Accommodation
🏨 Sport Hotel Ljubljana
Ideal for Full Country Delegations
If your country is planning to travel as a unified group, Sport Hotel Ljubljana is your ideal match. Located in a peaceful part of Ljubljana surrounded by green parks and sports facilities, this hotel is known for hosting athletic and educational teams from around Europe. It offers plenty of space, flexibility in room arrangements, and direct access to group-friendly logistics.
Why delegations will love it:
- 🛏️ Variety of multi-bed rooms and single options
- 🍽️ Full board available – dining room used to serving large groups
- 🧑🏫 Separate rooms for team meetings or evening preparations
- 🚍 Ample bus access and parking for country buses or shuttles
- 🌿 Calm and green surroundings – ideal for team cohesion and focus
Location & Access
- 📍 Walking distance to venue: ~52 minutes (3.7 km) for the sporty
- 🚍 Best bus lines: every 7 minutes
( bus numbers / 01 transfer to 06 / 6B / 19I / PR A15 0190 2 (61094) ) - 🗺️ Address: Gerbičeva ulica 57, 1000 Ljubljana
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This hotel ensures that all members of your delegation— from coaches to competitors — are under one roof, enabling easy coordination, stress-free scheduling, and team spirit building in a calm and practical environment.
🏨 Grand Hotel Union Eurostars
Art-Nouveau Grandeur in the Beating Heart of Ljubljana
Imagine stepping through revolving brass doors into a lobby that once welcomed Albert Einstein, Agatha Christie and a century’s worth of diplomats. Murmurs echo beneath soaring Art-Nouveau arches, the smell of freshly roasted coffee drifts from the famous Union Café, and golden chandeliers—original 1905 pieces—glitter above polished marble. This is Grand Hotel Union, Ljubljana’s first “skyscraper” and still its most storied address. The moment you arrive, you feel the graceful confidence of a city that has blended Central-European elegance with youthful Slovenian creativity. For WRO guests, the Union offers a calm oasis just 250 metres from Prešeren Square; step outside and you’re instantly in the Old Town’s pedestrian zone, yet inside you’ll find hushed corridors, spacious high-ceilinged rooms and a service team that has mastered discreet excellence for 120 years.
Why you’ll love it
- 🛏️ 194 classic or deluxe rooms (24–35 m²); many boast Juliet balconies framing Ljubljana Castle.
- 💦 Rooftop indoor pool beneath a glass cupola, Finnish sauna & massage studio.
- 🍰 Café Union—the city’s historic living room—serves its legendary kremšnita and single-origin espresso.
- 🎻 Grand Union Hall: Slovenia’s largest hotel ballroom, perfect for delegation briefings or receptions.
- 🌱 Green Globe–certified; zero-waste bathrooms and 100 % renewable electricity.
Getting to Gospodarsko razstavišče
- 🚶♂️ 13 min walk (1.0 km) straight up Miklošičeva Street.
- 🚍 Bus lines 6 or 9 from “Pošta Miklošičeva” every 6 min; 3-min ride, one stop.
🏨 uHotel by Eurostars
Sky-Pool Serenity & Contemporary Style Next to Old-World Charm
Connected internally to its heritage sister yet styled for the modern traveler, uHotel greets you with a light-filled atrium, terrazzo floors and minimalist Nordic furnishings. Picture yourself gliding up a glass elevator to the top-floor sky-pool: warm water, a retractable roof and an Instagram-worthy panorama of Ljubljana Castle glowing at twilight. Downstairs, baristas grind fair-trade beans, digital nomads tap away in co-working niches, and families lounge in oversized modular sofas. uHotel is proof that “city-centre” needn’t mean cramped—its rooms are among the biggest in town, purpose-built for guests who travel with laptops, Lego kits … and maybe a spare pair of robot wheels.
Highlights
- 🛏️ 228 rooms & studios (from 28 m²) – many with sofa-beds for triples; connecting units for coaches plus teens.
- 🏊 Sky-pool & sun-deck, gym, sauna.
- 🍽️ All-day “Five-Point” Restaurant with Slovenian-Mediterranean fusion menu.
- 👨👩👧👦 Self-service laundry and kids’ play corner lighten long stays.
Venue Access
- 🚶♂️ 14 min via Miklošičeva.
- 🚍 Same 6/9 bus stop as Grand Union (3 min ride).
🏨 Exe Lev Hotel
Mid-Century Icon Reimagined for the Analytical Mind
Rising 13 stories beside a leafy chestnut avenue, Hotel Lev began life in 1964 as socialist Yugoslavia’s showpiece of modern architecture. Today, after a Spanish-designed makeover, its marble lobby pairs retro elegance with smart new tech. Check-in staff offer artisan truffles from the Soča Valley while the lobby pianist plays quiet jazz; by the window, vintage Leica photos of Ljubljana in the 60s set a tone of thoughtful exploration. For mentors, engineers and national organizers who crave a composed workspace—and maybe a late-night espresso to final-check code—Lev delivers business calm without forfeiting soul.
