1932
Saulėja opens
The most modern hotel in the temporary capital, with a lift and a telephone in every room.
Our story
A hotel built for the temporary capital in 1932, closed for half a century and opened again, by one family, in 2023.
- Part of Modernist Kaunas, on the UNESCO list
- Four years of careful restoration
- Owned and run by the Jankauskas family
Ninety years
1936
The bar at its height
Diplomats, actors and writers meet under the gilt sunburst after the theatre.
1950
Closed
The building becomes offices. The ballroom is divided and the bar painted green.
2019
Restoration begins
Under five coats of paint, the sunburst is found again, whole.
2023
Open once more
Thirty rooms, the bar, the dining room and the ballroom, on the same autumn evening.
Who will look after you
Agnė Jankauskienė
Owner and manager
Grew up two streets away and spent four years bringing the house back.
Lukas Vaitkus
Head bartender
Rebuilt the 1930s list from the hotel's own order books.
Ieva Kazlauskaitė
Chef
Cooks the farms around Kaunas, as the grand kitchens did, only lighter.
Vytautas Petraitis
Concierge and events
Knows every building in the city and every wedding we have held.
Up on the roof
The roof terrace was the hotel's summer secret in the 1930s, and it is again. From May to September the bar moves upstairs at sunset, with the old town and the spires of the cathedral in front of you.
It is open to hotel guests every evening and to everyone else from Thursday to Saturday.
Come and see the house
The concierge gives a short tour of the building every Saturday at eleven. It is free, and coffee is on us.