Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal Voted Budapest’s “Best Luxury” Hotel

CHI Hotels & Resorts (CHI) announced that its superior five-star Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal, a Wyndham Grand Collection hotel, has been voted “Best Luxury” hotel in Budapest, Hungary, and among the ‘Best Service Europe Top 20’ and ‘Best Hotels in the Top 25 World Cities’ by the leading TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice awards 2009.

Winners for the 2009 awards were determined by a combination of TripAdvisor’s Popularity Index and traveler ratings of specific attributes. TripAdvisor’s Popularity Index is a system that determines traveler satisfaction based on a variety of sources, including TripAdvisor hotel reviews and travel articles and opinions from across the web.

The hotel review process also allows travelers to ‘grade’ hotels based on a variety of attributes, including cleanliness, value and suitability for specific types of travelers. The Travelers’ Choice awards, the only honors representing the unbiased opinions of millions of travelers, are among the most coveted awards in the global hotel industry.

The Corinthia Hotel Budapest is a member of the newly repositioned upper luxury Corinthia Hotels brand and of The Wyndham Grand Collection, The hotel was painstakingly restored through the personal initiative of Corinthia Hotels’ founder and the owning company’s (IHI) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Alfred Pisani and is a faithful reconstruction of the 110-year-old Grand Hotel Royal.

It is owned by Malta based International Hotel Investments plc (IHI) and managed by CHI Hotels & Resorts, a hotel operating company that is a joint venture between IHI and Wyndham Hotel Group. Among its many amenities, the Hotel features a majestic ballroom and a unique “Royal Spa” –an extensive Euro 4 million renovation of an original 19th century Spa that has once again regained its rightful place as Budapest’s most luxurious and imposing Spa facility.