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The hotel's original name was restored in 1989 and it has since been privatized. In popular culture. The Grandhotel Pupp was a major location for the 2006 movie Last Holiday starring Queen Latifah. It also appears in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale as Hotel Splendide in Montenegro.
Jan 13, 2006 · Last Holiday: Directed by Wayne Wang. With Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito. Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to sell all her possessions and live it up at a posh Central European hotel.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Wayne Wang
- 2006-01-13
Last Holiday showcases a variety of picturesque and culturally rich locations that significantly contribute to its charm. Most scenes were filmed in two primary regions—Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, and New Orleans. The crown jewel among these locations is the Grandhotel Pupp, a magnificent five-star hotel in Karlovy Vary.
Activities. 17:24. Grandhotel Pupp is an impressive hotel with a tradition dating back to 1701, located in the historical center of Karlovy Vary, 300 m from the spa colonnade. It offers spacious rooms and suites, a restaurant and exclusive spa centre with medical facilities.
- The History of The Grandhotel Pupp
- The Reconstruction
- How World War II Intervened
- The Film Last Holiday
- Famous Guests Throughout The Centuries
- Features of The Hotel
The history of the Grandhotel Pupp harkens back to 1701 when mayor Deiml had Saxony Hall constructed on the site. The aristocracy took advantage of the stunning hall. Czech Hall (today’s Mirror Hall and Grandrestaurant Pupp) was the next building situated on the property. This time then-current mayor Andreas Becher had it erected. In 1760 a confect...
Reconstruction took place between 1890 and 1907 when Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer redesigned the buildings. The result was a stunning, Neo-baroque Grandhotel Pupp, rebuilt as one large complex rather than individual buildings. Fellner and Helmer also designed Karlovy Vary’s theatre, Market Colonnade, Colonnade Park, and ...
Before World War II the Pupp descendants bought the last building on the premises. Today the Café Pupp stands on this site. After the second world war, things took a turn for the worst as the hotel was nationalized and renamed the Hotel Moskva in 1950. It would not be called the Grandhotel Pupp again until 1989 when democracy came to then Czechoslo...
While a number of movies have been shot at the hotel, two prominent films were shot there in 2006 – Last Holiday and Casino Royale. In the American comedy Last Holiday, Georgia Byrd (played by Queen Latifah) is working in a department store when she finds out that she has a brain tumor and only has a few weeks to live. She decides to spend her rema...
Thousands of famous personalities have stayed here. Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Richard Wagner are some of the master composers who have lived at this hotel. Russian Czar Peter the Great, Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, English King Edward VII, Spanish King Juan Carlos, and Karl Marx have been other past guests. Numerous well-k...
The hotel features the Grandrestaurant Pupp with its remarkable Neoclassical architecture as well as the Café Pupp, where Ludwig van Beethoven resided in 1812. The Club Mala Dvorana has a distinctly 19th-century atmosphere while Becher’s Bar has the appearance of a London bar from the 1920s. Becher’s Bar Rendez-vous boasts a bar with a sun-roofed t...
The Grandhotel Pupp invites guests to the new Pupp Royal Spa wellness centre with pool and saunas. The complex includes a modern fitness centre as well as a private Royal Spa Suite with whirlpool, massage tables, sauna and a relaxation zone. The Pupp Royal Spa offers an extended range of treatments, from traditional procedures based on the ...
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Last Holiday. (2006 film) Last Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Wayne Wang and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film is loosely based on the 1950 British film of the same name by J. B. Priestley. The film stars Queen Latifah as Georgia, a humble department store assistant who is told that she ...
