Grand Hotel (Sopot)
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Grand Hotel in Sopot, Poland, originally built in 1924-1927 as the most refined hotel in Sopot - the Kasino Hotel, enchants its guests with lavish style and elegance, this awesome structure was the jewel of Sopot in a time when the city was regarded as the Monaco of the Baltic. The hotel has always been synonymous with style, and the guest book reads like a Who’s Who of 20th century figures.
Actually as the Sofitel Grand Hotel, is located at the seaside of the Gdańsk Bay, in the heart of the town and right next to the sandy beach and in the neighbourhood of the famous Sopot pier and has been the icon of all Tricity (Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot). Sofitel Grand Hotel has been totally refurbished during the last years, the classical athmosphere from the earlier periode is still withheld and the hotel are now both classical and modern. In 2007 it was desided to open Grand Spa by Algotherm, this to maintain the history of Sopot as a Spa resort. The treatments at Grand Spa by Algotherm is offered by highly skilled terapists, educated both in France and Norway. Non or few machines is used in the treatments, this to the philosophy and traditions of the "5 senses" and manually treatment as a tradition of Spa.
Class of the property: *****Palace
[edit] Guest book incl.
- Charles Aznavour, French singer, songwriter and actor
- Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer, singer and dancer
- Fidel Castro, president of Cuba
- Marlena Dietrich, German-born actress, singer, and entertainer
- Greta Garbo, Swedish-born actress
- Charles de Gaulle, general and president of France
- Hermann Goering, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the German Third Reich, commander of the Luftwaffe
- Karel Gott, Czech singer
- Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born leader of the German Third Reich
- Jan Kiepura, Polish-born singer (tenor) and actor
- Annie Lennox, Scottish pop musician and vocalist
- Ignacy Mościcki, president of Poland
- Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran
- Demis Roussos, Egypt-born Greek singer
- Omar Sharif, Egypt-born actor
- Helena Vondrackova, Czech singer
