Cat Mitty

Small groups · old towns · cats on doorsteps

Slow tours for small groups, with a cat on every doorstep

We take eight people at a time into old towns and harbours, and we leave the days loose enough for a second coffee. Every trip starts and ends at our own townhouse hotel under the arcades of the market square in Litomyšl.

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Meet the hotel
Cream and rose town-house hotel facade on a cobbled street at dusk, warm lamps in the windows

Eight guests at most

Eight is the limit

A table for eight, a minibus that is never full and a guide who knows every name by lunch on the first day.

A house to come home to

The first coffee of the trip and the last one are served on the same square, at the same window.

Cats counted, never promised

We log every cat we meet. The tally is honest, so some trips come home with three and some with ninety.

Next on the ribbon

Four of our eight tours. Each one is a ribbon of five or six days, tied at both ends to the front desk in Litomyšl.

Prices on the cards are guide prices per person in Czech crowns. The manager confirms the final figure when you send a request.

All eight tours

Four places with a cat habit

Turkey, Morocco, Sicily and the Cyclades have three things in common: old harbours, steep lanes and a well-fed street cat on most corners.

Light hotel lobby with a wooden reception desk, armchairs, a chandelier and tall windows

Home base on the market square

Cat Mitty Hotel is a Renaissance townhouse of nineteen rooms on Smetanovo náměstí in Litomyšl, with an arched stone portal, a cream and rose front, attic rooms under a steep roof and a breakfast room that smells of the bakery on the corner.

The night before a tour, the group gathers in the hall under the chandelier to meet the guide. The night after, the same chairs are waiting, and so is the cat.

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Rooms and attics

A small casino on the first floor

Cat Mitty Casino is a room of the hotel itself, the old music salon with its stucco ceiling. It has six tables and a short bar and opens five evenings a week, Wednesday to Sunday.

From the front desk it is thirty-four steps across the hall, up the broad stair and along the gallery. Entry to the casino is from 18, and the staff at the doors check a document every time.

What the salon is like
galleryalcovecasino roomformer music salonbroad stairshallfront deskentrance from the square34 steps from the desk
Calm harbour with moored sailing boats and a whitewashed village at dawn

Not sure which tour fits?

Tell the desk what you like doing on a holiday, and we will tell you which ribbon suits it. A person answers within two working days.

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