of it. The service is Hilton-standard; the setting is not.
On the premises
- 150 rooms and suites, many with views of the Żuraw crane
- Executive lounge with panoramic old town outlook
- Spa with pool, sauna and Turkish bath
- Restaurant and terrace on the Motława waterfront
- Meeting rooms and small conference facility
- Ten-minute walk from Gdańsk Główny railway station
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