Ask your future employer if he can provide you with accommodation. Some universities and research institutes have their own accommodation facilities for their employees.

If your future employer cannot provide you with accommodation, ask him/her for other possibilities or recommendations.

 

You can find accommodation yourself, too – properties for rent are advertised in specialised advertising publications, daily newspapers, the regional press and on the internet.You can rent a flat directly from an owner or through a real estate agency.

 

When renting a flat, enquire whether the price covers just the rent or if it also includes utility costs (electricity, gas, heating, water, phone bills, etc.). Rents are normally paid monthly and deposits of a few month´s rent are common. It is, of course, necessary to sign a lease.

 

Rental prices depend on several factors:

·          City/ town (in the capital city and university towns rents are usually higher)

·          Locality within a city/town (centre/outskirts)

·          Type of flat/house (tower block, brick house, new building, flat/house that has or has not been renovated, etc.)

·          Furnishings

·          Size of flat (number of bedrooms, surface area etc.)

 

 

Useful links

Long-term accommodation

·          www.reality.sk –  a nationwide search database (also in English), regularly updated rental offers by more than 400 real estate agencies, a list of real estate agencies with contact phone numbers, websites and E-mails

·          www.realityserver.sk – search database (in Slovak only)

·          www.narks-real.sk, www.narks-real.sk/default_en.htm  - a website of the National Association of Real Estate Offices of Slovakia including contact phone numbers, websites and E-mails of individual real estate agencies

·          www.greenpages.sk – a webportal “Green Pages“ providing information and contact phone numbers, websites and E-mails of several firms and organisations in Slovakia, including  sections like: Real estate agencies (Realitné kancelárie); Hotels in Bratislava (Hotely v Bratislave); Hotels outside Bratislava (Hotely mimo Bratislavy)

·          www.slovakspectator.sk – see the advertising part of the newpaper also providing information in English on renting property.

 

Short-term accommodation

·          www.ubytujsa.sk – nationwide search database providing information on hotels, boarding houses and other accommodation facilities (also private) across Slovakia. Many of them offer a discount if booked online.

·          www.greenpages.sk  – see the following sections: Hotels in Bratislava  (Hotely v Bratislave) and Hotels outside Bratislava (Hotely mimo Bratislavy)

·          www.cestovky-info.sk  - the International Education Society – database of schools, travel agencies and accommodation facilities in the Slovak Republic

·          www.slovakia-accommodation.net (www.zoznamubytovania.sk) – accomodationn search in Slovakia for hotels, cottages, family pensions, spas with on-line booking

·          www.iubytovanie.sk – accomodation offers in Slovakia

·          www.limba.sk - accomodationn search in Slovakia for hotels, cottages, family pensions, spas with on-line booking

·          www.skonline.sk  - a webportal about Slovakia, see the section „Accommodation“ (ubytovanie)

·          www.travelguide.sk – Travel guide to Slovakia with accomodation information included with various serching options and on-line booking

·          www.mesto.travelguide.sk – broad scale information on selected towns with the possibility of on-line booking of accomodation (in Slovak only)

·          www.datatravel.sk - database of accommodations in the Slovak Republic

·          www.hotels-slovakia.com – accomodation in selected towns and areas of Slovakia, the databese includes hotels, hostels, bed & breakfasts, lodges, botels, cottages, and campsites