House with History

You could easily overlook our guesthouse without notice. It’s an unassuming industrial-style building with a simple grey facade and brown tiles along the bottom edge to protect against snow. A careful observer might rightfully say that the house is too grey and not particularly attractive. And it stands at a crossroads in the middle of the village. This is where you’re supposed to spend your holiday? Here too, the well-known rule applies – the best is hidden inside…

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The house is divided into two parts. The older section from the second half of the 19th century contains apartments, a grocery store, and a pub – there used to be a theater here too. This part belongs to a different owner. Our guesthouse is in the newer extension. This part of the house was built by Johann Etrich, the owner of the local textile factory, at the end of the 19th century. In the post-war period, the building served various purposes for the residents of Mladé Buky. It housed a cultural hall with a cinema, a medical center with a general practitioner, pediatrician, and dentist, a tobacco shop, a Pioneer Club, and a darkroom.

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Our family has been taking care of the house since 1991. Initially, Pavlína’s parents, Jiří and Pavla Kubečkovi, ran the pub and disco. The then-president Václav Havel was a guest at the pub several times, coming over the hill from his cottage in Hrádeček for a beer. In 2011, the first floor underwent extensive reconstruction, creating the apartments of Penzion U Kubečků.

In 2018, Pavlína took over the guesthouse and decided to combine accommodation with Tibetan medicine. Now, step by step, we’re completing and improving many things. In 2023, we replaced the windows, and 2024 marked a significant event. We opened the Tibetan spa and changed the name to Family Guesthouse and Tibetan Spa Nima Dawa.

Nima Dawa n Tibetan symbolizes theunion of Sun (Nima) and Moon (Dawa) as feminine and masculine principles, wisdom and activity, right and left sides. The proper combination of these two aspects creates perfect, transpersonal harmony. We wish for this harmony to transfer to our guests, patients, and friends through both the guesthouse and Tibetan spa.

Inside the guesthouse, you won’t find luxury, but simple and practical furnishings. Most importantly, you’ll find a relaxing environment. People feel good here and sleep well, though they don’t know why. Is it the massive walls and tall windows? Or the good placement of the house in relation to the surrounding landscape? Or something else? Whatever the reason, over its hundred years of existence, the house has provided shelter or entertainment to tens of thousands of people, and we are honored to continue this tradition. Without fully realizing it at first, we sense that there is something like a spirit of place. The house continues to serve the same purposes as in the past – accommodation, health care, and bringing people together.