Crowne Plaza Belgrade
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Crowne Plaza Belgrade is a four-star hotel located in New Belgrade, Serbia. With its 387 rooms and 29 suites, it is the biggest hotel in the city in terms of capacity.
Crowne Plaza Belgrade | |
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Former names | Hotel Beograd InterContinental (1979–2006) Hotel International CG (2006–2007) Continental Hotel Belgrade (2007–2012) |
Hotel chain | Crowne Plaza |
General information | |
Location | New Belgrade, Serbia |
Address | Vladimira Popovića Street 10 Belgrade 11000 |
Coordinates | 44°48′34″N 20°26′02″E |
Opening | October 1979; 44 years ago (1979-10) |
Renovated | 2003, 2012–2013 |
Owner | Delta Holding |
Management | Delta Holding |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Stojan Maksimović |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 387 |
Number of suites | 29 |
Number of restaurants | 2 |
Opened in 1979 after being built with state funds provided through the Generaleksport (Genex) foreign trade company led at the time by the state-appointed CEO Miki Savićević [sr], the hotel originally operated as Hotel Beograd InterContinental, part of the InterContinental chain.
As Genex fell on hard times throughout the 1990s[1] and especially in the 2000s, it failed to honour the hotel's franchising terms, which led to the loss of the franchising license in 2006.[citation needed]
Afterwards, the hotel re-branded as Hotel International CG for a brief period followed by Continental Hotel Belgrade, in both instances without a foreign brand affiliation, before getting sold to Miroslav Mišković's Delta Holding conglomerate in 2008. Mišković kept the existing setup until striking a deal with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) about using their Crowne Plaza brand. The hotel closed in July 2012 to undergo a major renovation effort before re-opening as Crowne Plaza in December 2013.