If you like modern hotels you would call Hotel Elite 'old'. If you like historical buildings and city's (like me) you will call the hotel 'authentic'. Anyway, I liked it being in Prague. Nice bar and quite cheap restaurant belonging to / next to the hotel. I had a nice/big room, but I think i got upgraded because of my hotels.com booking :-) Note: no airco in the rooms and apparently, all hotel guests started using the Wifi in the evening :-0