Penzion Javorina

Great rooms, great staff who went out of their comfort zone just to get us what we want. Private sauna thumbs up! This guesthouse is a must go. Tidy rooms with good matraces, beautiful location.

We stayed in the pension for couple of nights. The experience was really pleasant and relaxing. The owner and the stuff are really nice and helpful. Our room (n. 5) was clean and nice with fridge, TV and new bathroom (no balcony though). The best part of our stay was the food. It is just delicious!!! If you are looking for proper Slovak experience, this is it. Don't forget to taste garlic soup and bryndzové halušky :) In our humble opinion, it's the best place to eat in whole Čičmany (we have tried also other pension).||We'd gladly come back again next year!

We have visited our family in the small village Cicmany near to Ilava city (or Trencin - approx. 55km) in the middle of July 2014. We have chosen Penzion Javorina because we saw this place many times while visiting our family. And it was very good choice! Very nice and cosy accomodation with great balcony with the view to the small yard and hills above the village. The staff was so friendly, but it is common on Slovakia I guess :-) People there are very nice. Breakfast was very rich with local specialities. Also the menu of the restaurant was very special and delicious with big portions. ||The village itself - Cicmany is small, but very nice with restaurants and beautiful landscape. With Strážov mountain or near Javorina hill, where you can ski during the winter time. Or you can go to swim to the natural lake - Nitrainské Rudno. I can recommend very nice and majestic mountain - Klak, you can see it from Javorina hill. Don´t forget to visit also the museum of national tradition and culture in Cicmany and buy delicious sheep cheese in Cicmany or near village Zliechov, directly to the shepherd chalet.

Delicious Slovakian traditional food ! You won’t eat the whole dish (so much food), fast and friendly service dressed in folklore dresses. They have home made farm products which are outstanding quality-> you will taste the difference :) definitely coming here again. ( if you’re coming please check the opening hours, sometimes closed randomly due to technical reasons)

Oh dear, where do i start? Ok. I will start with positives from family perspective... Charming village with a lot of traditions and character. Everything is overpriced! We stayed in a room suitable for 8 people. Thank god there was a back room with a door as we wouldn't be sleeping at all. The front room had two beds plus a pull up but every single tiny noise someone made was like we were sleeping outside. There was a family on our floor with a dog, yes dog, that was barking and kids up and screaming until after midnight. At €110 a night you'd expect better conditions and service. The highlight was our dinner the evening we arrived. The owner with some other guy talking rather loudly and literally swearing his head off. Luckily my son do not understand Slovak but if he did I'd say something. This is the lowest consideration to the paying guests I've ever seen, anywhere. Just shocking behaviour from manager. The food was nice by the way. Further on, if you are expecting any lay in in the morning don't get your hopes up. In a room for €110 a night you get short sheets that do not stretch all the way so you end up sleeping on a matrace that 100s people slept on before you, there are no curtains on the windows so you end up waking up at 5am in the morning in the summer. You want to have a shower in the bath? Forget it, you won't be able to stand up. Oh and try to work out the parking and you'd get a nobel prize in mathematics or risk a fine. I'm a native speaker and i couldn't do it. Btw if you have a foreign SIM card your sms parking will not work and there are no parking meters to buy tickets from so probably expect a fine by the morning. The village is charming and full of history. We stopped in the nearby Salaš (a place to have traditional Slovak meals but not limited to). It's one of those places you should visit but i wouldn't recommend Javorinka penzión. That place has some serious issues to fix. Oh and one good thing I forgot to mention was that the place would give you mountain bikes so that's a nice touch but if rather have a decent room and service than free bikes.

Kitchen superb, but the service was catastrophic...blondy lady serving outside should find another job or to be fired.

Restaurant made us very happy! Service is fast and nice and the prices are more than reasonable. We spent time on the terrace and it was the best decision. Their cheese garlic soup is one of the best things you can have after a tour around the village 🤍 Pate from the hunted animals was good but not mindblowing tbh. They do have a draft ERB, which is a good option. Can pay with cards as well.

Great place for a short family stay. Gulasch from deer and many other delicious traditional Slovak meals. You may even purchase home made deer sausages or apricot jam.|Owner is very service minded and helpful, rooms are clean and simple.