{"id":124406,"date":"2015-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/bucharest-ranks-third-in-a-ranking-of-existing-luxury-hotels\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:44:31","slug":"bucharest-ranks-third-in-a-ranking-of-existing-luxury-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/bucharest-ranks-third-in-a-ranking-of-existing-luxury-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest ranks third in a ranking of existing luxury hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>According to the number of luxury hotels, Bucharest is in third position, after Prague and Budapest, but ahead of Warsaw and Sofia, according to data provided by the market research company STR Global.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The number of luxury hotels does not refer to the total number of 5-star hotels, but to the number of properties that meet a series of global conditions to be considered luxury, according to STR Global officials.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bucharest has seven luxury hotels, half as many as Prague, the most well-known capital in Central and Eastern Europe from a tourism perspective.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThere is an international system according to which luxury hotels are classified, a system established for decades,\u201d said Sorin Ionescu, founder and director of the hotel consultancy company Fivestar Hospitality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to ZF data, the hotels included by STR Global in the luxury category are JW Marriott, InterContinental, Hotel Cismigiu, Hotel Epoque, Hotel Pullman, Radisson Blu, and Athenee Palace Hilton. The Sheraton hotel, which is set to open in the coming period following the renaming of the Howard Johnson hotel, is not included in this category.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zf.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Which hotels in Bucharest are classified as luxury by STR Global?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The list includes JW Marriott, InterContinental, Hotel Cismigiu, Hotel Epoque, Hotel Pullman, Radisson Blu, and Athenee Palace Hilton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does Bucharest compare to other CEE capitals in terms of luxury hotels?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bucharest ranks 3rd in the region, behind Prague and Budapest, but ahead of Warsaw and Sofia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What defines a luxury hotel according to international standards?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Luxury classification is based on a long-standing international system that requires properties to meet specific global criteria beyond just a 5-star rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the number of luxury hotels, Bucharest is in third position, after Prague and Budapest, but ahead of Warsaw and Sofia, according to data provided by the market research company STR Global. The number of luxury hotels does not refer to the total number of 5-star hotels, but to the number of properties that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2852],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-124406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotels-restaurants"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hotelieri-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124406"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=124406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}