PERSONALITIES

Kessler, Richard

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famoushotels.org/press goes on-line

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Kurt Wachtveitl– 40 years with The Oriental

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Plaza New York 100!

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Hitler’s Hotels

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Hotels thrive on the names of the illustrious guests who’ve graced the premises in years gone by. The guest lists of top hotels often read like a who’s who of modern history, invariably containing infamous names as well as famous ones. And they don’t come much more infamous than Adolf Hitler.

Shanghai: Mansion Hotel

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This is not one of the Most Famous Hotels in the World, but certainly one of the most famous locations. The Mansion Hotel in Shanghai opens:

The Castle at the Lake: Schloss Velden

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Horst Schulze, the man who founded a hotel management group to avoid retirement, and his first General Manager of Schloss Velden: Henning Reichel (right) at the opening ceremony. Reichel left eight months later.
Photograph: Martin Rauchenwald

It is always a great moment when one of the sleeping beauties, dormant Select Members of The Most Famous Hotels in the World, wake up again. On Monday, 28 June, Schloss (Castle) Velden in Austria was reopened by one of the last true hoteliers in the world.

1893: Making The Waldorf

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The year 1893 was a conspicuous and a strange one in American history. A certain holiday mood merged with a general feeling of gloom that was almost akin to despair.

Gunther Kiem (1949-2007)

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Visionary, pioneer and ground-breaking figure - Publisher of Rolling Pin

Forte, Charles †

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Forte started his career as the owner of a London milk bar and went on to create a multi-billion pound worldwide chain of hotels and restaurants. Among the prestigious hotels owned by the company he founded is the Balmoral in Princes Street.

Grand Hotel Sopot (Poland) back

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Historic Hotel on Poland’s Baltic Coast Takes on New Five-Star Identity

2006 at Famous Hotels

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From Putin at the Ritz (Madrid) to Sweeney drawing for The Oriental and Chirac at the Imperial in Vienna, the year 2006 brought us a book launch in Budapest, (Grand Hotel Royal), a G8 meeting at the Grand Hotel Europe in St Petersburg, Bill Clinton in India and ....

By Andreas Augustin