Key features
- 🛏️ 236 rooms: Classic, Superior Castle-View, and themed “Writer’s Suites” celebrating Slovenian authors.
- 📚 24/7 Library Lounge with complimentary coffee machine—perfect for strategy huddles.
- 🏋️ Compact gym; free city-bike rental for a ten-minute spin through Tivoli Park.
- 🥐 Extensive Slovenian-style breakfast buffet (potica cake highly recommended).
Transport to Venue
- 🚶♂️ 17 min walk (1.3 km) along Dunajska Road.
- 🚍 Bus 14 from “Nameščanska” every 10 min; 6-min ride.
🏨 B&B Hotel Ljubljana Park
Budget-Smart, Planet-Kind, Two Blocks from Creative Metelkova
Wake to birdsong in the hotel’s mini urban forest, grab a bio-croissant from the zero-plastic buffet, refill your bottle at the free filtered-water station, and you’re ready to conquer the day. B&B Hotel Park is Slovenia’s first city hotel to earn both Green Key and Slovenia Green Accommodation labels. Its ethos is simple: keep prices fair, shrink the footprint, foster community. Murals by local street artists energize every corridor; rooftop beehives produce the honey you taste at breakfast; staff even loan seed packets if you fancy planting a Slovenian wildflower back home. Just beyond the lobby, the Metelkova cultural quarter hums with murals, sculpture gardens and live music—an inspiring post-competition playground for creative minds.
Practical perks
- 🛏️ 206 refurbished rooms (singles to four-bed family units) with hypoallergenic cork flooring and blackout blinds.
- 🌳 Pocket-park terrace, free yoga mats, rentable e-scooters.
- 🖥️ Two co-working pods and printer corner—handy for last-minute pit-runsheets.
- ♻️ Strict waste-sorting, compostable key cards, no single-use plastics.
Getting to Gospodarsko razstavišče
- 🚶♂️ 11 min (850 m) – the quickest of our partner hotels.
- 🚍 If your feet protest: lines 2, 9, 27 from “Tabor” every 5 min, 3-min ride.
🏨 Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel Ljubljana
The Single-Room Champion inside BTC City
If you value a private recharge space after a day of robotics buzz, Radisson Blu Plaza is your jackpot – the hotel with the largest stock of single rooms in our allocation. Set in the vibrant BTC City shopping district, it pairs business-class comfort with after-hours fun: 450+ shops, a cinema multiplex and the WOOP! Trampoline Land literally next-door (perfect team cool-down!).
Highlights
- 🛏️ Large inventory of modern single rooms (plus twins & triples) – ideal if you crave solitude.
- 🍳 Award-winning “Plaza Restaurant” breakfast & live-cooking dinner stations.
- 🛍️ Indoor walkway to BTC City Mall, water-park “Atlantis” and gourmet street-food court.
- 🎳 Ten-pin bowling and the region’s biggest VR & trampoline arena within 2 minutes on foot.
- 🚗 Free parking, EV chargers, self-service laundry.
Location & Transport
- 🚶♂️ Walk: 54 minutes (3.9 km) for the sporty.
- 🚍 Bus lines every 15 minutes ( bus numbers – / 07 ).
🏨 Grand Plaza Hotel Ljubljana
Exclusive Home for Judges & VIP Guests
Rising sleekly above the tree-lined Gosposvetska avenue, the brand-new Grand Plaza is Ljubljana’s only true five-star high-rise – and the official sanctuary for WRO 2025 judges and VIPs. Step inside the light-filled lobby and you’ll feel the calm efficiency that lets decision-makers recharge after long competition days.
Why we chose it for you
- 👑 Dedicated to WRO adjudicators & dignitaries – reserving every room for those who carry the heaviest event responsibilities is our way of saying “thank you.”
- 🛏️ 236 designer rooms & suites, sound-proofed, with panoramic views of the Alps or Old Town.
- 🥂 Executive Lounge on the 22nd floor – quiet workspaces by day, networking sundowners by evening.
- 🍷 À-la-carte Mediterranean restaurant “Plaza Prime” plus an all-day international buffet.
- 🏋️ 24/7 fitness with Technogym, Finnish sauna & massage studio.
- 🌐 1-Gbps Wi-Fi and abundant USB-C/USBA hubs in every desk – bring on the score sheets!
Getting to the venue
- 🚶♂️ Walk: a pleasant 10-minute (650 m) stroll straight up Dunajska Road to Gospodarsko razstavišče.
- 🚍 Best bus: every 2 minutes ( bus numbers – / 06 / 11 / 13 / 19B )