Rooms and suites
Thirty rooms in green velvet and walnut, from a quiet classic room to the tower suite.
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The golden age, kept
Thirty rooms, a cocktail bar and a ballroom in a 1932 building on Laisvės alėja, restored to the evening they first opened.
Built for a new capital
In 1932 Kaunas was the capital of a young country, and it built as if it meant to stay. Saulėja opened that autumn as the city's most modern hotel: a rounded corner of cream render, a revolving door and a lift that still runs.
We restored it over four years. The terrazzo, the brass and the stair rail are the originals; the plumbing, the beds and the quiet are new.
The result is a hotel of thirty rooms that feels like 1932 and works like today.
Stay, dine, celebrate
The Sunburst Bar
Cocktails of the interwar years under the original gilt ceiling, every evening from six.
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The dining room
A short, seasonal menu of Lithuanian produce, served at linen-covered tables.
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30Rooms and suites
14House cocktails
180Guests in the ballroom
4Years of restoration
What guests say
CAClara and Tom HendricksAmsterdam
We came for one night and stayed three. The room was beautiful, but it was the bar that kept us.
RPRūta PetrauskienėVilnius
Every detail of the building has been looked after. The staff know its story and tell it well.
JAJulia and MartynasMarried at Saulėja, June
Our wedding dinner in the ballroom was the most elegant evening any of our guests can remember.
From the journal
What Kaunas drank in 1935
Five cocktails from the hotel's own order books, and how we make them now.
The sunburst under the paint
How the gilt ceiling of the bar was lost in 1950 and found again, whole, under five coats of green.
Stay with us
Book directly for the best price, a welcome cocktail and late checkout whenever the house allows.