Hotel Grande Bretagne has once again been included in the prestigious Gold List of Condé Nast Traveler amongst the best hotels and resorts for 2025. Notably, it is the only hotel in Athens to receive this distinction and one of just three hotels representing Greece.
GRAND BRETAGNE: CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF TIMELESS LUXURY IN ATHENS
The Gold List is the annual list of editors’ all-time favorite hotels and cruises that exemplify the gold standard of service and hospitality. According to Conde Nast Traveler: “For 31 years the editors of Condé Nast Traveler have been compiling this annual compendium of hotels and cruises we’ve discovered, or fallen in love with all over again. We highlight them not only for their beauty, comfort, or impeccable service, but also because we’ve developed deeply emotional relationships with them: These are the hotels and cruises we recommend to our friends, that we tell stories about later.”
CNT’s editor Rachel Howard specifically mentioned about the Hotel Grande Bretagne: “Celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2024, the GB (as locals fondly call it) is almost as much of an Athenian landmark as the Parthenon. The 5th-century-BC monument itself floats like a mirage just beyond the hotel’s lofty rooftop bar and restaurant, which overlooks the Parliament piazza where statuesque Evzones, members of the Presidential Guard, strut their stuff. If the location feels “only in Athens,” the interiors have all the glitzy trappings of a grand European hotel: gleaming marble inlay floors, flamboyant flower arrangements, giant gilded mirrors. Liveried doormen usher you through the revolving doors into what feels like a parallel universe, where the hubbub of downtown Athens gives way to the tinkling piano in the stained-glass-ceilinged winter garden, where afternoon tea is served by slinky waitresses who glide between the fluted columns. The lesser-known draw is not the fine dining or even the secret seventh-floor swimming pool but the subterranean spa. A profoundly therapeutic massage and plumping 111 Skin facial with one of the brilliantly intuitive therapists will leave you feeling at least 150 years younger.”
The distinction in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2025 Gold List is a particularly significant achievement for Hotel Grande Bretagne, which continues to be a landmark of hospitality for Greece, offering authentic luxury and unforgettable experiences to its guests. The full list of hotels is available on Condé Nast Traveler.
Hotels Grande Bretagne & King George are owned and controlled respectively by Lampsa Hellenic Hotels S.A, subsidiary company of Laskaridis group, and managed by Marriott International, Inc.
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