Description: Limba Pension is a roadside inn located on the edge of the High Tatras region, a kilometre before the Tatranska Kotlina resort village. We spent four days there in August 2011 and can recommend it wholeheartedly as a place to stay and/or for excellent and very good value food.
We had a family room which consisted of a spacious main room with a double bed, a sitting area with three bucket armchairs and a small table, some cupboard space and a balcony with a stunning view of Lomnica peak (the second highest mountain in the Tatras). To the side of the room, ladder-like but comfortable enough steps led to a mezzanine level just under the roof with a Velux window which contained two single low beds for the children. There was also a spacious bathroom with a shower. All in all, we had plenty of space and found our little studio comfortable and private.
It would be good if the Velux window up the steps had a blind or a curtain and a kettle for tea and coffee making would be nice too, but apart from that I had no complaints about the room at all and at nominally 10 Euro a night per person (we paid 35 for four in recognition of the age of the Younger Child), with free wi-fi, it was pretty good value too.
The pension is off the main road that leads to Poland from Poprad, but we found it quite enough so the traffic didn't cause any problems. There is plenty of parking to the side of the inn, as well as a grassy area with a swing-seat and a babbling brook flows nearby. An outdoor barbecue area was being built when we were there, so future visitors have this to look forward too.
The only staff member that we met was very friendly and really helpful and accommodating. She spoke some English, though I communicated with her mostly in the Slovak-Polish mixture. She let me use her mobile phone for free when I needed to locate a lost bag (despite the call being to a foreign mobile) and when we inquired about laundry, we were offered a service wash of "everything we had" for 15 Euro. Three bags of washing came back a day later well washed, dried and folded and altogether worth the charge.
We had breakfast at the pension every day: the full rate was 4.30 Euro but as we declined the eggs/frankfurters part, we had plenty of toast, bread, jam, honey, cereal, yoghurt, tea coffee and juice for 2.50 Euro each.
Limba seems a popular place to eat and was busy most lunchtimes with some evening traffic too. The food was very good, with traditional Slovak mountain dishes like haluski and pirohy (sheep cheese gnocchi and stuffed pasta), great value thick soups, the yummiest potato pancakes I ever had and lovely dishes of a less basic character. The duck leg with red cabbage in wine was wonderful, and the wild boar on rosehip sauce even better. There was a good selection of wine and bottled lager, though on tap only a mediocre Kozel was on offer. Those planning to eat need to note that some dishes (most specials and game for example) were only available from Wednesday till Sunday at the time of our stay.
All in all, a definite recommendation for a stop-over or even a longer stay in the High Tatras, especially in the eastern end (though it's a short range and nowhere was further than half an hour's drive).
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