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Brown Hotels hotels
Retro interiors and sociable bars shape individual hotels with roots in Tel Aviv’s street life.
Brown Hotels is the Israeli design group Leon Avigad and Nitzan Perry built, starting with a boutique hotel in Tel Aviv in 2010. The atlas files Brown Urban Hotel Tel Aviv, dated 2019, Debrah Brown dated 2022, the Dead Sea hotel dated 2024 with 250 rooms, Lighthouse Athens dated 2022, and Brown Beach House in Trogir, dated 2016.
5 Brown Hotels hotels in 3 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Founded by Leon Avigad and Nitzan Perry
- Worldwide: A Times of Israel profile said the group then had 22 hotels in Israel, nine in Greece, and 45 more in development. A 2024 company interview said Brown owns 28 hotels in southern Europe and operates another 12. The atlas files five: Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea, Debrah Brown, Athens, and Trogir.
- On the atlas: 1 Core Luxury, 4 Near Luxury
History
Brown Hotels is the Israeli design group Leon Avigad and Nitzan Perry built, starting with a boutique hotel in Tel Aviv in 2010. The atlas files Brown Urban Hotel Tel Aviv, dated 2019, Debrah Brown dated 2022, the Dead Sea hotel dated 2024 with 250 rooms, Lighthouse Athens dated 2022, and Brown Beach House in Trogir, dated 2016.
Timeline
- 2007 — Avigad incorporates Brown with Perry, after years as a bellboy and as an executive at Dan Hotels. A 2024 interview dates the consulting start to 2005.
- 2010 — The first hotel under the Brown name opens in Tel Aviv.
- 2016 — Brown Beach House Croatia, in Trogir, is dated 2016 in the atlas, 59 rooms.
- 2019 — Brown Urban Hotel Tel Aviv is dated 2019 in the atlas, 60 rooms.
- 2022 — Debrah Brown in Tel Aviv, 89 rooms, and Lighthouse Athens, 220 rooms, are dated 2022 in the atlas.
- 2024 — Brown Dead Sea Hotel is dated 2024 in the atlas, 250 rooms.
The houses to know
- Brown Beach House Croatia, Trogir, Croatia — The Duhanka, an early-twentieth-century tobacco shipping station on Čiovo, now faces Trogir's UNESCO harbour as Brown Beach House Croatia.
- Brown Dead Sea Hotel, Ein Bokek, Israel — Ein Bokek's resort strip has cycled names for decades on this 250-room Dead Sea property: Daniel from 1990 to 2015, Enjoy from 2016 to 2023, then Brown Dead Sea in 2024, when Brown Hotels rebranded the former Enjoy Dead Sea.
- Debrah Brown, Tel Aviv, Israel — Brown Hotels reopened a 1964 kosher luxury hotel building as Debrah Brown in 2022, fitting 89 rooms into a heritage shell that Architectural Digest flagged among Israel's notable new hotel openings.
- Brown Urban Hotel Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel — Brown Urban Hotel is the result of a 2019 deal in which Brown Hotels bought four Tel Aviv hotels from the Zvieli group and merged two neighbours, Townhouse and Townhouse Apartments, into one 60-room lifestyle hotel.
- Lighthouse Athens by Brown Hotels, Athens, Greece — Brown Hotels converted former La Mirage on Athens' Omonia Square into the 220-room Lighthouse Athens by Brown Hotels in 2021-2022, replacing a downtown hotel that had operated since the 1990s.
Newest openings
- Brown Dead Sea Hotel — Ein Bokek, Israel — dated 2024 in the atlas — 250 rooms.
Opening next
- The Times of Israel profile said 45 hotels were in development in Israel and Greece. Names and years were not listed.
Every Brown Hotels hotel on the atlas
Israel
- Brown Dead Sea Hotel — Ein Bokek · Near Luxury
- Brown Urban Hotel Tel Aviv — Tel Aviv · Near Luxury
- Debrah Brown — Tel Aviv · Near Luxury
Croatia
- Brown Beach House Croatia — Trogir · Core Luxury
Greece
- Lighthouse Athens by Brown Hotels — Athens · Near Luxury
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