Fodor's Expert Review Autor Rooms

This small, lovely B&B offers visitors a locals-eye-view entry into Warsaw and delivers. Rooms were styled by Polish designers to include both vintage and contemporary furnishings, and the effect is perfect: beautiful down to the smallest detail, and yet not overstated; designer and chic, but not snobbish; homey, cozy, and comfortable. A four-star standard of quality is delivered in a less formal and definitely more individual way than a typical hotel. This little gem occupies a floor in a historic tenement house, which managed to retained original wooden floors, doors, and windows. Each room has a built-in "box" bathroom, and each one is different. The common spaces, where you can help yourself to tea or coffee at any time (and where breakfast is served in the morning) feature a small but tasty library of books about Warsaw, art, and design plus a turntable and a collection of vinyl records. The owners are designer themselves, and they are happy to share their inside knowledge of the city—and they do know the good stuff!