The only military prison in Europe open to tourists, from which not a single prisoner was able to escape.

The Karosta prison building was built around 1900 and it served as a prison for military personnel.

The last prisoners left their inscriptions on the walls of their cells relatively recently: in 1997.

Karosta Prison offers its guests

• Visiting cells, solitary confinement and the prison museum exhibition telling the story of World War II, Kureliesi and the Soviet regime;
• Ensuring discipline for those who choose to visit with elements of a show;
• participation in a show based on real stories from the life of the Karosta military prison;
• for those looking for something more exciting, the opportunity to take on the role of a prisoner in the show “Extreme Night” and spend the night in a prison cell ;
• hearty lunches in the prison canteen with Soviet-style staff.

Karosta Prison is recognized as one of the most amazing and unusual hotels in the world.

Ghosts in Karosta Prison

From the very beginning, prison was a dark place, designed to ruin people's lives and suppress the free spirit. Various inexplicable phenomena were observed in the prison: loud footsteps, light bulbs unscrewing, locked cells opening, ghosts appearing in the corridors.

A team of professionals from Ghost Hunters International with the most modern equipment tried to find ghosts in the prison Karosta, concluding that it is one of the most haunted places in the world.