The Rezidor Hotel Group has opened the luxurious Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow. Formerly known as “Hotel Ukraina”, the 206m high building is one of Stalin’s legendary “Seven Sisters” skyscrapers and reopened its doors after an extensive three year renovation – now featuring 506 guest rooms and suites as well as 38 apartments.

 “This hotel is a milestone in Rezidor’s history. It combines Moscow’s rich historical and cultural heritage with the international first class standards Radisson Blu is known for”, says Kurt Ritter, President & CEO of Rezidor.

The Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow is located on a bow of the Moskva River at the conjunction of Kutuzovsky Prospect and Novy Arbat, two of the city’s most prestigious commercial thoroughfares. Within close walking distance from the property there are many notable locations such as the House of Government of the Russian Federation (Russian White House) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Red Square, flanked by the walls of the Kremlin, is within comfortable reach of the Hotel.

 A team of  architects, designers and technicians has meticulously restored the hotel’s exterior and interiors: The 505 rooms and suites (25-370 square meters) as well as 38 serviced apartments (70-120 square meters) are equipped with furniture and accessories of worldwide leading brands such as Baker, Provasi, Florence Art, Citterio, Villeroy & Boch, Penhaligon’s and Etro.

The main restaurant “Veranda” serves contemporary Mediterranean cuisine and classic international dishes, and the “Tatler Club” offers innovative fusion cuisine by famous Russian Chef Arkady Novikov. At “Bono” guests enjoy Italian specialties, “Farsi” features Iranian menus, and “Takasa” on the 31st floor serves sophisticated Japanese delicacies

The hotel also offers the opportunity for a lunch or dinner on the Moskva River via snow-white Yacht Restaurants exclusively designed for the hotel to run on two-hour trips from the hotel along the most picturesque sights of Moscow.

On the first floor, the Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow features the Royal Wellness Club – a 3500sqm exclusive health and fitness centre including a 50m heated indoor pool, gym, a beauty parlor and spa area, thermal baths and massage rooms.

Business guests benefit from spacious meeting rooms and 2 conferencing and banqueting halls with 420 sqm which can host 350 persons for a cocktail reception and 150 persons for a gala dinner.

The rooms and public spaces are decorated with a collection of paintings, which comprises more than 1,200 original master works by Russian artists created in the first half of last century (among them paintings by Vasily Polenov, Julius Klever, Alexander Deineka, Dmitry Nalbandian, Max Birstein, Michael Suzdal'tsev, Nicholas Romadin, and Mikhail Kupriyanov). On the ground floor, the Diorama "Moscow - the capital of the USSR" is a 400sqm scale model of the historical centre of Moscow and its environs from the Luzhniki up to Zemlyanoy Val in the year 1977 when it was created.

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