A grand hotel is a large and luxurious

hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a ref ...

, especially one housed in a building with traditional architectural style. It began to flourish in the 1800s in Europe and North America. Grand Hotel may refer to:

Hotels

Africa

Grande Hotel Beira The Grande Hotel Beira was a luxury hotel in Beira, Mozambique, Beira, Mozambique. It was opened in 1954 and operated until 1974, when it was closed due to lack of guests. The building was used as a military base during the Mozambican Civil War. ...

, a former luxury hotel in Beira, Mozambique

Asia

* Grand Hotel d'Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia * Grand Hôtel de Pékin, one block of the

Beijing Hotel The Beijing Hotel () is a five-star state-owned hotel complex in the Dongcheng District of Beijing, China. It is located at the southern end of Wangfujing Street, at the corner with East Chang'an Avenue, 1.5 km from Beijing railway station ...

, Beijing, China *

Grand Hotel (Kolkata) The Grand Hotel, now known as the Oberoi Grand, is situated in the heart of Kolkata on Chowringhee Road. It is an elegant building of British era and is a famous building in Kolkata. The hotel is owned by Oberoi chain of hotels. History The ...

, Kolkata, India *

Dariush Grand Hotel The Dariush Grand Hotel ( fa, هتل بزرگ داریوش) is a 185-room, €185 million, five-star hotel located on the eastern part of Kish Island in the Persian Gulf. It is named after Darius I, son in law of Cyrus the Great of Iran (Persia). ...

, Kish Island, Iran *

Grand Hotel, Qazvin The Grand Hotel, Qazvin ( fa, گراند هتل قزوین) was a hotel built in 1922 in Qazvin, Iran constructed in the Pahlavi era under the governorship of Sa'd as-Saltaneh. It was built in the western wing of Chehel Sotun Palace, by the well- ...

, Iran * Sapporo Grand Hotel, Sapporo, Japan *

Grand Hotel Kathmandu Grand Hotel Kathmandu is a hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपा ...

, Kathmandu, Nepal *

Grand Hotel (Nuwara Eliya) The Grand Hotel is a four-star boutique hotel in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, that was built in the style of an Elizabethan era, Elizabethan-era manor house. The hotel has 154 rooms, including three presidential suites, four junior suites, including ...

, Sri Lanka *

Grand Hotel (Taipei) The Grand Hotel () is a landmark located at Yuanshan (圓山) in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. The hotel was established in May 1952 and the main building was completed on October 10, 1973. It is owned by the Duen-Mou Foundation of Taiw ...

, Taiwan *

Kaohsiung Grand Hotel The Kaohsiung Grand Hotel () is a hotel located in Niaosong District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The hotel is located next to the Chengcing Lake. The Grand Hotel is a sister hotel of the main Grand Hotel in Taipei City, the Taipei Grand Hotel. History ...

, Kaohsiung, Taiwan * Grand Métropole Hôtel, the original name of the

Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is a five-star historic luxury hotel, opened in 1901 as Grand Métropole Hotel in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It is today one of the most important buildings of Vietnam in French colonial style. The hotel today h ...

, Vietnam

Australasia

Grand Hotel, Childers Grand Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 106-110 Churchill Street, Childers, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Anton Hettrich built from 1899 to 1900. It is also known as Childers Hotel. It was added to the Queenslan ...

, Queensland, Australia *

Grand Hotel, Mount Morgan Grand Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 39 Central Street, Mount Morgan, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History The Grand Hotel is a two-stor ...

, Queensland, Australia *

Hotel Windsor (Melbourne) The Hotel Windsor is a luxury hotel in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Opened in 1884, the Windsor is notable for being Melbourne's only surviving purpose-built "grand" Victorian era hotel. The Windsor is situated on Bour ...

, Victoria, Australia; originally known as The Grand Hotel * Grand Hotel (Auckland), New Zealand

Europe

Grand Hotel Wien The Grand Hotel Wien is a five-star luxury hotel in Vienna, Austria. It is located on the Ringstraße at Kärntner Ring 9. History The hotel has a long history and tradition. The architect was Carl Tietz, and it was opened as the first Viennese l ...

, Vienna, Austria *

Grand Hotel Sofia Grand Hotel Sofia is a five-star hotel in the center of Sofia, Bulgaria, located on Gen. Joseph C. Street in Sredets district. It is located near the Bulgarian National Theatre and the City Art Gallery, in walking distance from Bulgaria Concert ...

, Bulgaria *

Grandhotel Pupp The Grandhotel Pupp () is a 228-room luxury hotel located in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic. The hotel hosts the annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The hotel began as the ''Saxony Hall'', built in 1701 by Burgomaster Deim ...

, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic *

Grand Hotel, Birmingham The Grand Hotel is a Grade II* listed Victorian five star hotel in the city centre of Birmingham, England. The hotel occupies the greater part of a block bounded by Colmore Row, Church Street, Barwick Street and Livery Street and overlooks ...

