Phew, thank God it’s Friday!!! Did you also take a breath of relief this morning? I swear I could hear you breathe! 🙂 I should have been breathing with ease since Thursday evening, since we took off to Dublin from the Modlin airport, but unfortunately a big journey requires so much preparations that I have a weekend to deal with my laptop, Internet and work… well, the end justifies the means! 🙂
But I’m not going to write about it. It’s Friday, so I’ll give you a weekend inspiration 🙂 It’s for those of you who have the time, no plans and would like to enjoy the golden Polish autumn… Do you remember my post from the beginning of this week about vintage in Mierzęcin Palace? It was a wonderful, magical, sunny, autumn experience… and we definitely have to repeat it someday! We just have to wait until the next vintage… 🙂
But, is it worth visiting Pałacu Mierzęcin Wellness & Wine Resort without a purpose, just for a weekend? Definitely! Just take a look and you’ll start planning your trip!! 🙂 We’d like to come back in the spring with our friends and I believe that we’ll finally be able to take full advantage of all the possibilities offered by the Palace due to our various interests.
The Palace itself is quite old; it was erected between 1861-1863. It’s a romantic, English neo-gothic residence. Obviously, it initially had private owners, but after World War II it became the property of the State Treasury that located an Agricultural Farm in Mierzęcin (founded in 1959). The Palace itself and its grange buildings were turned into offices, a kindergarten, a day room, and employee flats… This situation lasted until 1991, and subsequently the Palace fell into oblivion and it was abandoned. Finally, its current owner – Novol Company – restored it between 1999-2001.
The area around Pałac Mierzęcin is vast. It’s not my area of expertise – centres / hotels located, frankly speaking, in the middle of nowhere. I’ve never liked hotels-oases whose guests never cross the hotel gate and never see anything. We usually travel with a purpose – we choose a certain hotel in order to visit a town / a neighbourhood. However, Mierzęcin offers so much to see and do in the hotel, and the centre, that we didn’t have enough time!
I was above all charmed by the surroundings of the Palace, the magnificent park, the grange buildings made of red brick (I love it!), a lot of walking space – the joyful, running walks with Maks and the romantic evening walks. I’m not going to mention the vintage because I’ve already said that I was amazed by it!
- Destylarnia restaurant with grange building in the background
- it’s mysterious even in daylight…
- golden Polish autumn in Mierzęcin — a the Palace tower view
- for a romantic evening walk
The park terrain around the Palace is wonderful… paths and alleys, a pond, buildings of the former grange where currently guest rooms are located, the Destylarnia restaurant, Grape Spa, wine cellars and a stable. There are many relaxing options, except for walking… Everyone can find something for her/himself!
PAŁAC MIERZĘCIN FOR A WOMAN…
Everyone… It’s a bit cliché, isn’t it? 🙂 But it really is for everyone! There are horses, tennis courts for sportswomen and men, and a playground for kids and… a lovely SPA for us – always busy, always with not-enough-time, always looking at their watches… What can I say? It’s for me! Sometimes my weeks are so busy that I don’t even realise that my day has started when it’s already ending, and I have a long to-do-list for the next day. It’s been like this everyday lately. And if i.e. Maks has a night party and he turns on all the lights at 5 am and decides to take out his cars… and I went to sleep at 3 am! I get up too late, I cannot wake up properly, I do everything in haste, and I spill the milk and forget to pack extra clothes to the nursery, I’m finishing one project, fighting for the second one, loosing the third, calls, e-mails, e-mails, calls… phew, do you sometimes feel like going crazy?? I do – and I did even twice this week 🙂 In a situation like this I get my favourite coffee from Coffee Heaven (Orka forever!!) or take a trip and leave this hectic Warsaw frenzy… And we relax! In Mierzęcin, except for relaxation during walks, dinners and wine, you can remarkably relax in the SPA.
