Grand Hôtel (Stockholm)

The Grand Hôtel in Stockholm is a 1874 based luxury hotel in the district Blasieholmen. It currently offers 300 rooms, including 31 suites, 24 conference and function rooms and two restaurants, including a gourmet restaurant. The hotel bears the title of royal purveyor and is the only hotel in the Swedish group The Leading Hotels of the World. Owner is Investor AB of the Wallenberg family.

History

According to the Stockholm Exhibition in 1866 it was the lack of hotel capacity in the Swedish capital deliberately. Jean -François Régis Cadier, one since 1852, living in Sweden Frenchman, was commissioned to create a representative large hotel. As an architect he chose Axel Kumlien. The first guests were received in early summer 1874. 1889 came the neighboring Bolinderska palatset to the hotel to 1909, the Grand Hôtel Royal annex with conservatory.

After the Second World War, Marcus Wallenberg began (1899-1982) to care for the hotel industry. In January 1968, he acquired the Grand Hotel in the way of the already dominated by him Carlton hotels. The purchase made ​​sensation and created the staff unrest because the Carlton was much smaller. However, the storm abated, as the true owner was known.