Five-star One MICHELIN Key Facing Bastejkalns park, Riga
Grand Poet Hotel and SPA by Semarah
A nineteenth-century building on Raiņa bulvāris, opposite the canal park of Bastejkalns, with 168 rooms, a spa with an indoor pool and walls hung with work by students from the art academy nearby.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.
- MICHELIN
- One Key
- Rooms
- 168
- Opened
- January 2018
- From the airport
- About 20 to 25 minutes from RIX, our estimate
The hotel
A listed building, redrawn in colour.
Grand Poet opened on 12 January 2018 in a nineteenth-century building on Raiņa bulvāris, the boulevard named after the poet Jānis Rainis. The building is a protected monument, and the renovation kept its five-storey wooden staircase and its tiled stoves. Semarah, the Latvian group behind it, called it the first five-star design hotel in the country. It has 168 rooms and suites.
The Swedish studio Stylt Trampoli did the interiors, which the MICHELIN Guide reads as a postmodern take on the Belle Époque: graphic murals, strong colour and contrast. The hotel shows and buys work by students of the Art Academy of Latvia nearby. Bastejkalns park and its canal lie across the road, and the Freedom Monument is a few minutes on foot.
- Hedonic Spa An indoor pool, saunas, steam rooms, a Turkish bath and a jacuzzi. Access comes with every room.
- Art from next door Paintings and works by young artists from the Art Academy of Latvia, shown and collected by the hotel.
- On the park Rooms on the front look over Bastejkalns, the green canal park between the old town and the boulevards.
Rooms & suites
Rooms over the park, suites with a fireplace.
Breakfast and the spa are included with every room. Park-view categories face Bastejkalns.
- Rooms Park View Premium Room One or two beds, with bath and shower, looking over the park.
- Suites Grand Suite 66 square metres, with a living room around a decorative fireplace, a separate study and a bathtub by the window. Views over the park.
- Longer stays Courtyard Suite with Kitchenette A suite on the courtyard side, with its own kitchenette.
Dining
One restaurant, by name and by nature.
As listed by the MICHELIN Guide. Shown for information.
- Snob Creative, modern The hotel restaurant, open from breakfast
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 2 pm, check-out by noon.
- Children Welcome. Under-twos stay free in a cot, under-sixes free in an existing or extra bed.
- Pets Accepted on request, with a charge.
Getting there
Flying to Riga.
Riga International Airport is nine kilometres west of the centre, about twenty to twenty-five minutes by car to Raiņa bulvāris, our estimate. Scheduled flights and private jets both use it, with business aviation handled at its own terminal.
- Stockholm 55 min
- Berlin 1 h 25
- Paris 2 h 35
- London 2 h 35
- Dubai 6 h 00
Questions
What guests ask first.
- How many MICHELIN Keys does Grand Poet Hotel have?
- One. It was among the first Baltic hotels to receive a Key, in October 2025.
- Does Grand Poet Hotel have a pool?
- Yes. The Hedonic Spa has an indoor pool, saunas, steam rooms and a jacuzzi, and access is included with every room.
- Is Grand Poet Hotel close to the old town?
- Yes. It faces Bastejkalns park, on the edge of the old town, and the Freedom Monument is a few minutes' walk away.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Riga?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Riga, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Riga
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga A hundred and forty-one rooms and suites near the Old Town, a spa, and the Stage22 restaurant on the roof.
- Grand Palace Hotel Fifty-six rooms in a bank building of 1877, with breakfast in the Orangerie Hall.
- A22 Hotel Twenty rooms in the former American Embassy of the 1930s, one MICHELIN Key and the starred JOHN Chef's Hall.
- Dome Hotel & Spa Fifteen rooms in a seventeenth-century house, with a Finnish sauna, one Key and a roof terrace facing the cathedral.
Staying at Grand Poet Hotel and SPA by Semarah?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Riga, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.