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Feeling at home while exploring the city in Vienna’s Hollmann Beletage
Main image: The Beletage is a medium-sized room featuring an open space bathroom
Twenty-six modern rooms in an elegant historic Gründerzeit building are situated in the heart of Vienna at the Hollmann Beletage hotel. The unique residence, in walking distance from the famous Stephansdom, focuses on small but important extras making Hollmann Beletage more a home than a hotel.
offering fine food and space to relax: a spa and fitness area, a library and a garden.
TEXT: JESSICA HOLZHAUSEN | PHOTOS: PRESS IMAGES
Up to 60 guests find accommodation in spacious and comfortable rooms and suites in contemporary design, featuring for example freestanding tubs and cosy but modern armchairs.The hotel aspires to be more a home than a hotel, a place people feel at ease and welcome.“This is our motto: Not be but feel at home,”says Kristin Grasser. Together with Katharina Gartner she only recently took over the hotel management from owner Robert Hollmann. Both have been involved in managing the Hollmann Beletage for years.“Our main focus lies on the aspect of living, we basically are not a normal hotel but a kind of luxurious housesharing community,” emphasises Grasser. Whoever searches company in the afternoons and evenings will find it in the shared living room furnished with seat
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groups, featuring a fireplace and piano.The in-house cinema shows Austrian films, well known for their sometimes rather dark humour. “Guests and staff value that we unconventionally break with the hotel industry’s standard patterns and consequently focus on comfort,” says Grasser. But this is only one reason why Hollmann Beletage in Vienna gets top ratings: Viennese authenticity also plays an important role. The hotel’s breakfast for example is one of the best in all ofVienna. Homemade jams, an original Viennese cup of coffee and breakfast trays are served at the table or as room service until 11:30, the hotel’s cook fulfills nearly every additional wish. Hollmann Beletage is a retreat in the middle of an urban jungle,
Above: Meeting other guests in front of a fireplace – the living room (left) Owner Robert Hollmann in the hotel’s relaxing garden (right)
Hollmann Beletage in Vienna is not the only hotel Robert Hollmann and his wife Petra have founded. In 2013 they opened a spa resort hotel in Sri Lanka, the U.T.M.T, Underneath the Mango Tree (www.utmthotel.com), with 22 unique rooms and villas and the same philosophy: A home away from home. Recently they have also started working on three new projects in their chosen home Carinthia. www.hollmann-beletage.at
Portrait: Kristin Grasser (left) and Katharina Gartner (right)