, England *

Grand Brighton Hotel The Grand Brighton Hotel is a historic Victorian sea front hotel in Brighton on the south coast of England. Designed by John Whichcord Jr. and built in 1864, it was intended for members of the upper classes visiting the city, and remains one o ...

, England *

Grand Hotel (Leicester) The Grand Hotel is a Grade II listed large hotel on Granby Street in the City centre of Leicester, England. It is now known as the Mercure Leicester City Hotel. It was designed by Cecil Ogden and built between 1897-98 by Amos Hall. The wedding ...

, England *

Grand Hotel (Scarborough) The Grand Hotel is a large hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, overlooking the town's South Bay. It is a Grade II* listed building and owned by Britannia Hotels. At the time of its grand opening in 1867, it was the largest hotel and ...

, England *

Grand Hotel (Torquay) The Grand Hotel is a hotel in Torquay, Devon. The Restaurant ''1881'' holds an AA_plc#Restaurants, AA Rosette for fine dining. The hotel has 132 bedrooms and 4 floors. The Grand Hotel first opened in Torquay in 1881, in response to the Great W ...

, England *

Grand Hotel and Spa (York) The Grand, formerly the Grand Hotel and Spa, is a Grade II* listed hotel in York, England, the city's only 5-star hotel. Opened in May 2010 and renovated and extended in 2017–18, it is an Edwardian building dating to 1906, originally the headq ...

, England *

Grand Hotel Kämp Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor * Grand Mixer DXT, American turntablist * Grand Puba (born 1966), American rapper Places * Grand, Oklahoma * Grand, Vosges, village and commun ...

, Helsinki, Finland *

InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel The InterContinental Paris le Grand is a historic luxury hotel in Paris, France, which opened in 1862. History Le Grand Hôtel was built by the wealthy brothers Isaac & Émile Pereire and designed by Alfred Armand, who had previously designed ...

, Paris, France *

Grand Hotel Esplanade Hotel Esplanade was a luxury hotel with 400 rooms, which once stood on Berlin's busy transport and nightlife hub Potsdamer Platz. During its colorful and turbulent history it went from being one of the German capital's most luxurious and celebrat ...

, Berlin, Germany *

Grand Hotel Villa d'Este The Villa d'Este, originally Villa del Garovo, is a Renaissance patrician residence in Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. Both the villa and the park which surrounds it have undergone significant changes since their sixteent ...

, Cernobbio, Italy *

The Grand Hotel Rimini The Grand Hotel Rimini is a five star-hotel located in Rimini, Italy. It is known for its elegance, classic style, and association with the famous Italian filmmaker, Federico Fellini. It is the only five-star hotel in the city, as well as the onl ...

, Italy *

Grand Hotel des Bains The Grand Hotel des Bains is a former luxury hotel on the Lido of Venice in northern Italy. Built in 1900 to attract wealthy tourists, it is remembered amongst other things for Thomas Mann's stay there in 1911, which inspired his novella ''Death ...

, Venice, Italy *

Grand Hotel Prishtina The Grand Hotel Prishtina is a hotel situated in the Mother Theresa Boulevard in downtown Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Prior to the Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted un ...

, Kosovo * Grand Hotel (Valletta), Malta *

Grand Hotel (Oslo) Grand Hotel is a hotel in Oslo, Norway. The hotel is best known as the annual venue of the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Grand Hotel is situated in a very central location on the main thoroughfare, the Karl Johans gate, between the Norwegian ...

, Norway *

Grand Hotel (Sopot) Grand Hotel in Sopot is a historic five-star hotel located in Sopot, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It currently operates under the name Sofitel Grand Sopot. History The hotel was originally built in 1924–1927 at a cost of 20 million Danzig gu ...

, Poland *

Grand Hotel (Rostov-on-Don) Grand Hotel in Rostov-on-Don is a former hotel located in Rostov-on-Don (city and administrative center of Rostov oblast). It was burned down in 1911. The building of the Grand Hotel (the Kuznetsov hotel, named after Nikolay Kuznetsov, its sec ...

, Russia *

Grand Hotel Europe The Grand Hotel Europe, A Belmond Hotel (russian: Гранд Отель Европа) is a historic Hotel rating, five-star luxury hotel on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg, Russia. History One of the great hotels of 19th-century Europe, ...

, St. Petersburg, Russia *

Hamilton Grand Hamilton Grand is a prominent apartment building in St Andrews, Scotland. The building is located on Golf Place, beside the Old Course. It is seen in the coverage of the many golf tournaments played over the Old Course, and was featured in the ...

, St Andrews, Scotland *

Grand Hotel Kempinski High Tatras The Grand Hotel Kempinski High Tatras is a five-star hotel operated by Kempinski Hotels S.A. located on the shores of Štrbské pleso (''Tschirmer See'') in High Tatras, Slovakia. The hotel was opened in May 2009 after EUR 42 million reconstr ...

