Radovan Karadzic can expect an ensuite cell, home-cooked Balkan cuisine and a convivial atmosphere where former enemies play table football if he is transferred to the detention unit of the Hague Tribunal.
Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-95 Bosnia war, and until his arrest in Serbia one of the world's most wanted men, faces imminent extradition to The Hague after 11 years on the run.
His lawyers have appealed against extradition, but he is expected to stand trial on charges of genocide for the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica and for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo.
Karadzic would join 37 other suspects held by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and housed in a purpose-built detention unit within a Dutch prison on the blustery North Sea coast, close to the resort of Scheveningen.
Four deaths at the tribunal, including that of former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic in 2006, shocked and distressed the detainees, but it is also a place where former inmates say ethnic differences are forgotten and there is mutual support.
"You are not a Serb, Bosnian or Croat anymore - you are just a detainee," a former court employee said.
Before his capture Karadzic, disguised as a new-age doctor, occupied a high-rise, concrete tower block in the drab suburb of New Belgrade and frequented a Serb hardliners bar.
His new home will be a 15 square metre cell identical to the one in which Milosevic spent the last five years of his life listening to Frank Sinatra music and planning his defence.
The court says the cells exceed international standards for space, lighting and facilities. They resemble college dormitory rooms with a toilet, washbasin, shelves, television and table. Some detainees have spread quilts over their beds.
The tribunal stresses its detention unit is a remand centre, not a prison. If inmates are awaiting trial they must be treated as innocent.
Released inmates say the ethnic rivalries that drove them to fratricide in the bloody wars that accompanied the break-up of Yugoslavia have faded within the walls of the prison.
Now the detainees, who in 2006 had an average age of around 52, enjoy their common language, cook Balkan food together in the corridor kitchens, watch television and play board games.
Most are Serbs but there are also Croats and Muslims.
They can attend religious services together, take English lessons and pursue arts and crafts. But the Internet is not allowed and cells are locked in the early evening.
Detainees take an hour's fresh air in the exercise yard but there is no mingling with Dutch prisoners. The more sporting can play volleyball, football or tennis, while the more elderly favour darts and table tennis.
Former Bosnian Muslim general Naser Oric, who was released this month, said in a media interview the atmosphere in the detention unit was cordial, with no hostility between inmates.
"We invited each other," he said. "We Muslims from Bosnia and Kosovo celebrated our religious holidays with the Serbs and Croats, the Croats invited Serbs, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians for Catholic holidays and the Serbs invited everyone for Serb Christmas."
Serb nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj and Bosnian Croat paramilitary leader Mladen Naletilic were the unit's biggest jokers, Mr Oric said.
But some detainees have suffered major depression, and the four deaths - two of them suicides - profoundly affected the mood.
The unit came under intense scrutiny after the ICTY said security breaches had allowed witnesses to smuggle in non-prescribed drugs to Milosevic.
Reuters