The general manager of the hotel, Miloš Cerović, said the hotel website will enable guest to make online reservations from the 27th of September onwards, when the hotel is supposed to be officially opened. But visitors in Ljubljana, who would like to spend a night in the hotel, are welcome to do that starting from today.
The InterContinental in Ljubljana spreads on a surface of around 23,000 square meters and has all the qualities of a luxury hotel. Apart from the 165 rooms with 330 beds, it also offers a 155 square meter presidential suite (one night will cost a couple of thousand euros), a banquet hall and a wellness center with a swimming pool and fitness area. Worth mentioning is also the top class restaurant with a bar and a viewing platform from the highest 20th floor. The restaurant will be open to outside guests as well with a capacity of up to 200 people. In charge of the culinary will be Italian master chef Alfredo Russo, whose Dolce Stil Novo restaurant in Turin boasts having one Michelin star. Russo’s right hand will be Serbian master chef Komnen Bakić.
Wish to attract "another type of guests"
The architectural idea behind the rooms, featuring different Ljubljana motives, was brought up by the Munich-based bureau Wrightassociates. The hotel will employ around 115 people, mostly from Slovenia, including managers coming from other hotels which are part of the InterContinental group. Not that long ago Mr. Cerović said that their highest category hotel in Ljubljana - a city which attracts more and more visitors every year - would like to attract a new profile of guests. Guests accustomed to the standards of elite hotel chains, which the InterContinental is, and which the Slovenian capital lacked until now.

The construction of the hotel at the Bavarski Dvor site began in December 2015. The site was previously a large construction pit left behind by the S1 company, which initially wanted to build one of the two planned skyscrapers as part of the northern city gates. The S1 company then went bankrupt. The investor of the hotel, Delta Holding from Serbia, then purchased the land from its new owner, the Rastoder company. The construction work was carried out by the CGP company.

The value of the whole investment is estimated at around 40 million euros i.e. around 250.000 euros per room.

And by the way, the 20-storey and 83-meter-high InterContinental Hotel is the second highest building in Slovenia, after the Crystal Palace at the BTC City Shopping Centre, and the highest in the centre of Ljubljana.

K. S., MMC; translated by K. J.; photo: Intercontinental