What "Old Oak"? "New Oak" in Truskavets!

After a 12 month renovation “Old Oak” will re-open its doors Summer 2009. “Old Oak”, built in 1985, prides itself on having an incomparable location on the outskirts of Truskavets, with superb forest views. This Truskavets institution will have 43 bedrooms, including studios and suites.

By preserving the hotel in its most original state, the design of “Old Oak” is by vigilance – a rigorous and disciplined quest to create the kind of place that will attract people accustomed to a certain quality of life. The conventional notion of a hotel room has been abandoned. Its today’s world, in every possible detail, the interior expresses a distinctive “avant garde” signature

The hotel comprises of a restaurant with split level dining overlooking the garden. For winter days there is a cozy space arranged around a monumental fantasy of a fire place. The restaurant will serve a surprisingly affordable contemporary cuisine that includes updated, more adventurous versions of European classics and local Carpathian specials, such as………..Three multifunctional conference rooms, with state of the art technology including video conference facilities.

Hotel guests have the additional facility of the hotel’s Spa and Fitness, which includes a superb 6 x 12 meter swimming pool, sauna, steam room, medical and beauty treatment rooms, where guests can be pampered with a variety of well-being and beauty treatments. A gym equipped with the most up to date fitness machines. We create an exclusive environment for you to relax, reflect, rejuvenate and re-energize.

“Old Oak” announced the appointment of Dutch national, Robert van de Bilt as managing director of”Old Oak” Truskavets. As managing director, Robert is responsible for directing the overall management and operation of “Old Oak”. He has held a number of key managerial positions within international chains in London & Amsterdam and has been responsible for 4 different hotel openings in Moscow, Odessa and Truskavets.

“The secret”, van de Bilt will confide, is to combine low-key guests with anything but low-key service. The guests are encouraged to be laid back…………...the staff is not. It might sound simple enough, but van de Bilt himself will readily concede that this is not an easy combination to realize. Comfort, in his eyes, is only achieved by getting all details right, small as well as big. Elegant comfort, the kind that appears effortless, is always his aim. It is not about dazzling them with glitz and glamour but about conjuring up an atmosphere of graceful sophistication. Van de Bilt believes ‘are more important than any design scheme’. A hotel is like a play, he will tell you:” if the cast is good, the play is good”, subsequently, immaculate level of service and impressive standard of food.