I don’t know many SPAs (I don’t have the time!! :)) but this one is impressive! It’s new, from 2011, and everything is perfectly suitable, lovely planned and believe me, I’d sometimes give a lot to teleport to a heated deckchair and to have a peeling applied to my body… and in Mierzęcin they have a special, grape seeds peeling!
- relaxing atmosphere of the waiting room — I feel better already!
- massage — it’s best to take the advantage of the benefits of the vineyard
- maybe I’ll read a newaspaper?
- maybe I’ll dream of Asia? 🙂
- and then I’ll jump into the pool!
- and finally, I’ll get warm in one of many saunas!
I don’t know about you, but I feel better already from the mere looking at these photos. Grape Spa in Mierzęcin has a swimming pool, a variety of saunas and caves with various temperatures and various features, massage rooms, and a wine bath. And the best thing is that they use this the grapes collected in the vineyard in their relaxing and rejuvenating treatments. It’s worth trying!
PAŁAC MIERZĘCIN FOR A GUY…
Well, SPA can also be useful for men, but not all men fancy it… But everyone likes a swimming pool, local wine and the Destylarnia restaurant, and the sporty ones can also use a gym and a tennis court. My experience from our trips is: women gossip and walk with children, and men gossip and play tennis 🙂 And Pałac Mierzęcin is perfect for this! There’s another sport available: horse riding…
- a bit of sport
- Maks is on cloud nine!
- training
And a tasty dinner should follow sport activities! We visited the Destylarnia restaurant only once because during the vintage other meals were served outside or in the palace restaurant. We were delighted by the restaurant’s décor as it’s interior is associated with its origin – it’s a former distillery. We had a delicious, warming onion soup with cheese toast, and boar tenderloin… And Maks eagerly chose a chicken soup and spaghetti bolognese of the children’s menu.
- interior of Destylarnia
- artistically served tenderloins with hot beetroot salad, mushroom and grilled vegetables
PAŁAC MIERZĘCIN FOR A CHILD…
I mentioned women, men, so now it’s time for children. When we go with Maks (so, almost always!), attractions and facilities for children are essential. First, we saw a kids’ corner in one of the palace chambers – small but with a lot of quite interesting toys (puzzles, jigsaws). It made Maks happy! The restaurant offers a separate children’s menu with rather typical (spaghetti, chicken nuggets, soups, pancakes) but very tasty dishes – in fact they are so tasty that when I was feeding the kids’ bolognese to Maks on our way back, his dad was also eating! So, another plus! And there are many outside attractions – a vast playground, birds, pheasants, peacocks to watch, ponies to stroke, a huge park to play, chestnuts and… tractors. It’s Maks’s personal new favourite – well, he’s been thinking of himself as of a real men for a while now 😉
- visiting ponies with granddad
- playground — unfortunately, on the second day the weather wasn’t good
- Maks’s favourite toy — after vintage 🙂
- you have to try them all! 🙂
ROOMS…
There are over 60 rooms in 3 buildings in Pałac Mierzęcin: in the Palace, the Outbuilding and the Grange. We stayed in the Palace and that’s where we were having our breakfasts. Rooms are very decent, bathrooms are new and very pleasant. But I cannot say that we favour the palace style 🙂 We prefer a bit more modern approach towards décor or old, but also regional and local style. But it’s our opinion – rooms are very decent. We didn’t spend much time inside anyway, as there was so much to do! Check for yourselves! 🙂
- standard double room in the Palace
PRACTICAL INFO:
PRICES:
If you want to know the current prices, check the website here. There are quite a few promotions – in the summer the price was PLN 115 per person per day including breakfast, similarly in November. Until the end of 2013 – it’s PLN 120 per person including breakfast. It’s not bad at all! There are also promotions in the SPA, so it’s worth being up to date! 🙂
Mierzęcin 1
66 -520 Dobiegniew
woj. lubuskie
e-mail: recepcja@palacmierzecin.pl
T: 95 71 31 500
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