Twenty-three rooms across three 1362 Hanseatic merchant houses on the famous Pikk Street, joined and converted in 2003, the Baltics' only Design Hotels member, with original limestone walls, hidden frescoes, and Victorian roll-top baths.
"Three 1362 merchant houses stitched together by Estonian designers, every room a different shape, and a cellar bar holding the largest cognac list in the Baltics. The most personally specific room you can book in Tallinn."
The Three Sisters Hotel occupies a famous trio of Hanseatic merchant houses, known across the Baltic since the 14th century as the Kolm Õde, the "Three Sisters", at the northern end of Pikk Street, where the medieval lane reaches the Great Coast Gate (Suur Rannavärav). The three buildings were constructed in 1362 by three German merchant brothers for their three daughters, each house slightly different in width and roof line. They passed through Hanseatic, Swedish, and Russian merchant hands, were nationalised under the Soviet occupation, and were finally returned, restored, and joined into a single hotel by Estonian developer Hillar Teder in 2003.
There are twenty-three rooms and suites, each individually shaped by the medieval architecture of the building it occupies, no two rooms in the property are the same plan. Categories run from compact Superior rooms in the upper-floor garrets through Deluxe and Junior Suites to Suites and a Loft. Each room mixes original 14th-century limestone walls and timber beams with restrained contemporary furniture; original fragments of Hanseatic frescoes have been uncovered in several rooms and preserved as wall features. The defining design choice is the bath, every room has either a contemporary oval bathtub or a Victorian-era roll-top bath as the centrepiece of the bathroom. The Loft, occupying the entire roof beam structure of the original main house, is the headline booking.
Common spaces have a particular character. The Bordoo Restaurant, on the ground floor of the original main house, serves a Nordic-Estonian menu and entered the Michelin Guide selection. The Hidden Bar in the deep cellars holds what the property states is the largest single-bar cognac selection in the Baltics, several hundred references, and operates as the property's evening room. A small wellness floor runs a sauna and a Turkish-style steam room. Public spaces are limestone, oak, and warm low light: the Design Hotels DNA is more legible here than at any other property in Estonia.
The position is the upper Old Town. Pikk 71 sits at the gate end of Pikk Street, the historic merchants' lane, fifty metres from the Great Coast Gate, the Fat Margaret tower (now the Estonian Maritime Museum), and the cruise terminal three minutes' walk downhill. Town Hall Square is five minutes south down Pikk; St. Olaf's Church (briefly the world's tallest building, in 1549) is two minutes; Tallinn airport is fifteen minutes by taxi. The Three Sisters is the Tallinn hotel that design-magazine travellers actually book, a property that rewards a four-night stay where Schlössle rewards a two-night one.
For honeymooners who care about the design pedigree of where they sleep, The Three Sisters is the Tallinn answer. The Loft, occupying the original 1362 roof timbers, with a freestanding roll-top bath under a dormer window, is the booking that justifies the trip. The Hidden Bar in the cellar is the evening room; Bordoo handles dinner. The Design Hotels membership is the signal.
For an anniversary trip in Tallinn that mixes the medieval Old Town with serious dining, the Three Sisters Junior Suite is the right room and Bordoo at dinner, plus a cognac flight in the Hidden Bar afterwards, is the night. A Suite for a milestone anniversary; the Loft for the significant one.
For a Tallinn proposal, the Loft is the room. Walk to the top of the city walls at the Patkuli viewing platform at sunset for the moment, return via St. Olaf's tower, propose at the bath in the medieval roof beams, dinner at Bordoo afterwards. The concierge handles the choreography quietly.
Pikk 71 / Tolli 2
10133 Tallinn
Estonia
Great Coast Gate 1 min walk · St. Olaf's Church 2 min · Town Hall Square 5 min · Cruise terminal 3 min walk · Helsinki ferry 5 min taxi · Tallinn airport 15 min
23 individually designed rooms
Superior from EUR 280/night
Deluxe from EUR 340/night
Junior Suite from EUR 460/night
Suite from EUR 640/night
Loft from EUR 950/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
1362 buildings · Restored 2003
Design Hotels member · Michelin Guide
Bordoo Restaurant (Michelin Guide)
The Hidden Bar (largest Baltic cognac list)
Wellness floor with sauna & steam
Victorian roll-top baths in rooms
Free WiFi · Original 14th-c. fresco fragments
From EUR 280/night. The Loft and named suites sell out two to three months ahead for summer weekends and the Christmas market season; Junior Suites generally bookable three to four weeks out.
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