RIN Grand Hotel is a four-star hotel located in the
Vitan area in
Bucharest
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, Romania. It is located in South – East Bucharest, from one of the largest squares in Europe,
Piaţa Unirii (''Union Square''), and close to the commercial and historical centers and the
București Mall, one of the biggest and most-visited malls in the city.
As of 2022, the Rin Grand Hotel is the
fifth-largest hotel in Europe and the largest hotel in the
European Union
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in terms of room count, having a total of 1,459 rooms.
The modern building has two underground floors and 16 overground floors and a constructed surface area of .
Construction
At first, the hotel was intended to have 1,000 rooms and the building, only 11 floors and the cost would have been around €30 million.
But with the demolition of the
Rossiya Hotel
The Rossiya Hotel (russian: Гостиница «Россия») was a five-star international hotel in Moscow. It was the largest hotel in the world from 1967 to 1980. Until its closure in 2006, it remained the second largest hotel in Europe, ...
in 2006, which was the
second-largest hotel in Europe at the time with 3,182 rooms, the developers saw an opportunity to construct an even larger hotel than initially envisioned and thus the hotel was upgraded to 1,459 rooms and the building heightened to 15 floors.
The construction of the Rin Grand Hotel started in 2006 on a plot of land located in Southern Bucharest in the Vitan area where no major hotel existed at the time. The first 630 rooms were finished in October 2007 and the rest of the 1,459 rooms were finished in March 2008 in time for the
20th NATO Summit held in Bucharest; its invitees occupied 900 rooms.
The hotel was built at a cost of €60 million and is owned by the RIN Group.
Facilities
The RIN Grand Hotel has 1,459 rooms spread over 12 floors. The hotel also has 25 conference rooms with capacities ranging from 18 to 1,000 seats, with the largest having . Its three restaurants include ''La Boema'', which has a capacity of 210 people, and ''Stars'', with a capacity of 650 people. The hotel also features a 1,000 places parking, a
The hotel currently has only 489 room, after some of the rooms were closed and converted into residential apartments.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Romania
This is an incomplete list of high rise buildings in Romania, itemizing 28 buildings in Romania that are or taller. This overlaps with topic of more complete List of tallest buildings in Bucharest, which lists 52 buildings or taller in Buchare ...
References
External links
Official website
{{Tall buildings in Romania
Skyscraper hotels in Bucharest
Hotel buildings completed in 2008