, High Tatras, Slovakia *

Grand Hotel Union The Grand Hotel Union ( sl, Grand hotel Union) is a four-star hotel near the centre of the city of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Built about a block from the city's central Prešeren Square between 1903 and 1905, it is notable for having ...

, Ljubljana, Slovenia *

Grand Hotel (Lund) Grand Hotel in Lund, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> ...

, Sweden *

Grand Hôtel (Stockholm) Grand Hôtel is a five-star hotel in Stockholm. It was founded by Frenchman, Jean-François Régis Cadier, in 1872. It opened on 14 June 1874 at the same time as the Grand Hotel in Oslo; all the Scandinavian capitals have a major hotel called ...

, Sweden *

Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden The Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden is a hotel in Saltsjöbaden, Sweden. Built on the initiative of Knut Agathon Wallenberg, it was opened in 1893 by King Oscar II of Sweden. The hotel was owned by the Wallenberg family until 1999, when it was purchased ...

, Sweden *

Grand Hotel Dolder The Dolder Grand (formerly known as Grand Hotel Dolder) is a 5 star superior hotel in the Swiss city of Zürich. It is located on Adlisberg hill, some from, and above, the city centre. Built in 1899, the hotel spreads out over and offers 173 ro ...

, Zurich, Switzerland * Grand Hotel Kronenhof, Pontresina, Switzerland * Grand Hotel (Lviv), Ukraine *

Grand Hotel (Llandudno) The Grand Hotel is a large hotel in Llandudno, Wales, overlooking the Promenade on the North Shore. It is owned by Britannia Hotels. History The history of the Grand Hotel began with the construction of the bathhouse in 1855. In 1858 the Pier ...

, Wales

North America

Canada's grand railway hotels Canada's grand railway hotels are a series of railway hotels across the country, each a local and national landmark, and most of which are icons of Canadian history and architecture; some are considered to be the grand hotels of the British Empir ...

The Grand Doubletree The DoubleTree by Hilton Grand Hotel Biscayne Bay, also referred as The Grand or The Grand DoubleTree, is a high-rise on the north side of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. It lies within the Arts & Entertainment District. It was completed i ...

, condominium and hotel skyscraper in Miami, Florida *

Grand Hotel (Mackinac Island) The Grand Hotel is a historic hotel and coastal resort on Mackinac Island, Michigan, a small island located at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac within Lake Huron between the state's Upper and Lower peninsulas. Constructed in the late 1 ...

, Michigan, listed on the National Register of Historic Places *

Historic Grand Hotels on the Mississippi Gulf Coast In 1870, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was constructed through the southernmost section of Harrison County, Mississippi, connecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama. A northern transportation route into south Mississippi was p ...

, in several Mississippi locations * Grand Hotel (Highmount, New York) *

Grand Hotel (New York City) The Grand Hotel is located at 1232–1238 Broadway at the corner of West 31st Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. History It was built in 1868 and was designed by Henry Engelbert in the Second Empire style. Engleber ...

Entertainment and the arts

* ''Grand Hotel'' (1927 film), a German silent film * ''Grand Hotel'' (novel), a 1929 book by Vicki Baum ** ''Grand Hotel'' (play), a 1931 play by Edward Knoblock based on the novel ** ''Grand Hotel'' (1932 film), a 1932 American film based on Baum's 1929 novel and William A. Drake's 1930 play *** ''Grand Hotel'' (musical), a 1989 Broadway musical based on the 1932 film * ''Grand Hotel'', long-running BBC light music radio programme (1943-1973) * '' Grandhotel'', a 2006 Czech film * ''Gran Hotel'' (TV series), a 2011 Spanish drama television series ** ''Grand Hotel'' (TV series), a 2019 American drama series based on the Spanish series * ''

The Grand Budapest Hotel ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the fiction ...

'', a 2014 film starring Ralph Fiennes

Music

* ''Grand Hotel'' (album), a 1973 album by Procol Harum * ''Grand Hotel'' (musical), a 1989 Broadway musical based on the 1932 film * ''Grand Hotel'' (Roadstar album), a 2006 album by Roadstar * Grand Hotel, initial name of the British band the Quick

Other uses

Grand Hotel Railroad Station Grand Hotel station, MP 41.4 of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, was located in the small mountain hamlet of Highmount, New York, at the summit between Big Indian and Arkville. A turntable was located here, allowing pusher engines to be turned ...

, Highmount, New York *

FC Grand Hotel Varna Women Football Club Varna ( bg, Женски Футболен Клуб Варна), or simple WFC Varna ( bg, ЖФК Варна) is a Bulgarian women's football club from the city of Varna. It was founded in 1982 and competes in the Bulgarian wome ...

, a football club based in Varna, Bulgaria

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