Riga Hotels with Family Suites: Real Bedrooms for Real Families
5 family-friendly hotels with family suite in Riga . Handpicked for families who want the best.
Riga's standard hotel rooms are small. The Old Town runs on converted merchant houses and Soviet-era pre-fabs, both of which give you 18-24 square metres at most. That works for a couple. With two kids and a stroller, it stops working by day two. Five hotels in the city offer proper family suites: separate sleeping zones, two bathrooms in some cases, and enough floor space that a four-year-old can have a tantrum without taking out a lamp. They cluster on the river bank or just outside the medieval centre, all within fifteen minutes walking of the House of the Blackheads.
Riga has more character than its Baltic neighbours. The Old Town is UNESCO-listed and walkable, the Art Nouveau district north of the centre has the densest concentration of these buildings in Europe, and the Central Market sits in old Zeppelin hangars where you can graze cheap on smoked fish and rye bread. Add the river beach at Jurmala thirty minutes by train, and you have a long-weekend city that fills four days with kids without overdosing on culture. The catch is the weather: budget for grey afternoons May through September, full-on cold November to March.
🛏️Why Riga family suites matter more than in most cities
Riga family suites split into two practical types. Hotel-style suites at properties like Wellton Riverside and Grand Poet give you a one-bedroom layout with a separate living area, sofa bed for kids, and a single bathroom. These are 35-50 square metres and price out around 180-250 EUR/night for four. The Kempinski Grand Hotel goes bigger with two-bedroom suites approaching 70 square metres and two bathrooms, priced 350-500 EUR depending on season.
The second type is hotel-apartment hybrids. Wellton Riga Hotel & SPA has family rooms with kitchenettes that work for stays over four nights, when buying breakfast supplies from Rimi supermarket beats the hotel buffet at 28 EUR per adult. Most family suites in Riga include rollaway beds at no extra cost up to age 12, but always confirm bedding when you book — a sofa bed is fine for one night but not for a week.
Parent's take
We took a family suite at Wellton Riverside on our second trip after one cramped Old Town room ended a previous holiday early. The separate bedroom meant my husband and I could read past 9pm in the living area while the kids slept three metres away through a closed door. Four mornings out of five we made our own breakfast in the kitchenette using black bread and cheese from Rimi. That alone saved us about 200 EUR over the trip.
Our Top 5 Picks
Hotels in Riga with family suite, sorted by guest rating.
Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga
Old Town
Wonderful
500 reviews
Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga is a 5-star palace hotel on the edge of the old town with a full ESPA spa, kids' club with babysitting, and family suites overlooking the Vermanes Garden. Treatments include a 25-minute kids' facial.
From
€1376/night
Why families love Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga
The hotel that does luxury family travel properly. The kids' club takes children 4-12 daily until 7pm, which means we actually had a 90-minute massage uninterrupted. The spa has a kids' window 16:00-18:00 with a heated splash pool, and the family suite was big enough that the eight-year-old had her own reading nook. Vermanes Garden is across the road for after-spa runaround time.
Wonderful
500 reviews
Grand Poet Hotel and SPA by Semarah is a 5-star Art Nouveau hotel in the old town with an indoor pool, full spa centre, treatment rooms and family rooms. Ten minutes on foot from Dome Square.
From
€673/night
Why families love Grand Poet Hotel and SPA by Semarah
The indoor pool is the standout — heated, shallow at one end, and the kids could swim while we sat at the spa cafe with a book. The Art Nouveau building has wide hallways and high ceilings that felt like a museum, which the nine-year-old loved. Spa is treatment-heavy rather than sauna-heavy, so book a family massage if you have older kids. Quiet at breakfast, kids' meals available.
Wellton Riverside SPA Hotel
Riverside
Excellent
500 reviews
Wellton Riverside SPA Hotel is a 4-star riverside hotel with a 1,500 sqm spa centre, family rooms, and a dedicated kids' vitality pool. Five minutes on foot from the old town across the river.
From
€265/night
Why families love Wellton Riverside SPA Hotel
Best spa-for-the-price in Riga. The wet area is huge: lap pool, vitality pool, hot tub, two saunas, hammam, salt cave. The kids' pool is fenced and the under-7s window is 15:00-17:00 daily. Family room had a separate sleeping nook for the kids and a balcony over the Daugava. We did spa every afternoon and barely scratched the menu.
Excellent
500 reviews
Radisson Blu Latvija Conference & Spa Hotel, Riga is a 4-star hotel by the central park with a 25th-floor spa, family rooms, and city-view rooms. Five minutes on foot to the old town and the train station for Jurmala day trips.
From
€588/night
Why families love Radisson Blu Latvija Conference & Spa Hotel, Riga
The 25th-floor spa is the gimmick that's actually amazing. You sauna with a panoramic view of the spires, then come back down to a family room where the kids have already plundered the kid-friendly buffet. We loved the location for Jurmala day trips: train station is 4 minutes away, beach 30 minutes after that. Skytower restaurant has a low-key kids' menu and the elevator alone entertains four-year-olds.
Wellton Riga Hotel & SPA
Centre
Excellent
500 reviews
Wellton Riga Hotel & SPA is a 4-star hotel two blocks from the old town, with a full spa centre, indoor playground, kid-friendly buffet, and family rooms. Walking distance to most museums and the central market.
From
€425/night
Why families love Wellton Riga Hotel & SPA
The standout for families with kids 4 to 8 — there's an indoor playground in the lobby that runs to 8pm, the buffet has a separate kids' line at lower height, and the spa runs a daily 14:00-16:00 family window with games in the relaxation area. The room was a connecting double-and-twin with bunk-bed lighting that meant the eight-year-old read until late without disturbing us.
💡Tips for picking a family suite in Riga
- 1Book a suite with two bathrooms if you can stretch to it. The Kempinski and Radisson Blu Latvija both offer this, and it pays for itself the first morning when nobody is queuing for the toilet before a 9am train to Jurmala. Single-bathroom suites at the lower price points still beat two adjoining standard rooms.
- 2Choose a suite with windows on the courtyard side rather than the street, especially in summer. Riga Old Town pubs run loud until 2am on weekends, and the Wellton Riverside courtyard rooms are noticeably quieter than the riverbank-facing ones. Ask explicitly when booking.
- 3Bring your own travel cot for under-twos. Latvian hotel cots are usually wooden side-rail models that suit babies up to about 18 months, after which kids can climb out. A travel pop-up cot solves this and gets you back to a normal bedtime routine on day one.
- 4Use the train to Jurmala beach as your bad-weather backup, not your sunny-day plan. The 30-minute ride costs under 3 EUR for adults, kids ride free, and the wooden art-nouveau station buildings make a worthwhile day even when the Baltic is too cold to swim. Pine forests offer shade if it gets warm.
- 5Riga family suites with kitchenettes pay off from night four onwards. Below that, you eat the kitchen tax in unused space. Above it, you save 30-50 EUR per day on supermarket breakfasts and a single home-cooked dinner, which adds up over a week's stay quickly.
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