Sepia hotel will be located in the Bydgoszcz Old Town Courtesy of Hotel Sepia

A four-star hotel in a 19th-century tenement house will open next year in the heart of Bydgoszcz

Investor Cube has launched construction of its four-star Sepia hotel in the center of Bydgoszcz in northern Poland. The hospitality facility, comprising 160 beds in 90 rooms, is scheduled to open in spring 2014.

The hotel will be located on ul. Focha, in the vicinity of Opera Nova. The new building will be adjacent to an historic tenement house erected in 1884 that previously hosted the news office of the Ilustrowany Kurier Polski daily newspaper. The new scheme will be five storeys tall – the same as the historic building.

On the roof, there will be a terrace with a view of the city’s old town. The ground floor will host the reception desk, a restaurant, a bar and five suites. The hotel’s kitchen and a fitness club will be located in the basement. There will also be VIP lounges, conference rooms and a business center in the building.

Sepia will be one of the few hospitality facilities in the Bydgoszcz Old Town. According to analyses commissioned by the investor, there is still demand for hotels in the city. Bydgoszcz continues to host an increasing number of fairs and conferences every year and there are not enough beds for businesspeople, let alone tourists, surveys revealed.

Cube therefore has little reason to fear competition, even with a 117-room Campanile hotel about to open at the intersection of ul. Jagiellońska and ul. Chopina, in the center of Bydgoszcz.

The investment will cost zł.29.1 million. Cube has received almost zł.12 million in EU subsidies and will finance the rest of the investment with a bank loan.

Karolina Kowalska