An experience
for all the senses
Bike tourist
We offer guests the option of renting a bicycle. The price is 20€ per day.
We have created a BIC (bicycle information center) for cycle tourists traveling on their bicycles.
In ours, as we cyclists call it bicycle room, in addition to a safe place to leave your bikes, you can also find tools for bike repairs and a small kitchen where you can prepare food for the rest of your journey.
Honesty bar
Honesty bar - area intended only for Maksimilian's guests. As we are a small family business, we want to support small local producers in our work, and that is why here you can try wines from local wineries, craft beers and homemade brandy. This is a small bar without waiters, based on honesty. Guests are left to serve themselves and report their own consumption.
By agreement, we organize tastings of products from the surrounding rural households (kulen, sausages, bacon, prosciutto, various cheeses, seasonal fruits and vegetables). You can use the space as a living room - for hanging out, reading, holding meetings.
The story of a ballerina
This is a story that has remained untold for years. Long for social media, it doesn't fit the marketing gurus' advice on text length. It may not be the best written, but it must be recorded.
Ivan Diklić, our first employee, tried very hard in his late twenties to live the unfulfilled 90s. Of all the bad qualities, more for himself than for others, he has one wonderful one. Women feel special and understood around him (and I'm not saying this in any vulgar way).
Guests started coming to us from all over the world. Ivan liked to take them around Osijek. They stab tringelt, he has dates... Apparently he led them very well because a year later he was pulled to work as a guide for an Australian agency. He leaves, a few years pass and there he is... the season is over, late in the afternoon, an almost serious man opens the door.
He enters with a package in his hand and says: I brought a present. I'm looking forward to him but also to the gift, I grab to open it when he starts making tea with calm, almost oriental movements and says: no, you have to hear the story first.
Elem, as a guide in Europe, was given a tour through Greece that summer. Three tourists - one couple who didn't really need company and a lady from Hong Kong. The two of them would spend most of the day together, recounting their experiences, where they worked, who they were with, and in 3-4 days they learned a lot about each other. Last night they sat down in a restaurant and she takes out a package, puts it in front of him and says: take this with you, but before you open it you have to hear the story.
A woman in her 50s, in the real estate business, this is her first vacation after 30 years. She is alone, without a husband, children, her work is everything.
I nervously feel and turn the package trying to figure out what's inside while Ivan is still calmly stirring the green tea at 70C. Be patient, he says (lightly tapping his dark circles with tea bags). I listened to this for a couple of hours between bites of some sea fish with the most bones ever, you can too for a couple of minutes.
She tells him: I was walking around Athens, exploring and one day I saw a sculptor's studio. The sculptor is working inside, I stand enchanted in front of the ballerina in the window. Longing, beauty, freedom, elegance, grace, everything was in her. I went further.
The next day I came again, I stood in thought and still mesmerized by the scene. Do I want to buy it, I won't, I will, I won't anyway, I'll pass.
(I listen and think: No wonder. If art is food for the soul, a soul that has been starving for decades needs a long time to accept food)
And she continues: on the third day I decided. I finally enter the studio, buy a ballerina, go overjoyed to my hotel room and put it in front of me in case she enjoys it.
And then a wave of reality hit me. Sitting alone in the hotel room, I began to think... And where will I go with her? I'm moving from one house to another house to sell, I go from hotel to hotel, where would I even keep it? - I have houses but I don't have a home. You know, Ivan, that Maksimilian you told me about, seems like a place I might like. Take the ballerina there. To have something of my own waiting for me one day when I come. Mr. Xiu is still waiting for you.
You need a guide?
Would you like a local guide to take you around and show you what only the locals know?
Are you there for a day or two? Do you want to visit the surrounding wine cellars, Kopački rit, Vukovar, Ilok... you don't have a car, or you do but it doesn't go with the wine tasting of local winemakers?
It's not a problem, tell us your affinities and we will put together a tour for you, keeping your finances in mind.
Alan Vlahov - sculptor, restorer, professor
He came to us in 2009 as the main restorer of the Holy Trinity monument in the Osijek Fortress. The renovation took months, and Alan began to live in this space as if he had lived in it for years.
When we know that this was the house of J. Gerupp - sculptor, author of the votive monument of the Holy Trinity (Plague Monument) from 1777, the same monument that Alan came to restore more than 200 years later, everything fell into place. We understood that artists should feel in the space. Even when there are a couple of centuries between them.
Alan is the one whose name in our phone book says just that. Name. Alan.
No last name, no description, nickname... He is Alan to us, we are his refuge.
It was with this feeling that some of the art pieces that adorn the interior and exterior spaces today were created.
Art
Life pulsates in every corner of Maksimilian. In addition to the rich history of the building, our walls are decorated with numerous works of art. Numerous artists, attracted by the charm of the Fortress and the unique atmosphere of our hotel, decorated our spaces with their creations. It is this synergy of history, art and comfort that makes a stay in Maksimilian an unforgettable experience, far from the usual hotel offers.
For breakfast, we offer a variety of sweet and savory spreads, sausages, salami, cheeses, yogurt, juice, milk, eggs, coffee (instant, espresso, turkish)...
For those who like a light breakfast, there are various cereals and seasonal fruits and vegetables. For others, for whom breakfast is the most important meal of the day, we recommend eggs baked with ham and cheese (omelets, scrambled eggs) , which we bake individually for each guest.
Whatever you choose, the breakfast is served so that you can take as much of everything as you want.
We are happy to accommodate guests with specific dietary habits (vegan, gluten free, lactose intolerant, halal...). Please let us know in advance if you have specific requests.