Hotel Imperial

The impressive hotel building, carefully embedded in the natural environment of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) and corresponding to the most demanding requirements on spa architecture focused on artistic details and overall comfort, was festively launched in operation on June 18th, 1912.

There are only a very few spa hotels in the world which have hosted so many famous personalities as Hotel Imperial. Some of the famous guests of Hotel Imperial are:

Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov (son of Russian Tsar Alexander II)

Prince Friedrich Leopold (brother-in-law of German Emperor Wilhelm II)

Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria-Tuscany (son-in-law of Emperor Franz Josef I)

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (best known as the benefactor of archaeological excavations in Egypt that lead to the discovery of the famous Tutankhamun’s tomb)

Grand Vezir Hussein Hilmi Pasha

Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa el-Nahhas Pasha

Members of the Rothschild dynasty (Maurice de Rothschild, Henri de Rothschild…)

William Steinway – world-famous piano maker

Prague factory owner Kolben

Jan Antonín Baťa – entrepreneur

Mary Pickford – actress

Douglas Fairbanks – actor

Gustav Machatý – film director

Oskar Straus – Viennese music composer

Seal – singer

Pál Schmitt – Hungarian President (2010 Visegrad Group meeting)

Bronisław Komorowski – Polish President (2010 Visegrad Group meeting)

Ivan Gasparovič – Slovakian President (2010 Visegrad Group meeting)

Václav Klaus – President of the Czech Republic

Miloš Zeman – President of the Czech Republic