The Rebirth of the Berengaria Hotel
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Also present for the tour was BBF Marketing Manager Alina Novitskaya.
Now, you may be curious as to why I was given the tour. Well, I recently published a drone flight around the Berengaria Hotel, and it was seen by one Artem Burtsev. He is a Regional Director at bbf. He got in contact with me because he wanted to give me the opportunity to see the project first hand, so that I could give an informed report on what was happening.
Anyway, as I said, the film will show you the whole tour. It is nearly 50 minutes long, so make yourself a coffee first!
Ok, we have dealt with the "who". The next question is: what are they doing?
What They Are Doing
The entire project is more than just a hotel. There will also be luxurious 4-5 bedroom residences, 2-3 bedroom private lodges and "aristocratic apartments". I don’t know what that means either, but the key thing is that as well as the hotel there will also be more buildings around it. The image above comes from the bbf website dedicated to the Berengaria.
Future Bedrooms
Regarding the hotel itself, it will have 30 bedrooms, which is much less than the original amount. This is because the original hotel had shared bathrooms, which is a non-starter in the modern world. There will also be a number of private apartments within the main hotel.
The bedrooms and apartments will take up the top two floors.
Ground Floor
The ground floor will be where the restaurant and bars will be located. In this shot Andronikos is showing where the kitchen will be. The room up those steps will have its floor lowered to match the main room he is standing in.
New Spa
There will also be a separate spa area and two pools. You can see an artist's impression in this picture, again taken from the bbf site. The pool area behind the hotel is being transformed. The old pool has been removed, and it will be replaced by two new pools and a spa. Currently, the shades you can see by the pool have also been removed. They will need to be replaced though, as they are part of the listed status.
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