Karosta Prison

Who can you surprise by staying overnight at a hotel? Here you have a chance to spend the night in a prison which is considered to be even more impressive than the Alcatraz in the USA, to sleep on a prison bunk or an iron bed, and to have a prison meal.

The Naval Port prison or guardhouse. The building was erected about 1900 and until 1997 it has served as a place where military persons served their terms for breach of discipline. Ever since the first years of its existence it has been a place to break people’s lives and suppress their free will.

With powers changing, its prisoners changed as well. Among them there were revolutionaries, fishers and non-commissioned officers of the tsarist army, deserters from the German Wehrmacht, and enemies of the people in Stalin’s times, soldiers of both the Soviet army and the Latvian army and other rebels.
Mysterious and inexplicable things are noticed in the guard house – rumbling footsteps, self-unscrewing of electrical bulbs, unaccountable opening of closed doors of the cells … but the appearance of impossible images has come as the most unpleasant surprise to many a visitor.

Tours of the prison and the museum
Surprise tour
Show “Behind the Bars”
Extreme night
24 hours
VIP programme
North forts
For special occasions
Tours of Naval Port and Liepaja